This recipe has become one of our staples: it's quick, tasty, easy (once you have the ingredients on hand), and takes well to continued experimentation.
Ingredients
- approx. 1 tbsp. ghee or olive oil
- 2 cups cooked rice (medium-grain brown rice is good; we also use basmati)
- 2 cans of sardines in water or oil (approximately 4.25 oz each)
- approx. 1 tsp. soy sauce
- one squirt nam pla or similar fish sauce
- 2-4 tbsp. furikake, goma shio, or similar
- 2-4 large pinches of shredded nori
- 1/4 cup shredded pickled vegetables (standard Japanese or Thai pickled vegetables: daikon, carrot, et cetera — optional)
Recipe
- Drain the sardines & break them apart with a fork. (If they're in oil, you may be able to use that for cooking — or, feed the drained liquid to your cat.)
- Place your wok or favorite frying/sauté pan on medium heat
- Add ghee or olive oil, wait for it to heat up
- Add rice, sardines, soy sauce, and nam pla
- Toss them together (still on medium heat) for 3-5 minutes, until fully heated
- Add vegetables (optional) and furikake; mix well
- Add shredded nori one pinch at a time, still mixing (otherwise it tends to clump up)
- Mix it all on the stove for another couple of minutes
- Serve & enjoy immediately

