Macaroni Goreng
Singaporean and Malaysian Recipes recipe - Malay
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 200 g macaroni (or any pasta)
- 1 large pot of water
- ½ Tbsp salt
- 1 medium onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 Tbsp cili boh (red chilli paste) (OR 2 red chillies)
- 4 Tbsp tomato ketchup (or tomato paste)
- 1-2 Tbsp chilli paste
- 2 Tbsp oyster sauce (skip for vegetarian and double up on the light soy sauce)
- 1 Tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp sweet soy sauce ((kicap manis))
- 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
- 200 g chicken (in bite-sized pieces)
- 1 handful breansprouts
- 1 handful shredded cabbage
- 3 eggs
- 2 handful greens (I'm using pak choi)
- 2 tomatoes (quartered)
- lime juice (non negotiable)
- chives or spring onions
- 4 sunny side up eggs
- cucumber slices
- tomato wedges
- sambal or sliced chillies
- crispy fried shallots
Instructions
- 1
Bring a large pot of water to a boil with the salt.
- 2
Tip in the macaroni and cook it for 1 minute less than what's on the packet instructions. So if the packet says 8 minutes, cook it for 7 minutes. If it says 8 - 10, still cook it for 7. This will stop your macaroni from being overcooked and mushy.
- 3
Drain, reserving a little of the pasta water just in case our macaroni gets too dry later. Rinse in cool water and leave aside while you get everything else ready. Your pasta wants to be at room temperature, or cold. Place it in the fridge if you like. That's what I do, but away from dairy and meat.
- 4
Quarter your onion, then place it in a food chopper, along with the garlic and chilli paste (or sliced red chillies).
- 5
Grind to a fairly fine paste. No food chopper? Just chop it all up finely.
- 6
Mix all the sauces together and set aside.
- 7
Lightly whisk the eggs, set aside.
- 8
Heat the oil in a large wok or frying pan on medium heat and fry the spice paste for 5 minutes, until fragrant. As our spice paste hasn't got much liquid, you'll reach the pecah minyak stage quicker. Click here to read more about pecah minyak.
- 9
Increase the heat to high or medium-high, and add your protein of choice, and cook for 5 minutes. I'm using chicken. Whatever you're using, make sure it's in small, bite-sized pieces. If using tofu, just fry for 2 minutes.
- 10
Add the cabbage and beansprouts and stir well.
- 11
Pour in the sauces and heat through for a minute.
- 12
Now, chuck in the cooled macaroni and mix well. Fry for about 3 minutes, until everything is a little dry and the sauce has been absorbed.
- 13
Push the macaroni to one side and pour in the beaten egg. Leave to set slightly for 30 seconds, then agitate the eggs (see video at 1:33), leave for another 30 seconds to set slightly.
- 14
Now toss everything together, frying the macaroni and eggs well. Cooking the eggs this way ensures that some of the egg is coating the macaroni, while the rest is is soft clumps. The best of 2 worlds.
- 15
Taste and add a little more light soy sauce if you think it needs it. Finish off with some lime juice. Serve as suggested above.