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15-Minute Meal: Sardines and Rice

7/1/2013

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I was looking through some of the recent posts here when I realized the amounts of cream and cheese that must have gone through our bodies in the past few weeks. And these were just the ones consumed at home. How about the ones we have on our Friday dinner treats at the same old place!

Downward dogs or not, we ought to lighten up our meals. As in, no cream, no cheese, less oil, less fat.
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You will never imagine how far a humble can of sardines could go until you see it with your stomach. And what I like even more about this dish, is its speed. This is potentially a 15-minute meal, if only JL likes sardines in tomato sauce Malaysian-style. He loves canned sardines, but only in light olive oil or brine. There were days when he would ask for toasted sandwiches made with these. But never with tomato sauce. So this one here is just for me and possibly an imaginary friend or two. 

2 Minutes
Lightly rinse 1 cup of white rice. Drain off the water. Add 1.5 cups water to the rice in a small non-stick saucepan. Put the lid on, bring to a boil then simmer for 12 minutes.

2 Minutes
Finely slice a medium red onion. Push to one corner of the chopping board. Do the same for a large tomato.

8-10 Minutes
Drizzle light olive oil in a large sauté pan. Sweat the onions, then add the tomatoes. When the tomatoes have softened, add the sardines along with the tomato sauce. Reduce the heat if the sauce starts to splatter. 

Using the can, measure half a can of water to add to the sardines. Add two tablespoons of tomato sauce (ketchup), one tablespoon of sugar, and juice of half a lemon. Stir gently to mix. Scoop up the sardines to place on a deep plate, then pour the sauce all over. Garnish with some spring onions if you wish. 

The rice should be ready now. Remove the lid and fluff the rice before serving.

P.S. If you want to make this even more Malaysian, quarter a cucumber lengthwise, slice off the seeds, and slice each quarter diagonally to go with the meal. It takes but two minutes more, max. 
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    JL and S grew up in France and Malaysia respectively. They met while living in Singapore, stayed a year in the USA (Cambridge, MA) then the south of France, Malaysia, and are back again in the USA (New York, NY). 

    frenchinos at home is where we share some of our stories with friends, much like the living room, dine-in kitchen, or the timber-deck balcony which we've always wanted to have, which sounds most impossible where we live now. 

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