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.