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Mee Rebus - Noodles in Sweet Potato Gravy

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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings: 8
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1.5 kg of fresh yellow egg noodles blanched
  • 200 g bean sprouts blanched
  • 4 tbsp vegetable Oil
  • 600 g beef - sliced see notes
  • 400 g fresh shrimps/prawns - remove shells and deveined
  • 500 g sweet potatoes boiled until soft and puree.
  • 1/2 cup peanuts - roasted and pound/blend till fine
  • 2 tbsp meat curry powder
  • 1 lemon grass - bruised
  • 2 L Water
  • 1-2 tbsp palm sugar/brown sugar only required if the sweet potatoes isn't sweet
Paste Ingredients:
  • 10 Shallots or 2 large onion
  • 1 inch fresh Ginger
  • 1 inch Galangal
  • 6 cloves garlic
  • 2 tbsp dried baby shrimps omit if not available, see notes
  • 2 tbsp fermented Soy Bean Paste Tahuco
Garnishing ingredients:
  • 2 firm bean curd tofu – cut into 1cm cubes and fry
  • 4 hard-boiled Eggs - halved
  • 1/4 cup chopped parsley
  • 1/4 cup spring chopped onion/scallions
  • 1/2 cup crisp-fried shallots
  • 10 calamansi lime - halved
  • 4 green chilies sliced thinly

Method
 

  1. In a blender, place ingredients to be blended with ½ cup of water and blend into a fine paste.
  2. Heat vegetable oil in a pot and fry the blended ingredients and lemon grass for about 5 minutes.
  3. Add the curry powder and cook for a further 10 minutes or until fragrant.
  4. Add in beef, water and season with salt. Cook till the beef is tender.
  5. Once beef is tender, add shrimps/prawns and cook for a further few minutes.
  6. Stir in the mashed sweet potatoes till it dissolves into the gravy.
  7. If the gravy is too thick at this point, do add some water to thin it down.
  8. Finally add in peanuts and season with more salt and sugar if required.
To assemble:
  1. Place some noodles and beansprouts in a bowl.
  2. Pour some gravy over the beansprouts and yellow egg noodles.
  3. Sprinkle with green chilli, firm bean curd slices, fried shallots, spring onions and parsley.
  4. Top with half an egg and lime.
  5. This is best served hot/warm.

Notes

If baby dried shrimps are not available, add another 300g of fresh prawns/shrimps
If you do not consume beef, you can use more prawns or shrimps instead.