page_title: Nasi goreng
section_title: Malaysia
hierarchical_section_title: Nasi goreng / Variations / Malaysia
caption_attribution_description: English: A cook making fried rice in Kota Kinabalu food market at dusk.
context_page_description: Nasi goreng, literally meaning "fried rice" in both the Indonesian and Malay languages, is an Indonesian rice dish with pieces of meat and vegetables added. It can refer simply to fried pre-cooked rice, a meal including stir fried rice in a small amount of cooking oil or margarine, typically spiced with kecap manis, shallot, garlic, ground shrimp paste, tamarind and chilli and accompanied by other ingredients, particularly egg, chicken and prawns. There is also another kind of nasi goreng which is made with ikan asin which is also popular across Indonesia. Nasi goreng is sometimes described as Indonesian stir-fried rice, although it is also popular in Southeast Asia. Beyond the Malay Archipelago, it has gained popularity through Indonesian influence in Sri Lanka and via Indonesian immigrant communities in Suriname and the Netherlands. It is distinguished from other Asian fried rice recipes by its aromatic, earthy and smoky flavor, owed to generous amount of caramelised sweet soy sauce and powdered shrimp paste, and the taste is stronger and spicier compared to Chinese fried rice.
  Nasi goreng has been called the national dish of Indonesia, though there are many other contenders.
context_section_description: Nasi goreng is a commonly popular household dish in Malaysia. It is also can be found in restaurants and food courts in the country.
  Nasi goreng variants popular in Malaysia includes:
  Nasi goreng ayam (fried rice usually served with crispy fried chicken with sweet chilli sauce)
  Nasi goreng belacan (fried with leftover sambal belacan and fish or other meats)
  Nasi goreng blackpepper (fried rice with chicken or beef in blackpepper sauce)
  Nasi goreng cendawan (fried rice cooked with mushrooms)
  Nasi goreng cili api/masak pedas (spicy fried rice served with chicken/beef)
  Nasi goreng dabai (a Sarawak speciality which the rice is fried with a seasonal native fruit called 'buah dabai').
  Nasi goreng daging/kambing (fried rice with beef or mutton)
  Nasi goreng ikan masin (fried with salted fish)
  Nasi goreng kampung (fried with anchovies/leftover fried fish, kangkong)
  Nasi goreng kerabu (fried rice with local salads)
  Nasi goreng kunyit (fried rice served with turmeric and meat with onions, long beans and carrots)
  Nasi goreng kari (fried rice cooked with curry)
  Nasi goreng ladna (fried rice cooked with seafood and vegetables in white gravy)
  Nasi goreng masak merah (fried rice with chicken or beef in chilli gravy)
  Nasi goreng mamak (Indian Muslim style nasi goreng)
  Nasi goreng nenas (fried rice cooked with pineapples)
  Nasi goreng paprik (fried rice served with paprik dish, usually chicken)
  Nasi goreng pattaya (fried rice in an omelette envelope, sometimes includes chicken)
  Nasi goreng petai (fried rice cooked with parkia speciosa)
  Nasi goreng seafood (fried with prawn, calamari slices and crab sticks)
  Nasi goreng sotong (fried rice cooked with calamary)
  Nasi goreng telur (fried rice served with fried eggs)
  Nasi goreng tomyam (fried rice cooked in tomyum paste)
  Nasi goreng udang (fried rice cooked with prawn)
  Nasi goreng USA (fried rice with three luxury ingredients namely prawn (udang), squid (sotong) and chicken (ayam))
  Nasi goreng Amerika (with fried egg and stirred fried beef in chili sauce)
caption: A cook making nasi goreng in a food market in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
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