Mee Goreng Mamak
Singapore's street food at it's best. Hot, spicy, sweet, savoury, and oh so comforting stir-fried yellow noodles bursting with flavours! Here's my version of Indian style mee goreng, loaded with ingredients like fish cake, golden pan-fried potatoes, tofu cubes, local greens, and succulent prawns. Hungry yet?
- Prep time
- --
- Cook time
- Not listed
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 400 g yellow noodles
- 200 g cai xin (cut into 2 inch pieces)
- 2 cups bean sprouts
- 1 fish cake (thinly sliced)
- 16 prawns (shelled and cleaned)
- 1 shallot (minced)
- 3 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1 to mato (cut into wedges)
- 1 small potato (diced)
- 1 firm tofu (diced)
- 2 eggs
- 3 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 2-3 tbsp sambal chilli paste (or to taste (I used lee wee brother's))
- 4 tbsp tomato ketchup
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp kicap manis (Sweet soy sauce)
- 1 tsp sugar
- 4 tbsp chicken stock
- salt and pepper
- Coriander leaves
- Lime (calamansi wedges)
- Cucumber slices
Instructions
- 1
Heat 2 tbsp cooking oil over medium high heat, and add potato.
- 2
Cook until soften and starting to turn golden, and add diced tofu.
- 3
When tofu starts to turn golden, add fish cake to stir-fry.
- 4
Remove from wok and set aside.
- 5
In the same wok, heat 1 tbsp cooking oil + 1 tsp sesame oil over medium high heat.
- 6
Add shallots and garlic, then stir-fry until fragrant.
- 7
Put in your prawns and tomato, and season with salt and black pepper.
- 8
Cook for a minute or 2 until prawn is almost done.
- 9
Add sambal, ketchup, kicap manis, oyster sauce, chicken stock,and sugar.
- 10
Toss to combine,
- 11
Bring to boil, then add in noodles and bean sprouts, toss to coat noodles with sauce.
- 12
Add potatoes, tofu, fish cake, and cai xin.
- 13
Continue to stir-fry until noodles absorbed all the liquid, and season with salt to taste.
- 14
Push everything aside, and create some space on the side of the wok for the egg.
- 15
Crack in egg and scramble, when it's almost set, toss noodles and eggs together.
- 16
Remove from heat and serve with wedge of lime, cucumber slices, and coriander.