Nasi bakar

Nasi bakar, Indonesian for burned or grilled rice, is steamed rice seasoned with spices and other ingredients, wrapped in banana leaf and secured with a lidi semat, a small needle made from the central rib of a coconut leaf, and then grilled over a charcoal fire. The scorched banana leaf gives the rice a distinctive aroma, and the parcel is opened at the table when the rice is eaten. It is a relatively new Indonesian dish, developed around the early 2000s and probably derived from nasi timbel, rice wrapped in banana leaves. Many variants exist according to the ingredients, including fried chicken, empal gepuk (fried beef), anchovy, peda fish, milkfish, salted fish, shrimp, mushroom, tempeh, tofu and salted duck egg.