Penang Hawker Food - How to cook Mee Jawa (Mee Jawa Recipe)

Scalded yellow noodles and bean sprouts served in gravy which is made from pork stock and flavoured with tomato ketchup. It is garnished with sliced eggs, boiled potato slices, sliced fried beancurd, sliced boiled egg and prawn fritters.

Hawker food in Penang
by Yue Li

source taken from: http://www.worldisround.com/

MEE JAWA RECIPE

Ingredients

# 1kg yellow noodles
# 1kg medium prawns
# 500g sweet potatoes, mashed
# 50g gula melaka
# 2-3 heaped tbsp cornstarch
# 1/2 cup oil
# salt and pepper
# 2.5 l water

Herb paste (blend or pound):
# 3 stalks lemon grass
# 6 shallots
# 4 pips garlic
# 4 cm ginger
# 4 cm galangal
# 5 red chillies

Method

Heat oil and fry the paste till fragrant.add prawn stock, simmer and bring to a boil. Stir in the mashed potatoes and thicken with the cornstarch and season with sugar and salt and pepper.

Serve with fried tofu, slices of hard boiled egg, prawns, beansprouts, potatoes and a squeeze of lime juice.

To make prawn stock: Bring 2.5 litre water to a boil and pour in the prawns. When prawns are cooked, dish them out. Shell the prawns and keep aside for the noodles. Return the prawn shells to the pot to make prawn stock. Continue boiling the stock for another 30 minutes. Discard the shells.

source: http://kuali.com/recipes/