Recipe: Perfect Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice

Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice. Classic Shrimp Fried Rice with fresh shrimp, rice, green onions, peas, carrots, and sesame oil. Tips for making the BEST fried rice! Fried rice works best with chilled leftover rice actually.

Anchovy broth is essential in Korean cooking. Learn the basics of making anchovy broth to enhance flavors of your stews, soups, and other dishes. You can simply use dried anchovies (myeolchi, 멸치) for a quick and simple broth. You can cook Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice

1. You need 400 gr of cooked rice, put in the fridge at least for 1 hour.
2. It's 3 of small shallots, minced.
3. Prepare 3 of garlic cloves, minced.
4. You need 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. You need 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. Prepare of Accompaniments (optional) :.
13. It's of Lettuce.
14. It's of Cucumber.
15. It's of Roasted duck (left over from dinner).

Dried kelp (dashima, 다시마), aka kombu, is the most popular addition. One of the famous fried rices in Malaysia. Spicy and uses anchovies in it. In a mortar, pound the shallots, garlic, dry shrimps, dry anchovies and chillies into a paste.

Dried Shrimp/Anchovy Fried Rice step by step

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!!.

You can also use a blender or food processor. Dried shrimp are shrimp that have been sun-dried and shrunk to a thumbnail size. They are used in many East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian cuisines, imparting a unique umami taste. The fried rice was good, but I have pre-visualized my dreamed fried rice, which looks and taste differently. People often take this shrimp fried rice synonymous to Chinese fried rice, which is not the case.