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Nasi Katok

Name: Nasi Katok
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Brunei
Ingredients: 2 bowls Cooked rice; 2 Chicken Thigh; 1 clove Garlic; 1 knob Ginger; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 1/2 tsp Ground Coriander; 2 tbsp Potato Starch; To taste Oil for frying; 3 Red Chili Pepper; 1/2 Onion; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Rice

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐

White rice with fried chicken and sweet-spicy sambal wrapped in paper — Brunei's cheap, easy national snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Nasi katok means 'knock rice,' said to come from the old practice of knocking on a shop's door late at night to buy it. It's a simple meal of just white rice, spiced fried chicken, and sweet-spicy sambal wrapped in paper. Cheap and easy, some shops are open 24 hours — it's Brunei's soul food.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a small shop on a Brunei street corner at night, rice packets folded into paper triangles are handed over one after another as people take them home by car.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Cooked rice 2 bowls
Chicken Thigh 2
Garlic 1 clove
Ginger 1 knob
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Ground Coriander 1/2 tsp
Potato Starch 2 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste
Red Chili Pepper 3
Onion 1/2
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the chicken into large pieces, rub with grated garlic, ginger, turmeric, coriander, and salt, and let stand 30 minutes.
Coat with potato starch and fry in 170°C oil for 7 minutes until crisp.
Grind the chili and onion, fry in oil, and add the sugar and salt to make a sweet-spicy sambal.
Put rice on a plate or paper and add the chicken and sambal.
Wrapping it in paper to take away is the Brunei way.

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