Nasi Kerabu – Famous Malaysian Cuisine

Nasi Kerabu – Famous Malaysian Cuisine

Blue rice! Surely that’s the stuff of children’s storybooks? Not in Malaysia! Nasi kerabu is rice dyed blue with butterfly pea flowers (bunga telang), which are used as a natural food colouring in sweet and savoury dishes. Nasi kerabu means “rice with salad” in Malay, referring not to the unusual, pale-blue rice but the pairing…