Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, mee siam. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mee Siam is typically garnished with shredded omelette, scallions, bean sprouts, garlic chives, and lime wedges. In Malaysia a "dry" version is more commonly found, which is essentially stir frying the rice noodles with the same ingredients used in the Singaporean version. Mee Siam is a common dish as breakfast, brunch or lunch in Malaysia.
Mee Siam is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Mee Siam is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mee siam using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mee Siam:
- Make ready 300 g rice vermicelli (meehoon) - soak in water for 5 minutes and drain
- Take 300 g prawns - peel and devein
- Take 200 g beansprouts (peel both ends to get a crunchier bite texture)
- Take 2 pcs firm tofu, slices (optional - I am not a big fan of tofu)
- Make ready 80 g dried shrimps, wash and chopped coarsely
- Make ready 150 g chives, cut into 3cm length
- Take 4 kaffir lime leaves, shredded finely
- Get 1/3 cup cooking oil
- Prepare Ingredients to be pounded or blended together:
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic
- Take 4 shallots
- Get 1 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 3 Tbsp chopped ginger flower (Bunga Kantan)
- Get 1 stalk lemongrass chopped finely
- Prepare 3 bird eye chilies (if you like it spicy)
- Make ready 3 calamsansi cut in halves to serve at the side (optional)
- Prepare Seasonsings:
- Prepare 2 Tbsp fish sauce
- Make ready 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- Prepare 1/2 Tbsp tamarind paste
- Make ready 2 tsp sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp chicken stock granules
- Prepare 1/2 tsp white pepper
- Prepare 2 cups water
It would still be delicious as the main attraction of. Mee Siam is a spicy stir-fried rice vermicelli popular for breakfast, lunch or dinner. In Singapore and Malaysia, mee siam is often served at special events. It is garnished with shredded omelette, scallions and lime wedges which make every mouthful a delight to savour.
Steps to make Mee Siam:
- Prepare all the ingredients!
- Heat oil in the wok. Lightly fry the dried shrimps and tofu but separately. Dish out and put aside.
- Stir fry the pounded ingredients and kaffir lime leaves until aromatic. Add prawns and fry until they are half-cooked. Dish out only the prawns and put aside.
- Add in seasonings and bring to boil. Then add meehoon and stir-fry.
- Mix in dried shrimps, tofu, prawns, chives and beansprouts. Mix them well for 3 minutes or until everything are cooked.
- Serve with cut lime at the side to drizzle if preferred.
Mee Siam which means "Siamese noodle" in Malay, is a local hawker dish which makes for an ideal breakfast type of food. (Okay, so I wanted to write this because it is quite under-rated.) A basic Mee Siam comprises of rice vermicelli (bee hoon) along with tau pok and hardboiled egg, all of which are in a tangy and sweet-spicy gravy. Grandma Mee Siam makes classic, fresh mee siam that will bring you back to your childhood days. The gravy for the mee siam was a perfect combination of tanginess and sweetness and complemented the rest of the components of the dish very well. The dish comes with a boiled egg, tau pok, and is garnished with spring onions. Mee Siam is a Malaysian favorite often served during public functions.
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