Most of the people in my hometown in Sagaing region are farmers who grow rice, corn, vegetables, and beans. All of the people back home love to eat beans. My mother and my grandparents regularly use different kinds of beans, which are easy to prepare and taste delicious with mango salad, chicken curry, dried fish and other dishes. Let’s try it with dried fish.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour for the three recipes
Overall time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Ingredients
Bean rice
50 grams black-eyed peas 50 grams
500 grams rice
800 millilitres water
Dried fish
200 grams dried fish
Two tablespoons crushed dried chilli
20 grams peanut
20 grams chicken powder
One tablespoon chicken powder
400 millilitres oil
Marian plum paste
30 marian plums
Four tablespoons dry shrimp powder
Two tablespoons fish paste
Instructions
Bean rice
- Boil black-eyed peas in a pot for 10-15 minutes. Wash the rice and place it in a rice cooker. Then add the beans and water to the rice cooker and cook.
Fried dried fish
- Remove the head of dried fish and rinse the fish.
- Heat the pan and add oil. Fry the peanuts and set them aside.
- Fry the dried fish until it turns golden brown and set it aside.
- Leave a little oil in the pan to fry the crushed dried chilli for a minute.
- Mix all of the ingredients together in the pan and serve.
Marian plum paste
- Wash all the marian plums and remove the seeds from the centre. Place all of the ingredients in a food processer. You can also sprinkle in some peanuts.
