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Recipes with kerisik

3 recipes that use kerisik, with photos, step-by-step instructions and cook times. The quickest, Nasi berlauk Kelantan, takes 60 minutes. It is most often cooked with coconut milk, garlic and ginger.

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Laksa JohorSpaghetti in fish and coconut gravy

Laksa Johor is the Hari Raya pride of Johor, where a 19th-century sultan is said to have brought spaghetti home from Europe and married it to a Malay fish gravy. Mackerel is cooked, flaked and ground into a thick coconut sauce with kerisik and spices, and the pasta is topped with raw cucumber, bean sprouts, onion, mint and laksa leaf, with sambal belacan and lime on the side. Families serve it to visitors over the Raya open-house days. Chef's tip: grind the fish very finely; the gravy should be smooth and thick, not lumpy.

120 minMalaysianPasta & NoodlesSpicy
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Bubur asyuraRice, bean and beef porridge

On 10 Muharram, the day of Ashura, Malay mosques and kampung neighbourhoods stir bubur asyura in giant pots and share it out to every household, a custom said to recall the meal Prophet Nuh's family cooked from their last stores. Rice, mung beans, peanuts, sweet potato and pumpkin cook down with beef and spices into a thick, savoury porridge, flavoured with coconut milk and kerisik. This family-sized pot keeps the communal spirit; a vegetarian version is a variation to add later. Chef's tip: stir constantly from the bottom once it thickens, as the beans catch quickly and a burnt bottom spoils the whole pot.

190 minMalaysianRice & GrainsGluten free
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Nasi berlauk KelantanRice with tuna curry

In Kota Bharu and the villages of Kelantan, breakfast stalls open early with trays of nasi berlauk: plain rice with lauk (side dishes) such as a spicy gulai of tuna, a salted duck egg, crisp cucumber and often solok lada, green chillies stuffed with fish and coconut. This home version keeps the heart of it, a rich, tangy fish curry with toasted coconut paste (kerisik). The usual mistake is stirring the fish once it is in the gravy, which breaks it into shreds. Chef's tip: toast the kerisik until it is the colour of milk chocolate; it thickens the gravy and gives the famous east-coast nuttiness.

60 minMalaysianRice & GrainsGluten freeSpicy
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Goes well with kerisik