Nasi Impit and Kuah Kacang

Hey there, 😃! I'm gonna share the recipe of Nasi Impit with Kuah Kacang. But before that, Nasi Impit is often eaten with Kuah Kacang and this food is often eaten and served during the day of Eid al-Fitr (Hari Raya Aidilfitri) in Malaysia. Nasi Impit is a compressed rice whereas Kuah Kacang is the gravy which contain a lot of groundnuts. There is a picture below that shows how Nasi Impit and Kuah look like.

Nasi Impit served with Kuah Kacang

Ingredients for preparing Nasi Impit:

1/2 kilogram of rice

Direction of preparing Nasi Impit:

1) Weave the palm leaves to put the rice into it for about 20 pieces.
2) Wash the rice and put the rice into the woven palm leaves. Then, make a knot at both end of the leaves or in layman term it means tie both the end of the leaves.
3) After that, boil all the the palm leaves that contain rice until nice fragrance can be smelled.
4) Then, take out the palm leaves which contain the rice and let it cool. Basically, this palm leaves that contain the rice that were boiled is called as Nasi Impit.

Note: In Malaysia, it is not necessary to make Nasi Impit using the palm leaves and weaving it as it can be complicated because there are ready-made Nasi Impit sold in Malaysian supermarkets. So, basically can just boil the ready-made Nasi Impit.

Ingredients for preparing Kuah Kacang:

1 kilogram of groundnuts
8 red onions (blend)
4 garlics (blend)
1/2 inch of ginger (blend)
1 tea spoon of anise (blend)
1 tea spoon of coriander (blend)
4 lemon grass (blend)
1 piece of (gula melaka) brown sugar
1/2 tea spoon of salt
1 coconut (get the coconut milk)
1/2 bowl of chillies (blended)
Oil

Direction of preparing Kuah Kacang:

1) Fry the groundnuts until it looks golden in colour. Remove the skin of the groundnut and blend it.
2) Pour few drops of oil into the wok. Put the red onions, garlics, ginger, anise, coriander, lemon grass and chilli. Sauté all of it until nice fragrance can be smelled.
3) Put the groundnuts, coconut milk, brown sugar and salt. After it is well boiled, serve Kuah Kacang with Nasi Impit.

Reference:
ayahzaara, 2015. Bolehkah bayi 6 bulan diberi nasi impit? [online image] Available at: <http://www.mayazaara.com/bolehkah-bayi-6-bulan-diberi-nasi-impit/> [Accessed 9 August 2015].