Thursday 13 June 2013

Curry Noodles

This dish is suitable when all the family gets together. Usually we have it on Saturdays or Sundays. But now my sundays are taken up teaching Math Monkey. Imagine me teaching math when I hate it one time. With Math Monkey, even dumb-dumb like me can understand it.Anyway I'm not here to promote Math Monkey but to share with ya all my recipe on curry noodles ( or mee kari).

Ingredients
2 pkt yellow noodles or 1 kg
100 g prawns
280 g chicken ( cubed if possible with bones on)
180 squids ( cleaned and cut into thick rings)
2 blocks of the fish cake ( cut thinly)
35 g shallots ( or onions since shallots are sooo expensive now)
5 g garlic
3 g ginger
13 g dried prawns ( soaked for a few mins)
1 pkt curyy powder / 25 g
coconut milk from one coconut
some curry leaves
2 tblsp oil
some puff bean curd ( cut diagonally)

Garnishing
250 g bean sprouts ( soak with boiling water for 5 mins then drain)
6 limau kasturi or kalimansi ( cut across and take out the seeds)
some pasley and green onions
fried shallots

Sambal
3 tblsp cili boh
1 tblsp dried prawns ( soak and drain)
1 asam keping
1 tblsp oil

Method
1. Heat up the oil and add in everything.
2. Let it cook on low heat until the mixture turns glassy and an aroma fills up the kitchen.
3. Salt to taste
4. Turn of the heat and serve it with the curry noodles.

Method ( for the gravy)
1. Pound or blend the shallots, garlic, ginger and dried prawns.
2. Mix in the curry powder until it becomes a paste
3. Heat the oil and add in the curry paste and curry leaves.
4. When the curry aroma fills the kitchen, put in the chicken and let it cook for a bit.
5. Add in the prawns, squids and the fish cake.
6. When the seafood turns opaque, add in the coconut milk and let it simmer for a few minutes. Salt to taste
7. Add in the puff bean curd towards the very end. They tend to soak up the gravy