Friday, September 12, 2008

Bojari Rice by Chef Faizal from Rempah Ratus Nasi Lemak Restaurant

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Chef Mohd. Faizal is just only 34years old, a young innovative chef with more than 10years experience in culinary, specialising in malay cooking and heading the kitchen of Rempah Ratus Restaurant. He also had been working in many kitchen through his culinary journey such Genting Highland Resort, Pearl International Hotel, Summit Hotel and Mines Beach Resort.

One of the things that he can't do without till today is his set of knives which had been following him all this 10years. He loves cooking especially having the chance to cook for Tun Mathir and also some royalty families but his top celebrity fan is his own mother! He advices young chefs to be more motivate, focus and dedicated to their work. One of Chef's wishing list is to able to work with Chef Gordon Ramsey one day!

Here is the recipe that Chef Faizal would like to share with us, Bojari Rice.

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Bojari Rice (for 2-3person)

Ingredients
A

500gm Rice
B
100gm Onion
80gm Garlic
50gm Ginger
80gm Lemongrass
80gm Candlenut
80gm Dried Shrimp
10gm Tumeric
C
150gm Ghee Oil
1.2litre Water
20gm Ginger Flower
8gm Screw Pine Leaf
30gm salt

Method
1. Blend ingredient B
2. Wash the rice
3. Saute blended ingredients till fragrant in a pot with ghee oil.
4. Add in rice, salt and screw pine leaf.
5. Add in water
6. Cook for 20minutes or until rice cooked.
7. Before serving, sprinkle the chopped ginger flower


OTAK-OTAK(Steam Fish Paste with Egg, Herbs & Spices)

Ingredients
A
500gm Fish Paste
B
50gm Onion
20gm Garlic
20gm Ginger
40gm Lemongrass
50gm Candlenut
C
50gm Dried Cilly(soaked and blend)
4nos Egg
10gm Rice Flour
5gm Tumeric Leaf
10gm Salt

Method
1. Blend all the ingredients B
2. All all the ingredients
3. Pour in a flat mould which had been layered with banana leaf.
4. Wrapped the mould with plastic wrapper.
5. Steam for 30minutes


Fried Chicken Rempah Ratus

Ingredients
A
1kg Chicken (cut into desire size)
B
100gm Onion
50gm Garlic
50gm Ginger
80gm Candlenut
50gm Lemongrass
30gm Fresh Tumeric
3gm Lime Leaf
C
40gm Dried Chilly(soaked and blended)
20gm Salt
10gm Sugar
2nos Egg

Method
1. Blend all the ingredient B
2. Mix all the ingredients.
3. Marinate the chicken for at least 3 hours before deep frying.
4. Fry till golden brown.

4 comments:

Family First said...

aiyoh ... after my long long search i finally find a bojari rice recipe! I loooove the Mdm Kwan version .. hope it taste similar!

anne said...

Thanks for sharing chef, been looking for the recipe for sometime now.....shall try it!

Kana said...

This is new to me :) Where is his restaurant located?

pixen said...

I'm forwarding your URL to my sister who's cuckoos with Mdm Kwan's Nasi Bojari. I hope that will save her before her hands 'Bo Jari' :-D Would you believe I haven't eat it before :-P Maybe I should try Chef Faizal's recipe on her ;-)

Thanks guys for posting the recipe!