Malaysian Pan Mee

Here is another kind of Malaysian food which I have made during this weekend. Its a good try and all my friends enjoyed it. The recipe is adapted and modified from a random blog called Food Made Simple.

Ingredients A: Dried Chili Paste

One of the most important ingredient but it is alright if you prefer to eat without the chilli paste.  

• Dried Chillies - stem cutted and soaked - 2 handful (approximately 25 pieces)
• Fresh Red Chillies - 2
• Dried Shrimp - 1 palmful
• Shallots or onion - 5 shallots or 2 mid sized onion (shallots preferred!)
• Garlic - 3 cloves
• Oil - 4 tbsp

 Method:

1. Blend all the ingredients together.
2. Heat up the wok with low fire and stir fry the ingredients until dry and golden brown. [TIP: Make sure you keep an eye on the fire and make sure that it will not be overcooked/burnt]

 Ingredients B: Minced Meat Sauce

• 500gm of minced pork - marinade with salt, pepper and a dash of soy sauce and some starch
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Dark Soya sauce - 1 tbsp
• Oyster Sauce - 1 tbsp
• A pinch of Salt
• A dash of pepper
• Some light soya sauce
• Some water [Tip: If you preferred a drier texture, you can adjust the content of the water accordingly]

 Method:

1. Heat up the walk and fry some shallots.
2. When the shallots are about to turn its colour to golden brown, put in the mince meat and stir-fry it until cooked.
3. When all the mince pork are cooked, add in some dark soya sauce, oyster sauce and some water.
4. Finally, stir to blend all the sauces and add some salt and pepper to taste.

Ingredients C: The Soup and other condinments

• Fried Anchovies (Ikan Bilis)
• Chicken stock
• Poached /Fried egg (Optional)
• Some vegetables

 Method:

1. Heat the wok and fried the achovies.
2. Reserve some anchovies to be used as dressing in the end. Scoop up the excess oil as well if you do not want your soup to be too oily.
3. Pour some boiling water to be boiled with the anchovies in the wok and let it boil for about 10-15 minutes in low heat. Add in some chicken stock if the flavouring is not enough.
4. For the poached egg: Crack an egg in another pot of simmering water and leave it until its cook. Another pot is used because I do not wish to contaminate the soup that was prepared earlier with egg. ( I personally think that egg is not a neccessity for pan mee but if you are like poached egg, this is the way to do it.)
5. Finally, add some vegetables into the soup for a more healthy and balanced meal! 

Ingredients D: The Noodles/Dough

• 300 grams plain flour (sieved) [TIP: 100 grams of plain flour is equivalent to one person's portion.]
• salt water [TIP: add it bit by bit][
• an egg 
• 1/2 teaspoon oil (makes the texture smooth)

Method:

1. Sieve the flour and dig a hole in the middle. Add in an egg and start mixing the flour with the egg.
2. Add in some salt water bit by bit and start kneading the everything until it becomes a dough.
3. Once the dough is ready, it is good to let it sit a while before you start cooking. 30 minutes is fine. Remember to cover the dough with a wet cloth so that the surface of the dough do not crack up.

[TIP: Make sure that your dough is not too soft if you are making the dough into strands of noodles] (I preferred pan mee which is flat and they are torn according to the sizes othat I like.

THE WHOLE PICTURE

1. Finally, to put everything together!
2. I will scoop some soup from the anchovies soup into another pot to prepare the noodles.  
3. Put in the noodles in the soup, let it cook for 2 minutes then scoop up the noodles into a bowl.
4. Then, I will follow by putting in the condinments which are the poached egg, fried anchovies, mince meat sauce and the dry chilli paste.

Yummy...