This dish, originally from Kelantan, has a purplish-blue rice made with colour of the blue pea flower. It is topped with fried or grilled chicken, a salad with spicy serundeng, crackers, salted egg, sambal, and a sauce made with fermented anchovies called Budu. They sometimes include Sodok Lada, a green chilli stuffed with pepper grated coconut and fish paste.
Nasi Kerabu
Masakan Anak Bujang
1 Bedok Rd #01-25, Bedok Food Ctr (Map) 9am – 7pm Thurs
Herman was an "office worker" before he upped and left for Kelantan to learn the ways of cooking Nasi Kerabu, a light coconut rice coloured by blue pea flower ("not colouring", he reminds us he uses the real flower for it), with chopped raw herbs and vegetables, spooned over with budu (a fermented anchovies sauce from Kelantan), serunding (roasted grated coconut) and a tangy and refreshing vinegarish sambal. He serves exactly that in this stall opened in 2019. You can choose to top it with fried chicken or fish or both, plus solok lada, a fish and grated coconut paste with pepper stuffed in a grilled green chilli. Those pieces of fish crackers are so right for the whole dish too.
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