The Malay cuisine is a blend of traditional dishes from Malaysia with strong influences from the Sumatra and Java. Like the Chinese cuisine, rice is also the staple food, which helps neutralize spicy cuisine. For religious reasons, pork is never used in Malay and Indonesian cuisine.

Ingredients Commonly used

Coconut

Belacan

Spices & Herbs

coconutCoconut is an essential ingredient when cooking Malay dishes. The coconut flesh is grated and squeezed to make coconut milk, which is used in gravies, as well as in cakes, drinks, and desserts. Freshly grated coconut is also sprinkled over cakes.

BelacanBelacan is another important ingredient in Belacan is another important ingredient in the Malay cuisine. It is a pungent dried the Malay cuisine. It is a pungent dried shrimp paste, which is often combined with shrimp paste, which is often combined with pounded fresh chilies to make Sambal pounded fresh chilies to make Sambal Belacan. The Sambal Belacan acts more as a Belacan. The Sambal Belacan acts more as a sauce to add extra taste to any dish.sauce to add extra taste to any dish.

Spices & herbs

Malay dishes use a variety of spices to give them their characteristically piquant, spicy flavor. These various herbs are skillfully blended into dishes, gravies, soups, and sauces. Fragrant herbs, such as the kaffir lime leaf and lemon grass, shallots and garlic, ginger and galangal, are used. Dried spices include coriander, tamarind, turmeric, saffron, and cumin.

Malay Dishes

Satay

Beef Rendang

Ayam Goreng

Nasi Lemak

SataySatay

One of the most well-known and One of the most well-known and popular Malay dish. Pieces of popular Malay dish. Pieces of mutton, beef, or chicken are mutton, beef, or chicken are skewered over charcoal and eaten skewered over charcoal and eaten with a rich peanut sauce, sliced with a rich peanut sauce, sliced cucumber, onions, and chunks of cucumber, onions, and chunks of compressed rice known as compressed rice known as ketupat.ketupat.

Beef RendangSpicy Indonesian beef dish in a almost dry coconut sauce. Suitable as a main or side dish. Large chunks of beef are cooked with lashings, spices and herbs. It is another hearty, and very spicy, favorite among Singaporeans.

Ayam GorengAyam Goreng

This is a popular chicken dish, simply This is a popular chicken dish, simply meaning fried chicken. The chicken is meaning fried chicken. The chicken is marinated with various spices like marinated with various spices like turmeric and curry powder. It is then turmeric and curry powder. It is then deep fried in hot oil and served.deep fried in hot oil and served.

Nasi LemakNasi LemakDelicious coconut rice, served with anchovy hot chili sauce, fried anchovies, fried peanut, sliced cucumber or tomato and hard-boiled egg. Lemon juice can be used for chili paste instead of tamarind juice.

Kueh

Kueh Lapis

Kueh talam

Serimuka

Bengka ubi

Kueh koci

Kuehs come in different shapes, colours, texture and designs. Some are filled, coated, wrapped, sliced and layered. Most kuehs are steamed, boiled or baked. They can also be deep-fried, and sometimes even grilled.

Kueh LapisKueh LapisIt is a rich layered cake consisting of thin alternating layers made of butter, eggs and sugar, piled on top of each other. Each layer is laid down and baked separately, making the creation of a kueh lapis an extremely laborious and time-consuming process.

Kueh TalamKueh TalamIt is a tray cake consisting of two layers. The top white layer is made from rice flour and coconut milk, while the bottom green layer is made from green pea flour and extract of pandan leaf.

SerimukaSerimukaIt has two layers; a bottom layer of It has two layers; a bottom layer of sweet glutinous rice and a top sweet glutinous rice and a top layer of pandan-flavoured custard. layer of pandan-flavoured custard.

Bengka UbiBengka Ubi

It is a baked kueh of tapioca mixed in It is a baked kueh of tapioca mixed in sweet pandan-flavoured custard, sweet pandan-flavoured custard, grated coconut and brown sugar. grated coconut and brown sugar. Bengka Ubi, also known as “Tapioca Bengka Ubi, also known as “Tapioca Cake“. Cake“.

Kueh kociKueh koci

It is a pyramid of glutinous rice flour It is a pyramid of glutinous rice flour filled with tender coconut, steamed filled with tender coconut, steamed wrapped in a banana leaf and served wrapped in a banana leaf and served in rich syrup of gula melaka (Melaka in rich syrup of gula melaka (Melaka palm sugar).palm sugar).

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