Sunday, March 26, 2006

mamak style mee goreng



Sunday morning I like to eat mee goreng.. It is a heavy meal..but then again.. the joy of eating freshly fried noodles, nothing can beat that. In KL, I used to go to the Pandi restaurent near pudu market for my sunday breakfast. They make really good mamak mee goreng.
Ingredients:
300 g fresh yellow noodles
1 potatoes
2 fresh red chillies
2 fresh green chillies
1 onion
1 tomato
2 eggs
50 g bean sprouts
70 g Chinese cabbage
3 Tbsp tomato sauce
3 Tbsp light soay sauce
4 Tbsp cooking oil
Ingredients for Gravy:
6 Tbsp cooking oil
1 tsp sugar
½ tsp salt
2 cloves garlic
2 onions
12 dried chillies
Garnishing Ingredients:
1 semi-hard bean curd (tau kua)
1 green lime
fried crispy shallots
Preparation of Ingredients :
Grind onions, dried chillies, garlic together.
Boil potato, skin and cut into wedges.
Finely slice the onion and chillies.
Clean and nip roots of bean sprouts.
Cut tomato into wedges.
Cut lime into wedges.
Cut cabbage into 5 cm lengths.
Cut semi-hard bean curd into 2 and slice thickly.
Method:
Heat oil in wok and fry grounded ingredients until fragrant. Add in the sugar and salt.
Remove from heat as soon as the mixture forms a ‘gravy like paste’.
In a clean wok, add 3 Tbsp of oil. Fry onion slices until soft and fragrant.
Toss in tomatoes and Napa cabbage.
Add in bean sprouts and noodles and stir fry for 1 minute over a high fire.
Then toss in the chillies, potatoes and sauces together. Lower heat.
Push noodles to one side of wok. Add 1 tbsp of oil and scramble eggs.
Sprinkle 1 tsp light soya sauce. Mix egg and noodles thoroughly.
Add in the gravy-paste to taste. Stir fry over a very high fire for 1 minute.
Dish noodles onto a serving plate. Garnish with fried crispy shallots and lime.

3 comments:

Annita said...

Nice to see that photograph..Really tempting..have to try it out asap

Unknown said...

I was just thinking of this last nite & this morning I get a visual treat (only). Yummylicious!!!!!!!!!!! Oh how I miss all the mamaks in Kl..... hehehehe

Sarah said...

If only I could go back!!! to where i belong!!