13th November 2024

I am off of work for the next few days and so today was long and really busy trying to finish up lots before not being around so tonight needed to be a quick meal.  We are still working through the Ottolenghi Comfort book and nasi goreng really stood out.  I love nasi goreng, first discovering it in Eleanor Ford’s Fire Islands book and so was really excited to make this.  The biggest difference with the recipes is that Eleanors one is vegetarian and just uses up whatever vegetables you have lurking, whereas Ottolenghi’s is prawn based.

There was much to enjoy about this, I liked the spicy paste idea for the rice and loved the spicy ketjap manis.  It was super delicious and so if you don’t need or want your fried rice to be veggie then it is a nice choice.  This was all polished off very quickly, including by Matt who seemingly loved it.