Fish Rice Cake (Shan style)
Foods from Shan state are very popular in Myanmar. This is a popular Shan styled rice cake receipe where rices are mixed with fish and potato to make a cake. Though it is called “Sour Shan Rice” in Myanmar language, the receipe tastes only slightly sour but it’s usually smooth and sweet! The rice cake is often eaten as a breakfast or as a snack. Some may even prefer to eat the dish as a main course. The receipt can be cooked in matter of minutes. Let’s see how it is done.
Ingredients
- mrigal – 250 g (cut into large pieces)
- 3 tomatoes, sliced
- 1 tbs fish sauce
- 2 large potatoes, boiled until tender
- 4 cups cooked rice
- 1 ts of salt
- 2 ts of chicken powder
- 1 ts of turmeric powder
- 5 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 4 tbs of vegetable oil
- fresh of spring onion, sliced
- 1 chive root
- 8 fried dried red chillies
Preparation Recipes
1. Heat oil in a wok. Fry garlic until fragrant.
2. Add half teaspoon of turmeric and stir well 30 seconds.
3. Separate oil and fried garlic.
4. Add mrigal, tomatoes, half teaspoon of turmeric, fish sauce and 2 cups of water to the pot and boil it until all tomatoes are crushed.
5. Then remove the fishes from boiling pot, debone and skin, then flake flesh.
Fish Rice Cake Cooking Method:
1. In a large bowl, add rice, mashed potatoes, flake fish, tomatoes paste, turmeric oil, fried garlic, salt and chicken powder, and mix well by hand.
2. And make fish rice ball or fish rice cake by hand.
3. Add a few spring onions and fried garlic. Serve with chive root, dried red chillies and garlic.
Since you wrote in english, it is really useful for me as now i can easily find ingredients easily and thank you yee
Yeah! Thanks my lovely twin!
I didn’t have chance to eat this for so long now i can cook and eat heee
i will do for mur and par when they visit here 
Dad n Mom will happy there
do u know how to call ju Myint in English? please let me know if u do, I’m looking for to plants..
Juu Myint is called “Leek Roots”in English!
Could you please tell me how to grow ju-myit in my backyard.
Chinese chives root
garlic chives root
I have been craving this for long time but I don’t know how to make it. Now I found out how to make. Thanks for sharing recipes and very glad that you wrote in English; otherwise, I don’t know how to find things.
Great recipi. Thanks much.
I like to grow juu myit..chive root…
Where can I buy juu myit plants?
Thanks.
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what else do you eat with i mean do we need some soup
what other fish can i use?
Can use a thick medium firm white fish; Where you from?
Perch, Catfish is a little muddy but OK, Halibut, Escolar, Cod, Lingcod, Mahi Mahi, Sea Bass,
Hi, what’s ‘mrigal’?
Thank you 😊Now I can find ingredients easily 🙂
I like this so much, sis. Thank you so much.