Sweet Anchovies is a delicacy in Korea, Japan and China. In the Philippines, what I can remember is our anchovies, even though they are sweet, they're coated with I believe sugar and flour and deep fried.
The anchovies I used here were imported from Malaysia. I saw it already cooked at the Korean Store near our place. It reminded me of what Japan Airlines serve to their passengers on long trips. I don't have a fixed measurement guides here as I was only experimenting.
Ingredients:
2 tbsp of cooking oil
1 100 gms bag of anchovies
2 tbsp of honey
1 tsp of dried chili powder
2 tbsp of vinegared chili paste (or more if you want it spicy hot)
Fry anchovies in oil for about 5 minutes. Set aside. On the same pan, combine honey, chili powder and vinegard chili paste. Bring to a rolling boil. Add the fried anchovies making sure that the anchovies are coated well with the honey mixture.
Enjoy it as a "pulutan" or an appetizer.
4 comments:
ayan ka na naman, ting! ^-^
oh, this is my uncle's specialty. he still cooks this every once in a while but of course he uses sugar, alam mo na, expensive ang honey sa atin, hehe. i like it very spicy and with ice-cold coke!
;)
sa malay - bilis. "ikan bilis" ang complete name. ikan is fish in bahasa.
sarap either dilis or bilis.
Bok..not cold beer?
Ikan in Ilocano is fish Jay. Dilis in Ilocano is Karing. Hmm..
Bugsy..it would be interesting. As Bok suggested, use brown sugar if honey is not in abundance. I think the sugar does the work equally good.
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