“It is no wonder that Indonesians eat nasi goreng for breakfast, lunch, and dinner,” says Lara Lee, the author of Coconut and Sambal: Recipes from My Indonesian Kitchen. Leftover rice is ...

asi goreng tek-tek, the street food version of fried rice, is that one dish enjoyed by every Indonesian regardless of background ... There is no one definitive recipe for nasi goreng.

“What I love about nasi goreng is that it was born out of leftover rice,” says Lee. “It’s that no-waste philosophy of Indonesians. There’s always a huge amount of rice on the table every ...

Remove items from your saved list to add more. A good nasi goreng, meaning "fried rice", is no ordinary staple food but a complete meal of flavours, spices, garnishes and accompaniments.