Nasi lemak – home-style vegetarian variation

  • Vegetarian
  • Lactose free
  • Gluten free

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for breakfast
  • Good for lunch
  • Good for dinner

Four servings of a home-style vegetarian nasi lemak variation: coconut rice with egg, peanuts, cucumber and spicy onion sauce, without dried anchovies.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,640 g

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Ingredients

  • 300 gRice, white, long-grain, regular, raw, unenriched
  • 350 gCoconut milk, used in cooking
  • 350 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 240 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
  • 60 gPeanuts, all types, dry-roasted, without salt
  • 180 gCucumber, with peel, raw
  • 140 gOnions, raw
  • 250 gTomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average
  • 12 gPeppers, hot chili, red, raw
  • 20 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 2 gSalt, table
  • 1,200 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking not counted – removed

Method

  1. Rinse rice, cover with coconut milk and water, season and bring to a boil. Cook covered for 18 minutes at 90 °C, then rest 10 minutes; it should be fluffy and fragrant.
  2. Lower the eggs into 1,200 g boiling water and cook for 8 minutes; drain the water, cool and peel the eggs. Dry-roast peanuts for 3 minutes at 160 °C.
  3. Fry onion, chilli and tomatoes in the oil for 5 minutes at 170 °C until thick. Divide rice with eggs, peanuts, sauce and cucumber slices.

Recipe tradition

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
2,905 kcal
Protein
79.3 g
Fat
158.9 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
304.1 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
23.1 g
Saturated fatty acids
89.6 g
Sodium
1,224.2 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
3.1 g

Per serving

Energy from macronutrients
Protein: 19.8 g, 11%Fat: 39.7 g, 48%Total carbohydrate (by difference): 76 g, 41%726.3 kcalper serving
  • Protein19.8 g11%
  • Fat39.7 g48%
  • Total carbohydrate (by difference)76 g41%

Share of energy from protein, fat and carbohydrate (4 / 9 / 4 kcal per g), not share by weight.

Energy
726.3 kcal
Protein
19.8 g
Fat
39.7 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
76 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
5.8 g
Saturated fatty acids
22.4 g
Sodium
306.1 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.77 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
177.1 kcal
Protein
4.8 g
Fat
9.7 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
18.5 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
1.4 g
Saturated fatty acids
5.5 g
Sodium
74.6 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.19 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • Some ingredient quantities use documented estimates or household-measure assumptions.
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Egg, Peanuts

May contain: Sulphites

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal
  • USDA FoodData Central FNDDS (2021-2023) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central FNDDS. · CC0 1.0 Universal