Recipe: Perfect Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice

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Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice. Dried shrimp is a good ingredient for banchan; side dish. Stir fry it and coat with syrup will result in very crispy texture and sweet taste. Dried shrimp are shrimp that have been sun-dried and shrunk to a thumbnail size.

Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice Korean stir-fried anchovies are sweet, savory, sticky and crunchy! One of the famous fried rices in Malaysia. Spicy and uses anchovies in it. You can have Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice

  1. Prepare 400 gr of cooked rice, put in the fridge at least for 1 hour.
  2. You need 3 of small shallots, minced.
  3. You need 3 of garlic cloves, minced.
  4. It's 2 of lemon grass, white parts, thinly sliced (optional).
  5. It's 2 of green onion, separate the white and green part, thinly sliced.
  6. You need 5 of eye bird chili/Thai chili/jalapeno (omit if do not like spicy), thinly sliced.
  7. Prepare 2 tbs of dried shrimp/anchovy, chopped (can use anchovy paste or anchovy from a can).
  8. It's 3/4 tsp of salt.
  9. You need 1/4 tsp of sugar.
  10. It's as needed of ground white/black pepper,.
  11. It's 2 of large eggs, lightly beaten with 1/8 tsp salt.
  12. You need of Accompaniments (optional) :.
  13. It's of Lettuce.
  14. It's of Cucumber.
  15. Prepare of Roasted duck (left over from dinner).

In a mortar, pound the shallots, garlic, dry shrimps, dry anchovies and chillies into a paste. You can also use a blender or food processor. The Chinese cooking wine is key to this recipe. You can substitute with dry sherry for Japanese cooking sake.

Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice instructions

  1. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a wok..
  2. Saute the shallots, garlic, lemon grass, green onion (white part) and chili until translucent. Add in the dried shrimp/anchovy. Stir for a minute..
  3. Add the rice, and use a metal spatula to flatten out and break up any large clumps. If the rice is cold from the refrigerator, continue stir-frying until the rice is warmed up, which will take about 5 minutes. If the rice was made fresh, cooking time will be faster. Just make sure that the rice isn't too wet, which will make frying it difficult. Sprinkle salt, sugar and ground pepper. Mix it well..
  4. Push the rice aside of the wok. Add 1 tbs oil in the wok. Pour the beaten eggs. Quickly scramble the eggs, then gather all of the rice into the middle of the wok..
  5. Mix thoroughly for another minute or two and give it a taste. Add more seasoning if needed. Sprinkle with green onion (the green part). Mix it..
  6. Transfer to a plate and put the accompaniments on the side. Enjoy!!.

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