Dry Mee Siam 干炒米暹 How to cook bee hoon w/o breaking • Mee Siam Goreng • Bihun / Noodle Stir Fry
Ingredients
- Rempah paste
- Shallot6 pieces
- Garlic4 cloves
- Dried chili10 pieces
- Dried shrimp50 g
- Belacan · dry fry in a pan until it crumbles25 g
- Vegetable oil
- Tau cheo1 tbsp
- Tomato paste1 tbsp
- Tamarind
- Sugar1 ½
- Prawn300 g
- Vermicelli250 g
- Chive70 g
- Calamansi
Instructions
- Soak the dried shrimp in 125ml water, rehydrate and deseed the dried chillies, and dry-fry the belacan in a pan until it crumbles.
- Blend the shallots, garlic, chillies, soaked dried shrimp and belacan into a rempah paste.
- Fry the rempah in cooking oil, then add the tau cheo and tomato paste and stir until fragrant.
- Add the tamarind water (50g tamarind paste to 1 cup hot water, strained) and sugar, and simmer until the gravy thickens.
- Add the prawns and cook until they turn pink.
- Add the vermicelli, soaked for 1 hour in room temperature water, with a little water, and toss gently so the strands do not break.
- Add the chives and calamansi juice (from 5 calamansi), toss to combine, and cook until the noodles are heated through.
- Top with the fried egg strips and firm beancurd as condiments, if using.
Summarized from Spice N' Pans's video. Watch it for the details.
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