Rice Noodles With Peanut Sauce
A tasty fusion noodle dish from the hawker centres of Singapore
Ingredients
3-4 large prawns
5 cleaned baby squid
6 fried tofu pok pieces
5-6 lime leaves
2 leaves sweetheart cabbage or green cabbage
1 green chilli
150g thin rice vermicelli
The Satay Sauce Base
10 Thai shallots / 2 red onions
1 bulb garlic
50g galangal
1 lemongrass stalk
4-5 large red chillies
5-6 lime leaves
1 tsp belacan (dried shrimp paste)
handful candlenuts / macadamia nuts / cashews
400g crushed roasted salted peanuts
The Satay Sauce Liquid
3 tbsp tamarind concentrate
1L hot water
1 tbsp palm sugar
4-5 tbsp kecap manis
Method
Preparation
- Roughly chop your Thai shallots and place in the pestle and mortar. Roughly chop and blitz the rest of the ‘The Satay Sauce Base’ ingredients in a food processor,and then add, along with the Thai shallots, to the pestle and mortar. Pound those ingredients until you get a slightly smooth paste, with a few course bits. Mix in a tsp of shrimp paste, followed by the candlenuts. Keep pounding the mixture, until you have a coarse paste. Blitz your peanuts.
Cooking
Heat 2-3 tbsp of vegetable oil. Once the oil has reached a medium heat, add 6 Tbsps of the paste. Fry on a medium heat, allowing some of the paste to caramelise, but not burn. While the sauce is slowly cooking away, slice open and score your squid diagonally, and cut into bite size pieces.
Now add the tamarind concentrate to the paste. Followed by the palm sugar and kecap manis. Turn the heat up and mix together. Once the paste is bubbling up, add your crushed up peanuts with a pinch of salt. Top up with boiling water to create the consistency of a soup.
Now add the squid and lime leaves. Bring to a boil and then lower the heat.
Cut the tofu pok in half and add to the satay sauce. Allow to simmer for 30-40 minutes.
Peel and devein the prawns and then slice along the top of the prawns to butterfly them out.
Finely slice the green cabbage / sweetheart cabbage into matchsticks.
Soak the vermicelli in hot water for 2-3 minutes until they have lost their packet shape, drain through a sieve and dry on a clean tea towel.
After 30-40 minutes season the satay sauce to taste with salt. Pop the noodles into boiling water for 10 seconds to heat up. Take the noodles out and put the cabbage in for 30 seconds. And finally boil your prawns for two minutes.
Now compile your dish. Start with a nest of noodles, add the cabbage on top, followed by your prawns. Then pour your satay sauce over the noodle
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3-4 large prawns
5 cleaned baby squid
6 fried tofu pok pieces
5-6 lime leaves
2 leaves sweetheart cabbage or green cabbage
1 green chilli
150g thin rice vermicelli
The Satay Sauce Base
10 Thai shallots / 2 red onions
1 bulb garlic
50g galangal
1 lemongrass stalk
4-5 large red chillies
5-6 lime leaves
1 tsp belacan (dried shrimp paste)
handful candlenuts / macadamia nuts / cashews
400g crushed roasted salted peanuts
The Satay Sauce Liquid
3 tbsp tamarind concentrate
1L hot water
1 tbsp palm sugar
4-5 tbsp kecap manis
Preparation
- Roughly chop your Thai shallots and place in the pestle and mortar. Roughly chop and blitz the rest of the ‘The Satay Sauce Base’ ingredients in a food processor,and then add, along with the Thai shallots, to the pestle and mortar. Pound those ingredients until you get a slightly smooth paste, with a few course bits. Mix in a tsp of shrimp paste, followed by the candlenuts. Keep pounding the mixture, until you have a coarse paste. Blitz your peanuts.
Cooking
Heat 2-3 tbsp of vegetable oil. Once the oil has reached a medium heat, add 6 Tbsps of the paste. Fry on a medium heat, allowing some of the paste to caramelise, but not burn. While the sauce is slowly cooking away, slice open and score your squid diagonally, and cut into bite size pieces.
Now add the tamarind concentrate to the paste. Followed by the palm sugar and kecap manis. Turn the heat up and mix together. Once the paste is bubbling up, add your crushed up peanuts with a pinch of salt. Top up with boiling water to create the consistency of a soup.
Now add the squid and lime leaves. Bring to a boil and then lower the heat.
Cut the tofu pok in half and add to the satay sauce. Allow to simmer for 30-40 minutes.
Peel and devein the prawns and then slice along the top of the prawns to butterfly them out.
Finely slice the green cabbage / sweetheart cabbage into matchsticks.
Soak the vermicelli in hot water for 2-3 minutes until they have lost their packet shape, drain through a sieve and dry on a clean tea towel.
After 30-40 minutes season the satay sauce to taste with salt. Pop the noodles into boiling water for 10 seconds to heat up. Take the noodles out and put the cabbage in for 30 seconds. And finally boil your prawns for two minutes.
Now compile your dish. Start with a nest of noodles, add the cabbage on top, followed by your prawns. Then pour your satay sauce over the noodle
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