About this dish
Fragrant glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, served with a rich fish curry, an East Coast specialty.
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Ingredients
🍚2 cups glutinous rice, soaked
🥥2 cups coconut milk
🐟400g tuna, for curry
🌶️3 tbsp curry paste
Method
Serves 31
Steam the soaked glutinous rice with coconut milk and fenugreek seeds until tender.2
Sauté curry paste until fragrant, then add tuna and coconut milk.3
Simmer the fish curry until the fish is cooked and the sauce thickened.4
Plate the rice with the fish curry on top.5
Serve with pickled vegetables (acar).✓ What Makes it Authentic
Nasi dagang is a specialty of Malaysia's East Coast states, notably Terengganu and Kelantan.
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