I always want to try cooking this dish since tasted it few years ago. Dabai fried rice.
I loved the taste of our local olive in the fried rice. It gave the rice a different taste and flavour. Not many people cook and sell this over here. The few places I knew have since closed down.
It happened that I had some frozen dabai in the freezer, so being adventurous and bold, I tried cooking dabai fried rice during the MCO.
It was actually very easy recipe with few ingredients only. The star of this dish was this local black olive. I thawed the fruits since they were frozen. Once thawed, they will soften and ready to be eaten.
I peeled off the flesh from its seed. Mine was red flesh. Another colour was yellow flesh.
Then I chopped the flesh further with knife. Tip from an Iban friend was to fry the flesh first. I only knew that after I cooked this so I will try to fry it first before adding to the rice next time.
Ingredients:
Overnight rice
1 big onion, sliced
Half cup of anchovies
1 cup of dabai flesh
Salt
Chopped spring onion
Cooking oil
Methods:
1. Fry dabai flesh with little oil in pan. (optional)
2. Mix rice with some salt.
3. In a wok, heat up about 5 tbsp cooking oil. Saute onion until fragrant and browned. Add in anchovies and fry for a minute.
4. Add in dabai and stir well.
5. Add in rice and stir well to mix.
6. Dish out and garnish with spring onion.
8 comments:
I have heard of dabai so many times but yet to try it. You mentioned local olive. That means it's not sweet like dates but similar to olive tastes. I will hunt for dabai in our wet markets next time.
You liked it? I've tried before...a few times but I did not get too excited about it.
Don't have dabai over here and I also don't know what and how it taste like.. but it looks good though. I like trying out new dishes!
I ate dabai fried rice once at a hotel buffet when I was attending a seminar. But I did not get an impression of the taste as there was not much dabai in it.
Must be very tasty! Dabai is your local olives so must taste nice though I have not tasted it before.
Dabai is something new to me. I had eaten olive fried rice before.
I prefer to use salted dabai for fried rice.
Yum. I love olives. When I have them, they make my tummy smile.
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