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Singapore-Style Noodles
Recipe courtesy Ching-He Huang, 2008
- Total Time:
- 30 min
- Prep:
- 25 min |
- Inactive Prep:
- -- |
- Cook:
- 5 min
- Level:
- Easy
- Yield:
- 2 servings
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons groundnut oil (peanut)
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
- 1 red chile, seeded and finely chopped
- 5 fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced
- 2 tablespoons ground turmeric
- 3 1/2 ounces diced smoked bacon
- 1 red bell pepper, seeded and sliced
- 1 handful julienned carrot strips
- 1 handful bean sprouts
- 3 1/2 ounces cooked chicken breast, shredded
- 9 ounces dried vermicelli rice noodles, pre-soaked in hot water for 10 minutes and drained
- 1 teaspoon crushed dried chiles
- 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon clear rice vinegar or cider vinegar
- 1 egg, beaten
- Dash toasted sesame oil
- 2 spring onions (green), sliced lengthwise
Directions
Heat the groundnut oil in a wok, and when hot, stir-fry the ginger, chiles, mushrooms and turmeric for a few seconds. Add the bacon, and cook for less than 1 minute. Add the red bell pepper, carrots, and bean sprouts and cook for another minute, then add the cooked chicken, and stir well to combine.
Add the noodles, and stir-fry well, for 2 minutes, then season with the chiles, soy sauce, oyster sauce and vinegar. Stir to combine.
Add in the beaten egg, stirring gently until the egg is cooked through, less than 1 minute. Then, season with the sesame oil. Sprinkle over the spring onions, and serve immediately.
Cook's Note: You could also add 6 ounces raw Tiger prawns (shrimp), shelled, and deveined. Add them to the pan, and cook for 1 minute, or until they start to turn pink, right before you cook the bacon.
Notes'Mee-fun' or 'rice noodles' made their way to Singapore via travelling Fujianese Chinese traders rice is predominantly grown in this sub-tropical Chinese province. On Singaporean soil, rice noodles fused with ingredients like turmeric and curry powder used by other trading Indians and local Malays and thus this delicious stir-fried rice noodle dish was born. It is a takeaway favourite all over the world and one of my favourite brunch dishes. The bacon is not traditional but is a good substitute for Chinese char-siu roast pork. Don't let the long list of ingredients faze you, it's worth it to create the layers of flavours!