Nasi kebuli is an Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n style spicy steamed

Steaming

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 rice

Rice

Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...

 dish cooked in goat broth, milk

Milk

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 and ghee

Ghee

Ghee is a class of clarified butter that originated in South Asia and is commonly used in South Asian cuisine....

 and popular among Arab

Arab

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 community in Indonesia and Betawi people in Jakarta

Jakarta

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. Nasi kebuli was influenced by Arab culture and its origin can be traced to Middle eastern cuisine

Middle Eastern cuisine

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, especially Yemeni Arabian influence, and also Indian cuisine

Indian cuisine

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 influence. It is thought to be related or derived from biryani

Biryani

Biryani, biriani, or beriani is a set of rice-based foods made with spices, rice and meat, fish, eggs or vegetables. The name is derived from the Persian word beryā which means "fried" or "roasted"....

 rice.

In Betawi culture nasi kebuli usually served during Islamic religious festivities, such as hari raya lebaran

Eid ul-Fitr

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, kurban or maulid nabi

Mawlid

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 (birthday of prophet Muhammad

Muhammad

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). Nasi kebuli also popular in cities with significant Arab descendants, such as Surabaya

Surabaya

Surabaya is Indonesia's second-largest city with a population of over 2.7 million , and the capital of the province of East Java...

 and Gresik.

Preparation

Nasi kebuli is made by cooking rice soaked in goat meat broth

Broth

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 with milk

Milk

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 or coconut milk

Coconut milk

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 instead of water. The goat meat later cooked and mixed with sauteed spice mixture in ghee

Ghee

Ghee is a class of clarified butter that originated in South Asia and is commonly used in South Asian cuisine....

 oil. The spices are made from ground garlic

Garlic

Allium sativum, commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion genus, Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, and rakkyo. Dating back over 6,000 years, garlic is native to central Asia, and has long been a staple in the Mediterranean region, as well as a frequent...

, shallot

Shallot

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, ginger

Ginger

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, black pepper

Black pepper

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, clove

Clove

Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae. Cloves are native to the Maluku islands in Indonesia and used as a spice in cuisines all over the world...

, coriander

Coriander

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, caraway

Caraway

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, cardamom

Cardamom

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, cinnamon

Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods...

, nutmeg

Nutmeg

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 and ghee

Ghee

Ghee is a class of clarified butter that originated in South Asia and is commonly used in South Asian cuisine....

. Then the goat meat with spices is cooked together with half cooked rice in milk until completely cooked. Nasi kebuli usually served with asinan

Asinan

Asinan is a pickled vegetables or fruits dish, commonly found in Indonesia. The term asin is Indonesian word for "salty", which explain the process of preserving the ingredients through soaking it in the solution of salt water. Asinan is quite similar to rujak, the difference is rujak usually...

 nanas (pineapple

Pineapple

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 in spicy and sour sauce) or sometimes also topped with sambal goreng hati (cow liver is spicy sambal

Sambal

Sambal is a chili based sauce which is normally used as a condiment. Sambals are popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and Sri Lanka, as well as in the Netherlands and in Suriname through Javanese influence. It is typically made from a variety of chili peppers and is...

 sauce).

See also

• Nasi bogana
  Nasi Bogana
  Nasi Bogana or Nasi Begana, pronounced as Nah-see Boh-gâna, is an Indonesian style rice dish, originally from Tegal, Central Java. It is usually wrapped in Banana leaves and served with a variety of side dishes....
  
  
• Nasi campur
• Nasi goreng
  Nasi goreng
  Nasi goreng, literally meaning "fried rice" in Indonesian, can refer simply to fried pre-cooked rice, a meal including stir fried rice in small amount of cooking oil or margarine, typically spiced with kecap manis , shallot, garlic, tamarind and chilli and accompanied with other ingredients,...
  
  
• Nasi kucing
  Nasi kucing
  Nasi kucing is an Indonesian rice dish that originated from Yogyakarta, Semarang, and Surakarta but has since spread. It consists of a small portion of rice with toppings, usually sambal, dried fish, and tempeh, wrapped in banana leaves.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Nasi kuning
  Nasi kuning
  Nasi Kuning is an Indonesian rice dish cooked with coconut milk and turmeric, hence the name nasi kuning . Nasi kuning might come in the form of a cone called a tumpeng and is usually eaten during special events...
  
  

• Nasi lemak
  Nasi lemak
  Nasi lemak is a dish sold in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Riau Islands and Southern Thailand. The dish is considered the national dish and a national heritage of Malaysia. It is not to be confused with Nasi Dagang sold on the east coast of Malaysia or Terengganu and Kelantan although both dishes...
  
  
• Nasi liwet
  Nasi liwet
  Nasi liwet is a kind of food from Solo, Central Java. As we know, rice is usually cooked in water, but nasi liwet is rice cooked in coconut milk. This is a traditional Javanese way of cooking, from the past until now. In the past, the pan used for cooking was made of clay...
  
  
• Nasi pecel
  Nasi pecel
  Nasi pecel is a Javanese rice dish served with pecel . The vegetables are usually kangkung or water spinach, long beans, cassava leaves, papaya leaves, and in East Java often used kembang turi. It tastes best when eaten with fried tempeh and traditional cracker called peyek...
  
  
• Nasi uduk
• Nasi ulam
  Nasi ulam
  Nasi ulam is a steamed rice dish mixed with various herbs, especially the leaves of pegagan or often replaced with kemangi , vegetables, spices and accompanied with various side dishes...
  
  

External links

• Nasi Kebuli recipe (in Indonesian)