{"id":884,"date":"2025-10-03T08:46:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:46:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:46:55","slug":"nasi-goreng-awan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/nasi-goreng-awan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasi Goreng Awan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What on Earth is that? Indonesian chicken fried rice, with accompaniments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1970, Nasi Goreng was my favourite dinner in the canteen. It was wonderful, and all I can remember about it was that it was chicken fried rice with a fried egg on top. But we had very good Asian cooks in the canteen, so it must have been OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To recreate it, I referred extensively to “Sambal and Coconut<\/a>“, yet another of the cookbooks I really like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a tomato and chilli sambal, which I think could have done with quite a lot more chilli. Home grown tomatoes made it very tasty, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To the left, peanut and lime leaf kerupuk. Centre is the nasi goreng that was not yet on the plates. Right side, a mild pepper and coconut salad, and the sambal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s my plate, after I had added the accompaniments. It was all tasty, with good contrast between the crunchy kerupuk and the tender chicken. Will make again, with more chillis…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What on Earth is that? Indonesian chicken fried rice, with accompaniments. In 1970, Nasi Goreng was my favourite dinner in the canteen. It was wonderful, and all I can remember about it was that it was chicken fried rice with a fried egg on top. But we had very good Asian cooks in the canteen, … Continue reading “Nasi Goreng Awan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[41,35],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-cooking","tag-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}