With a few ingredients it is simple to make rice with dried anchovies in a tasty lunch, a quick stir-fry and your good to go. I had some leftover rice, dried anchovies and last bit of tempeh kering (Indonesian snack) to add an extra crunch to the dish. Have to make a new batch of Tempeh Kering or other dishes with tempeh, I am trying my hand to make tempeh at home. As soon as that experiment works I will post my findings accompanied with a dish.

Dried anchovies are versatile in Asian cooking, they are either used for broths like in Japanese, Korean soup and stews, appetizers. In Chinese home-cooking often combined with fatty dishes as in steamed Chinese style meatloaves. Or deep-fried called Ikan billis it accompanies Nasi Lemak, coconut infused rice wrapped in banana leaves. One of many favourite Singapore/Malaysian dishes. Sambal belacan ikan billis is another one, sambal belacan is a spicy chilli paste which can be added during cooking or eaten as condiment often served with Laksa. The more talk about food and we’re wandering away from our stir-fried rice.

As shown on the photo, these are all the ingredients to start the stir-fry some leftover rice, egg, shallots, garlic, shrimp sauce/paste, chilli-soy paste, soy sauce with  Chinese cooking wine and a heated wok. For the photo I scattered some celery leaves on top, but it is tastier  with coriander and green onions unfortunately all finished it sure was time to shop for groceries too.

Rice with dried anchovies

A quick and easy stir-fry, an assembled dish of various ingredients it has literally a bit of China, Indonesia in it you’ll find the recipe in the box below.