Mee Jawa

Serves : 4

Ingredients :

500g mee / fresh yellow noodles (scalded and drained)

Fried and diced
2 pieces fish cakes
2 pieces bean curd
1 packet fishballs

150g beansprouts (blanched)
50g fried shallots
1 sweet potato (boiled and mashed)
20g groundnuts (dry-fried, skinned and ground)
2 hard boilded eggs (halved)
1 teaspoon tamarind juice

Sliced
15g Chinese celery
1 red chilli
1 green chilli

2 limes (halved)
2 litre water
oil for stir-frying
salt, sugar to taste


Ground ingredients
8 dried chillies
4 shallots
4 cloves garlic
2cm piece young ginger
2cm piece dried shrimp paste




Method :

1.Heat the oil in a large pan. Stir-fry the ground ingredients till the aroma rises. Put in the salt, sugar, water, sweet potatoes, groundnuts and tamarind juice. Bring to the boil, stirring once in a while.
2.Place mee in individual bowls. Then sprinkle helpings of fish cakes, fish balls, beancurd, beansprouts and eggs.
3.Pour the hot gravy and scatter the sliced ingredients and fried shallots on the mee. Squeeze some lime juice, then serve immediately.