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Mee Siam

  Recipe by Amy Beh

 Cuisine Asian      Recipes   Restaurants
 Type of Dish Central Dish
 Cooking Method Stir-fry
 
Ingredients
  • 250g rice vermicelli or meehoon, soaked for five minutes and drained
  • 200g beansprouts, remove root tips
  • 250g medium-size prawns, shelled
  • 2 pieces fried beancurd (tau kwa), sliced
  • 100g chives, cut into 4cm-5cm lengths
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 1 cup stock or water

    Pound:
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 6 shallots
  • 1 tbsp preserved soya beans (tau cheong)
  • 50g dried prawns
  • 12 dried chillies, soaked

    Seasoning:
  • 1 tsp sugar or to taste
  • 1 tsp chicken stock granules
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • 1 tbsp Nampla (fish sauce)

    Garnishing:
  • Chopped spring onions and coriander
  • 2 limes, cut into wedges
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs, quartered
  • 1 red chilly, sliced
  • Shallot crisps

    Method
    Heat oil in a wok and stir-fry ground ingredients until fragrant. Add prawns and stock, then bring to a boil and simmer for five minutes.

    Add meehoon and beansprouts. Stir-fry. Mix in beancurd slices and toss the meehoon well. Add seasoning and a squeeze of lime juice and toss again.

    Dish mee siam onto platter. Garnish before serving.

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