Grany's Nasi Uduk

One of the best foods from Indonesia is Nasi Uduk. Nasi uduk is a food made from rice that is prepared similar like nasi lemak. It is cooked by heating coconut milk in a pan with lemon grass, pandan leaf, and bay leaf then, we use the mixture to cook the rice. Nasi uduk is usually eaten with spices fried chicken, omelet egg, caramelized tempe and chips, and last but not least the nasi uduk’s sambal.

For me, the best nasi uduk that I have ever eaten in my life is my grandmother’s nasi uduk. Once in every two weeks on the Friday, my grandmother always cooks nasi uduk for lunch. It was in my fourth grade when I was starting to help my grandmother. First thing in the morning, we will go to a market located near my house. In the market, we will buy chicken, coconut, peanuts, and some herbs and spices. Then we will go home to do the cooking. As a child, I cannot cook anything; I cannot touch the tools because it was hot, so when my grandmother cooks the nasi uduk and spices fried chicken, I will be in charge of making the sambal. The sambal for nasi uduk is a little different from the normal fried chicken sambal, because, it uses crushed peanuts to give the texture. The best part of making the sambal is when my grandmother is done frying the peanuts and I started to crush it. The peanuts were crushed by a peanuts grinder. For me as a child, it was the happiest things to do. It was like playing a game for me. Everyday I always wait for the next friday that my grandmother will cook nasi uduk again.

And that is the first time I tried to make some food, although it was just a sambal. But, I still can remembered how happy I was when I to go to market, looking at raw ingredients there, and the filling when I grinded the peanuts