MEE REBUS (Malaysian style)

Dried prawns and ikan belis blended into powder.
MEE REBUS
Hi people,

Today the recipe is a noodle dish. MEE REBUS. This is a Malay word meaning ‘boil mee or boil noodles’.

Mee rebus can be found in most eating stalls in Asia. This can be eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Through the years, people’s taste change, so every stall will have their own secret recipe. You can always change ingredients to suit your taste.
This dish is noodles with a thick , hot sauce, top with fried ‘tow foo’ bean curd, boiled eggs, squid sambal ‘optional’ this is also a vegetarian dish.
INGREDIENTS.
1 packet yellow noodles. (mee)
250gms, bean shoots (towkay)
4 pieces fried bean curd (fried tow foo)
2 hard boil eggs (cut in ½)
Wedges of lemon
Fried small onions, spring onions , sliced red chillies and coriander leaves for garnish.

SAUCE

½ teasp. Pepper
2 teasp. Chilly powder to taste ( TIP. you can use dried chillies, you have to soak this in hot water, then pound)
2 slices galangal (langkwas)
2 slices ginger
½ bowl small onions or 2 med. Big onions
4 pips garlic
3 candle nuts (buah keras)

Pound the above, then add
1 teasp turmeric powder
2 teasp. Cumin powder
2 teasp coriander powder
1 teasp fennel powder

STOCK
Beef bones or chicken bones can be used for the stock.
For those who wants a vegetarian stock, use( ikan belis) dried anchovies , dried prawns and the blue swimmer crabs. Under TIPS I’ll teach you how to make the ikan belis powder.
Boil a med. Size sweet potato and mash it, keep aside.

Fry the top ingredients with ¼ cup oil till fragrant add 2 ltr. Stock, simmer for 20mins, add seasonings, add mashed sweet potato to thicken. Simmer 5 mins.

Boil noodles, bean shoots, ( TIP. do not over cook the shoots, put in boiling water for 2 seconds, over cooked shoots loose their crunch ) put bean shoots on a plate, top with noodles, fried bean curds, boiled eggs, spoon over sauce , enough to cover noodles will do.
Garnish with fried onions, spring onions, coriander leaves and squid sambal,wedge of lemon.
To cook the squid sambal , look under sambal in my earlier posting, under NASI LEMAK.
Fry 1 sliced big onion, add squids( TIP. boil squids in boiling water to remove excess water)

TIP. For POTATO SAMBAL, cut up potatoes, boil 10 mins add to sambal.
Add tomatoes and the sambal, simmer 2 mins.

Today’s TIP.
To make ikan belis powder, dry dried prawns and ikan belis in a low oven till very dry , put in a dry blender, bottle and keep in fridge, this can be used for stir fry vegetables and making a quick stock .
Quick stock.
For 1 ltr. of water, add 2 teasp of dried powder. Simmer 10 mins.

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