Ever since we went to our friend’s place for dinner I had been obsessing about stir fried bean sprouts with salted fish. It’s a simple dish and very cheap but sooo delicious. I think the salted fish is what makes me salivate everytime I think about it or smell it.
We were in Chinatown the other day so I decided to make some of this beautiful stuff. I made a massive batch (900g of bean sprouts) because we tend to cook once a week and just eat it for the rest of the week. Also because I was planning of consuming 10 years worth in a sitting that night; which I did since I haven’t had very much in the past 10 years of my life 😛
Ingredients:
- Bean sprouts – 900g (~AUD$1.80)
- Salted fish (the vacuum packed ‘wet’ type) – 1/3rd of the packet (~AUD$1.50)
- Garlic – couple of cloves (~AUD$0.50)
- Chilli – to your liking (~AUD0.50)
- Fish Sauce – to taste; depends on how much fish you put in
- Heat oil in the wok and fry the salted fish until almost brown and crisp
- Chuck in the chopped garlic and chillies. Stir for a bit (don’t allow the garlic to cook too much as burnt garlic is really bitter)
- Chuck in the washed bean sprouts and cook until it is wilted. I like mine with a crunch still to it so I don’t cook it very much. You can sort of tell because the bean sprouts go a bit translucent
How easy is that! Takes like 10 mins, cost like AUD$4.30 for the whole batch, and fed us for a week with the chicken casserole we made in the slow cooker. And rice of course.
Be forewarned though – frying the salted fish really stinks! Owl almost died, not being from the same kind of background as me.
Our cat, the Empress Dowager, loved it though hehe.
Ant and Owl 