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Friday, March 06, 2009

Salted Chinese Olive Fried Rice





Chinese olives taste different than Western olives. There is a hint of five spice and very little of the Mediterranean flavor tones. The olives come in two forms, canned with pits and dry packed. Not to be obvious, but if you get the canned ones, you will have to pit it yourself before you cook with them. The dry packed ones look more like a paste than individual olives. This combination of salted olives and rice is lovely marriage, the dry packed olives which is not as salty, more liquorice like complement the bland rice very well.




Ingredients:

1/3 lb. small fresh shrimp, shelled and diced
2 eggs
10 Chinese salted black olives - chopped
4 garlic - chopped
1/2 lb. ground pork
2 tsp. fish sauce
4 cups long grain cooked rice - preferably leftover
6-8 Thai chillies, cut into very thin rounds
1/3 cup vegetable oil
Cilantro sprigs

Method:

Heat the oil in a wok until it is hot, add the shrimp and stir fry until the color has become pink and cooked through. Remove from wok, leaving behind the oil and set aside.

Toss in the ground pork and garlic and stir-fry, breaking the pork into little bits as it cooks. When most of the pork has changed color, add the eggs and stir to combine. When eggs are set add in the chopped salted olives.

Loosen the grains of the leftover rice before tossing into the wok. Stir-fry for several minutes until the rice is well heated through and well mixed with the pork and olives. Add in the cooked shrimps and adjust the taste with fish sauce.

Garnish rice with cilantro sprigs and cut chillies.


Serves

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have never heard of this version of fried rice but does sound yummy! :)

Anonymous said...

Hi Lily,

How is the chinese olive like like? Is it the same as the pizza olive type? Where can I get it from?

Unknown said...

anonymous

the chinese dried olives i use is dried like 'sour plum' snack and strangely it is not so salty. I remembered when i was young, my grandmother would request for these salty olives and i did not like it cos they were so salty.

They are readily available in the asian stores but the Thai recommends the canned chinese olives.

Anonymous said...

Auty Lily,

Thank you for your advise. Will try to look out for these dry olive & cook it as I love olive rice. :)

Big Boys Oven said...

yes I also realise that chinese olive taste different from western olives! :)

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