Thursday, December 25, 2008

No-Recipe Asian Noodles

Actually, this recipe started out as a Non-Recipe dish. One day I just had all these ingredients in my kitchen and based on what I've seen and tasted, I whipped up my own Asian stir-fry noodles. You can change the vegetables according to your preferences. For the oyster sauce mixture, it really all depends on your tastebuds. Sometimes, I add a bit of muscovado sugar to balance the saltiness of the oyster-fish sauce combo with the spiciness of the Thai seasoning or dried chili flakes. You can make the dish more spicy by adding more chili flakes.

Ingredients:

  • 1 pack of Hofan Noodles
  • ½ kilo shrimps, shelled
  • 1 cup julienned carrots
  • 1/2 cup red bell pepper, sliced as strips
  • 1 cup shiitake mushrooms
  • 1 cake tofu, deep-fried & sliced into thick strips
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 6 tbsps oyster sauce (dilute in a 1 tbsp water)
  • 2 tbsps fish sauce
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • Salt & Pepper to taste
  • celery leaves sliced 2 inches long (add it last after fire is off)
  • Thai seasoning or dried chili flakes

Directions:
  1. Cook hofan noodles according to package directions. Drain and mix 2 tbsps oil to prevent noodles from sticking
  2. Sauté shrimps and red bell pepper in a bit of oil. When shrimps are almost cooked, add carrots. Then add fried bean curd.
  3. Pour in beaten eggs. Wait until egg sets before mixing in.
  4. In a separate bowl, mix oyster sauce with fish sauce, lemon juice and a dash of Thai seasoning.
  5. Add the oyster sauce mixture into the shrimp mixture and season w/ salt & pepper. Mix in celery leaves & fold into hofan noodles. Serve hot.

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