Tropical Zone Gardening: OK...Malaysian Cooking...., 1 by heavenscape

heavenscape wrote:
Another use of the banana leaf.
This is a "dulang" (tray) of "nasi lontong" (rice) packets. My brother's specialty, made only for the Malay New Year. He'd cut out the sizes he need, "smoke" them individually over a charcoal brazier, to make them more pliable. Shape them into loaves with one end closed, filled them halfway with washed short grain rice and closed the other ends before cooking them for about 8 hours, using charcoal.
He also believes that smoking them first, will impart a nice scent to the rice.
Terima Kaseh, Carol.