Malaysian Mee Goreng
Ingredients
- 1 lb spaghetti noodles (boiled al dente and drained) or yellow noodles
- ½ cup shrimp - peeled, deveined and rinsed with salt
- 2 cups cabbage - sliced thinly ( or beansprouts if available)
- 6 stalks of green onion - cut into 1cm length
- 3 cloves garlic-chopped
- ½ medium onion-chopped
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 eggs
- salt (to taste)
- 5 tbsp oil
- 1 lime (juice for garnishing)
- cucumber or cilantro for garnish, optional
- ¾ cup ketchup
- 1 to 2 tbsp Sriracha sauce
- 1 tsp Sichuan chilli oil (optional, see recipe for homemade version)
- 1 medium potato, cut into thin slices
- 1 square tofu (cut into 1cmx1cm cubes)
- ½ to 1 hot chilli pepper (serrano, jalapeno, thai etc) optional
Directions
- Fry thinly sliced potato in oil until browned. Add a pinch of salt to potato while it's frying. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Fry tofu squares in same in oil until browned. Add a pinch of salt to tofu while it's frying. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Fry chopped onion, garlic and chilli pepper (optional) until slightly brown and fragrant.
- Add peeled, washed and drained shrimp. Stir constantly until shrimp is cooked. Remove shrimp from heat and set aside.
- Add eggs to oil and fry until no longer runny. Set to side of pan.
- Add ketchup and sriracha to pan; may need to add 1 to 2 tbsp of oil to prevent burning. Fry sauces until bubbly.
- Once sauces are bubbly, add browned potato and tofu and mix gently.
- Add noodles to pan. Add soy sauce and stir well.
- Once noodles are well mixed and warm, add thinly sliced vegetables (cabbage or beansprouts, and green onions) to the bottom of noodles.
- Wait 3 minutes, and stir vegetables into noodles until well mixed. Vegetables should be crispy but warm.
- Add back shrimp into pan with noodles and mix well.
- Serve hot with a garnish of thinly sliced cucumber and cilantro. Serve with lime wedges, lime juice to be added just prior to eating.
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