Vegetables | 4 angled beans in crispy anchovies

Hi everyone, My name is Michele

And in this video, I’ll be showing you

How my family usually fries 4 angled beans

with crispy anchovies

Like any other vegetables, wash the beans thoroughly with water.

Then grab a handful of anchovies and rinse thoroughly

To remove an excess sea salt

so that they are not too salty after cooking.

Remove the top and the end of the beans

At an angle,

slice the beans to about 1 cm thickness

Don’t worry about getting it too precise.

We usually just agak-agak.

Approximate in Malay

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Next, prepare a few cloves of garlic.

Agak-agak about 3-4 cloves.

It doesn’t matter if you add slightly more or less.

Since garlic is very good for health.

Peel and remove the top of the garlic

Sometimes we slice it into thin pieces like this.

So that it’s easier to brown them.

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If we want it to brown even faster. We mince them like this.

Done, let’s fry it.

Heat up your wok with medium fire for a few minutes.

This will prevent your garlic from sticking to your wok.

Add some oil, approximately about 5 tablespoons full

First, fry the anchovies until they are brown and fragrant.

Keep frying.

Once it looks brown, push the anchovies aside.

Let the oil pool at the opposite end and fry your garlic immediately.

Make sure the garlic and the anchovies stay separated.

So that the garlic continues to brown and the anchovies remain crispy.

Keep stirring your garlic

Don’t stop stirring or else the edges will turn black before the centre is brown.

Once your garlic is fragrant and brown, add in your beans.

Then add a bit of water to create steam.

In order to cook your beans.

Keep the anchovies and beans separated.

By tilting your pan so that the sauce stays away from the anchovies.

If you find that this method is tedious

you can scoop out the anchovies into a small plate.

We usually do this because there’s less dishes to wash. It’s just easier.

Keep stirring the beans until they are crinkled on the sides.

Now, taste the sauce to check if it’s salty enough.

If not salty enough, add a bit of soya sauce. Light soya sauce.

Then stir the beans and taste test again.

Now I think it’s done.

We can turn off the fire

And plate the beans.

Oh, Not plate. Bowl it. Scoop the beans into the bowl first.

then ,the anchovies on top of the beans.

This will keep the anchovies crispy. If you bury the anchovies under

If you bury the anchovies underneath the beans.

In the sauce, it will soak up all the sauce and become soggy.

Finally it’s done. Our humble and simple 4 angled beans with crispy anchovies.