Mee Rebus Recipe(Chinese yellow noodles and soya bean cakes in a spicy sweet potato gravy recipe) |
Ingredients: Serves 8-10 |
500 g (1 lb) Hokkien mee (fresh yellow noodles) 500 g (1 lb) bean sprouts 200 g (7 oz) shin beef 200 g (7 oz) shrimps Spice paste: 10 dried chilies, softened in hot water 1 cup shallots, peeled 1 teaspoon belachan (dried shrimp paste) 10 slices lengkuas (galangal) 1 teaspoon turmeric powder Gravy: 200 g (7 oz) sweet potato, boiled, peeled and mashed 1 heaped tablespoon taucheow (brown soya bean paste) 1 tablespoon salt or to taste 2 tablespoons sugar or to taste Garnishes: 5 hardboiled eggs, shelled and sliced 4 taukwa (firm soya bean cake), deep-fried and diced into 8 pieces Fried shallots 10 calamansi, halved 4 green chilies, remove seeds and sliced dark soy sauce, optional toasted grago (shrimp fry), optional 1 stalk lettuce, cut into long strips |
Method: Make a stock by boiling beef in 6 cups of water until tender. Remove and slice beef. Cook shrimps in the stock and peel, de-veined and set aside. Reserve stock. Process spice paste ingredients in a chopper until fine. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a wok and fry spice paste until oil rises to the surface. Add taucheow and fry until fragrant. Add the stock, mashed sweet potato, salt and sugar and cook over a low fire until all is amalgamated. Taste to adjust seasoning if needed. Cook one serving of noodles and bean sprouts in a wire ladle in boiling water. Remove, drain and place on a plate. Top with beef slices and shrimps. Pour hot gravy over and garnish with egg wedges, taukwa, fried shallot, chili, lettuce and a halved calamansi. Drizzle some dark soya sauce if desired and sprinkle some grago, browned earlier in a slow oven until crisp. |
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