Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, hokkien noodles. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Hokkien noodles are round egg noodles that are usually of medium thickness. Hokkien noodles refer not to a specific kind of noodle, but to the style of noodle dishes made by Hokkien people originally from Fujian province as they travelled through Southeast Asia. In Penang, it is a soupy dish of prawns and noodles in a rich seafood broth. In Kuala Lumpur, it's noodles fried in pork lard with a thick, black gravy.
Hokkien Noodles is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Hokkien Noodles is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook hokkien noodles using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hokkien Noodles:
- Prepare 1 packet thick Hokkien Noodles (440g)
- Make ready 1 tp corn starch + 1 - 2 tbsp water
- Take 1 C shrimp (or fishballs)
- Make ready 1 C meat slices
- Make ready 1 C cut green vegies
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic - finely chopped
- Make ready 3 tbsp lard/ cooking oil
- Get 4 tbsp or more caramel soy sauce/can use dark soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Make ready 1 tsp sesame oil
- Get 1 tsp chicken cube or chicken powder seasoning (to taste)
- Take 1/2 C water or chicken stock/pork stock
- Take 2 tsp sugar
- Prepare Note:
- Prepare 1 . Some people use animal fat like lard or beef dripping to cook this noodle
- Get 2 . Marinara mix can be used in placed of fish balls/fish cakes
Hokkien char mee (Hokkien fried noodles; 福建炒麵) is served in Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding region. It is a dish of thick yellow noodles braised in thick dark soy sauce with pork, squid, fish cake and cabbage as the main ingredients and cubes of pork fat fried until crispy (sometimes pork liver is included). Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over high heat. Add the shrimp paste and stir-fry until just dissolved.
Instructions to make Hokkien Noodles:
- There are variations of hokkien noodle. Choose the thick one. Soak noodles in boiling water to soften. Drain and set aside. Since i don’t take pork or lard, i use other type of animal fat. Below is a picture of animal fat i use at home.
- Heat wok. Pour in oil (or lard if using). Add garlic then meat slices, cook for 2 to 3 mins.
- In separate bowl, mix all the sauces- cooking caramel (if using), dark soy sauce, sesame oil, ground pepper. Pour this mixture into the wok. Add water, sugar and chicken cube (if needed). Stir. Then add noodle and cut green vegies of your choice. Next Add corn starch mixture. Let it simmer again till gravy thickens. Adjust taste to your liking. If using lard, add another spoon of lard to the noodle at this stage. Stir and remove from the heat.
- Serve hot.
Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over high heat. Add the shrimp paste and stir-fry until just dissolved. Then add the marinated pork and stir-fry for another minute. Prepare the Fantastic Hokkien Noodles, according to package instructions, drain, rise well with cold water and then set aside. In the meantime, combine all of the sauce ingredients into a small bowl and whisk well.
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