Monday, April 20, 2020

Want to try

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:

Twilight Man said...

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.

suituapui said...

You liked it? I've tried before...a few times but I did not get too excited about it.

Reanaclaire said...

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!

PH said...

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.

mun said...

Must be very tasty! Dabai is your local olives so must taste nice though I have not tasted it before.

Libby said...

Dabai is something new to me. I had eaten olive fried rice before.

Ezvina said...

I prefer to use salted dabai for fried rice.

The Happy Whisk said...

Yum. I love olives. When I have them, they make my tummy smile.