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Singapore Hokkien Mee Recipe is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Singapore Hokkien Mee Recipe is something which I have loved my entire life.
Hokkien Hae Mee (福建炒虾面) or Fujian prawn noodles is one of the most iconic hawker dish in Singapore. The Singapore version is pale (I ate dark Hokkien Mee at Malacca before and it was heavenly delicious; but that's a totally different recipe) and uses a mixture of yellow noodles and thick (sometimes thin) rice vermicelli/bee hoon. Preparing the Hokkien prawn soup stock from scratch is the most tedious part of the recipe but it is rewarding.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have singapore hokkien mee recipe using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Singapore Hokkien Mee Recipe:
- Get Prawn Stock:
- Make ready 1.5 liters water
- Take 500 g pork bones (or chicken bones) blanched in boiling water for 5 minutes & rinsed
- Get 500 g local (lala) clams
- Take 200 g prawn shells
- Prepare 1 squid (sotong) insides cleaned
- Prepare 8-12 small or medium prawns with shells on
- Take 1 tsp fish sauce to taste
- Get 1/4 tsp dark soy sauce to taste
- Take Hokkien Mee
- Take 3 tbsp lard oil (or vegetable oil) divided
- Take 2 small eggs lightly beaten
- Make ready 250 g yellow noodles
- Get 150 g rice vermicelli (bee hoon) usually thick bee hoon is used but thin bee hoon is fine as well
- Take 60 g bean sprouts
- Prepare 1 tbsp minced garlic
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp fried lard pieces optional
- Make ready 3 stalks Chinese chives (koo chye) cut to 5 cm (2 in) length
- Take 2 limes halved
Peel and clean the prawns, leaving the tails in-tact. For the stock, place the pork bones and water in a saucepan and bring to a rapid boil over high heat. To start with, there are two types of Hokkien mee, which are Hokkien hae mee and Hokkien char mee. Hokkien hae mee (Hokkien prawn noodles) is commonly served in Singapore while Hokkien char mee (Hokkien fried noodles) is commonly served in K.
Instructions to make Singapore Hokkien Mee Recipe:
- For making homemade prawn stock: In a soup pot, add water, blanched pork bones, clams, and prawn shells.
- When water comes to a rapid boil, add squid and prawns; cook for 2 minutes and remove from pot.
- When cooled, peel the prawn shell (leaving the tail on); return the prawn heads and shells back to the soup pot.
- Slice the squid to thin rings.
- Continue simmering the stock for 40 minutes and strain the broth. Season the stock with fish sauce and dark soy sauce. Yields about 500ml of rich prawn stock.
- For making Hokkien Mee: Heat 1 tbsp oil in wok and add beaten egg. Scramble the egg quickly with a spatula until it is semi set.
- Add yellow noodles, rice vermicelli, bean sprouts, another tbsp of oil and 2 ladles of prawn stock. Stir fry on high heat for 1 minute.
- Push the wok contents to one side, add another 1 tbsp oil to the wok. Stir fry garlic and lard pieces for 15 seconds.
- Add chives, mix everything together, add 2 more ladles of stock and cover with lid to simmer/braise for 3 mins.
- Turn off the heat. Ladle the remaining stock over the cooked noodles. Return the prepared prawns and squid into the hot wok and mix in evenly with the noodles.
- Divide and portion to four serving plates. Serve each plate with a cut lime and some sambal at the side.
- PS: Some Hokkien mee is served with pork belly as well. Par-boil a piece of pork belly together with the soup stock. Slice to smaller pieces when cooled and add them to the wok when stir-frying the Hokkien noodles.
Hokkien mee is one of my all time favourite hawker dishes. It is also a dish that is unique to Singapore. There are many theories as to the origins of the dish, but what is undisputed is that you can't find this style of Hokkien mee in our neighbouring countries, unlike char kway teow where many variations can be found across Malaysia.. Malaysia does have its own "Hokkien Mee" but the. Hokkien Mee Recipe and The Making of Rice.
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