my favourite food....nasi kerabu

The most popular food in my homestay, Kelantan is “Nasi Kerabu”. “Nasi Kerabu” is a simple food at Kelantan but it is to difficult to prepare and basically this food is present at any small gathering like birthday party, and thankfulness gathering. The main ingredient used are pickled-fish, concubines, thick coconut, fried coconut or kerisik, fish, colouring likes blue, sweetmeat or sugar melaka , lemon grass, spices such as ginger, shallot, chilies, garlic, fresh, sugar, salt, and condiment and the important thing is fish sauce or in Kelantan, we call it “budu”. This food is contain 4 types of dishes that we have to eat in one plate. That why we call “Nasi Kerabu”. We mixed them and eat together. Firstly, we have to cook rice. It rice is very strange because their colour is blue. When we want to cook this rice, we must to put ginger, a little bit of sugar and salt, 3 pieces of lemon grass and also colouring of blue. Secondly, we should to prepare their sauce. We put a small of ginger, a some of garlic and shallot, chilies, sweetmeat or sugar melaka and a little bit of sugar and salt into coconut milk. Then we have to grind them and then cook them and lastly put in some of water.After that, we have to prepare sauté spicy dish. Firstly, we must to get fried coconut or kerisik. Then, we have to boil fish and then mixed them. Finally, we have to prepare concubines. We can use cucumber, long bean, and bean sprout. We have to cut of them in a small size and look that very beautiful state. “Nasi Kerabu” is already done to eat after 4 types of dishes is done. We also can eat this food with fried chicken, fried fish or eggs to make this food more delicious and fun to eat.