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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
45 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Anchovies are a type of fish that many families love to prepare various dishes. Today, TasteVN will share with you an extremely unique recipe to make crispy fried anchovies wrapped in rice paper with fresh vegetables. Let’s get cooking right away with this fried dish!
Ingredients for Crispy Fried Anchovies Wrapped in Rice Paper with Fresh Vegetables Serves 5 people
Anchovies 150 gr Vermicelli 1 kg Rice paper 20 pieces (for wrapping) Crispy frying flour 1 packet (150gr type) Chicken egg 1 piece Kumquat 1 piece Lemon 1/2 piece Chili 1 piece Garlic 4 cloves Lettuce 300 gr Green onion 3 stalks Herbs a little Fish sauce 3 tablespoons Cooking oil 300 ml Common spices a little (salt/sugar/seasoning/pepper)
How to Choose Fresh Ingredients
How to Choose Fresh Anchovies
- You should choose anchovies that have bright eyes, shiny skin, clear and transparent body, firm and elastic flesh, and no foul smell.
- The best size for anchovies is about the size of a pinky finger. For milk anchovies, choose fish with uniform color and size.
- Avoid choosing fish that are murky in color, have cloudy eyes, soft flesh, or a rotten smell.
See details: How to choose fresh and quality fish
How to choose fresh and delicious lettuce
- Choose long, thick stems; note that pesticide-free lettuce usually has green outer leaves, with the inner layers gradually turning pale green or white.
- Choose stems that feel slightly slimy when broken, indicating freshly picked, sweeter lettuce.
- Fresh vegetables will have smooth leaves, tightly rolled, and a light fragrance, so you should buy them.
How to choose fresh and delicious chicken eggs
- Choose eggs with a uniformly colored shell, without cracks or black spots.
- When touched, the egg shell should feel slightly rough, indicating freshness.
- When holding the egg up to the light, if you see a small air cell and the yolk is round and stable, it is a fresh egg.
- Avoid eggs with a pale shell and many black spots.
- Hold the egg close to your ear and shake it gently; if the egg makes a loud noise, it has been stored for a longer time.
See details: How to choose fresh and delicious chicken eggs
How to prepare Fried Anchovies Wrapped in Rice Paper with Fresh Vegetables
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Prepare the ingredients
Wash the anchovies several times with water and let them drain.
Clean the lettuce and herbs, removing any damaged leaves, then rinse with diluted salt water, and wash again with clean water before draining.
Peel and finely chop the garlic, chop the chili. Finally, wash the green onions and chop them finely.
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Mix the batter and fry the anchovy mixture
You put the anchovies into a bowl, add 1 teaspoon of pepper, 2 teaspoons of seasoning, then mix well and marinate the fish for about 15 minutes.
Next, you crack 1 egg into the bowl with the anchovies along with 150g of crispy batter, mix the mixture well and let it marinate for another 15 minutes.
Finally, add all the chopped green onions and mix well.
Fry the anchovies by adding 300ml of cooking oil into a pan, wait for the oil to heat up, then use a spoon to scoop the batter-coated anchovies into small pieces and put them into the pan to fry over medium heat for about 4 – 5 minutes until golden, flipping both sides evenly, then remove the fish and place it on paper to absorb excess oil.
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Make the dipping sauce and finish
You put 3 tablespoons of fish sauce, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 3 tablespoons of water, the juice of 1/2 lime, the juice of 1 calamondin, add all the minced garlic, minced chili, and then stir the dipping sauce well.
Take 1 piece of rice paper, add lettuce, herbs, vermicelli, and finally the battered fried anchovies, quickly roll it up and enjoy right away.
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The finished product
Enjoy the battered fried anchovies wrapped in rice paper right away. Roll it up to a small bite size, dip it into the sweet and sour sauce, the anchovies are crispy and delicious, served with fresh vegetables without being greasy.
This dish is truly wonderful for the whole family to enjoy, changing up the daily meals.
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Therefore, the dish fried anchovies with rice paper and fresh vegetables is extremely simple and ready to serve everyone. Wishing you and your family success in making this attractive dish!
*Source for the recipe and images shared from Facebook: Meo Meo
