Rating Indonesia's National Dish (Nasi Goreng)

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[Marianopiano]

Indonesian here, this looks great but I've never seen our fried rice with bell peppers (shiz's expensive here plus it's not a local vegetable, I've never seen it in any local dish) or sesame oil

[upright]

"Kecap"

Ketchup: that's not me

[Bloddylosser]

As Indonesian I can confrim that we never cook Fried Rice with regular Onion and Bell Pepper (Only Shallots, and Chilli).

[bubu]

Garlic + shallot + candle nut + chilli (grind them with vegetable oil then cook with low heat in hot pan until its smell nice). Put fridge rice + sweet soy sauce + salt + pepper. Cook in low heat until nicely mixed and rice is warm. Done.

Use sunny side egg, cucumber, tomato, kerupuk (shrimp cracker) as the topping.

[skyline]

Indonesian fried rice rarely uses onion, let alone bell pepper or sesame oil. Use shallot instead, and change bell pepper to cayenne pepper (cabai rawit/keriting/merah).

[eleventhree]

Nasi goreng essentials
1. Kecap manis / sweet soy sauce (depends on the brand some kecap manis are not umami enough, you may need extra condiments like ordinary soy sauce, and oyster/fish sauce
2. Candlenut + shallot + garlic (mince it or make it into a paste, do whatever you want, but the best way is to mortar and pestle it) Onion is optional
3. Caisim
4. Scallions
5. Egg. Cook it before the rice, so the rice will not become mushy
6. The type of Rice is important, a hard grain is preferred, no soft rice. But a day old rice could work too.
Decorate it with cucumbers, dried/fried shallots and tomatoes.
Prawn crackers and Terasi / shrimp paste are optional because not even everyone in Indonesia like it. But i prefer those tiny little shrimps/ebi (acetes sergestidae, called rebon in bahasa Indonesia)
Bird eye chilli is also optional if you want it spicy. Or cayenne
Sesame oil is rarely used, use chicken oil or garlic oil mixed with ebi instead
This is the basic West Java one.
Indonesian fried rice is DRY and crumbly, if it's soggy and mushy then you are doing it wrong.

Lately, I like adding The mi-ayam-style sambal paste 😂 (if you can't find them, here's a quick recipes : minimarket sambal + papaya or Cilembu sweet potatoes)

[just_yarny]

Omg I miss this dish; although I thought chicken sate would be Indonesian’s national dish. The peanut sauce is phenomenal!!!

[Eldrich]

"NO MSG? HAIYAA"

- Asia's most famous uncle

[opposites-]

Indonesian fried rice does not use tomatoes to be fried with rice, but we use them as a complement to pair with cucumber as fresh raw vegetables with sambal or pickles, we only slice it even not dice shape.

[justinli]

2 things:

They don't use shrimp paste by itself; the shrimp paste is used to make the sambal. The sambal is then cooked out first in the pan along with garlic, then egg and other meats, then rice.

Secondly, it's kecap manis, not just kecap. Haven't heard of them ever using sesame oil either, it's usually just sambal (which contains salt and msg) and kecap manis for all the seasoning.

[Myusgan]

Actually we Indonesian didn't use onion and bell pepper in our Nasi Goreng, we use garlic, shallots and candlenut, but your Nasi goreng looks really good
Thanks for making this

[thomas_the_killer]

"Nasi goreng"
Germany:AY DONT COOK MY DAD

[sinulinggajeremia]

Indonesian be like : "Red Bell Pepper, what is that?"

[apol]

Meanwhile in a different universe...
"Can I get some ketchup on my hotdog?"
"Sure!"
**pours soya sauce on hotdog**

[nindramaharani]

As an Indonesian, i really want Uncle Roger's reaction😂

[Not_Velynn]

As a Indonesian, I'm very thankfull you made indo :) and for the forginers "Kecap" Is basically "Sweet Soy Sause" and it taste good!

[rianyt]

In Indonesia something like onion and bell pepper is a bit pricy and hard to get, so local commonly use shallots and garlic.

[deanbenitez]

You just summoned the whole country and foreigners intertwined in this humbling yet delish dish. Thank you from Jakarta, Indonesia.

[zaihanrifki]

No onion in nasi goreng, try shallot and garlic combo + bird's eye chilli or red chilli. And try to beat the egg before or while you fry it, the kecap manis or sweet soysauce as you may say is already correct. Serve nasi goreng with few slices of cucumber and tomatoes.

[durandal]

As an Indonesian, watching this makes me happy especially since i ate nasi goreng alot, because it's delicious, and because my daily budget is only enough for that haha