Nasi bakar: Nasi bakar, a seasoned and spiced rice cooked (grilled) inside banana leaf, served with ayam goreng (fried chicken) with mushroom, vegetables, and spicy chilli sambal. Jakarta, Indonesia
Nasi bakar: Nasi bakar, a seasoned and spiced rice cooked (grilled) inside banana leaf, served with ayam goreng (fried chicken) with mushroom, vegetables, and spicy chilli sambal. Jakarta, IndonesiaGunawan Kartapranata (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gunkarta) — Own work via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ANasi_Bakar_Ayam.JPG)CC BY-SA 3.0
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Nasi bakar

An Indonesian rice dish of steamed, spiced rice wrapped in banana leaves, tied with lidi semat and grilled over charcoal, giving the leaf a burnt aroma. Developed in the early 2000s, probably from nasi timbel.

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The burned banana leaf produced a unique aroma on the rice. The banana leaf package is opened upon consumption. It is a relatively newly developed Indonesian dish around the early 2000s, probably derived from nasi timbel rice wrapped in banana leaves.

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