Singapore Fried Noodles
- 6 each shrimp noodles
- 1/2 cup shrimp dried
- 1 each eggs
- 1 teaspoon water
- 1/2 pound pork barbecued
- 2 each celery stalks
- 2 cups mung bean sprouts
- 1 each green bell peppers
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon ginger minced
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 4 tablespoons peanut oil
- 1/2 cup stock
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon hot chili pepper oil
- Rinse shrimp noodles.
- Boil noodles in water until cooked but still firm.
- These thin noodles only take about 3 minutes to reach this stage.
- Drain, reserving boiling water, and rinse with cold water until noodles are cooled and will not stick together.
- Place in oiled bowl, refrigerate until firm.
- The noodles must be firm before frying.
- Can be prepared day before.
- Wash and soak dried shrimp for 30 minutes; cut into thin pieces.
- Combine egg and water; cook as very thin omelet; cool; slice into 2 inch long shreds.
- Thinly slice pork to match.
- Blanch bean sprouts in noodle water (this water will have other uses, so hold onto it).
- Peel strings off celery stalks, thinly slice.
- Peel and halve onions, slice thinly.
- Core pepper, slice thinly in 2 inch lengths.
- Slice tomato in thin wedges.
- Mix sauce ingredients in bowl.
- Add 1/2 of peanut oil to hot wok.
- When oil begins to smoke, toss in garlic, ginger, shrimp and vegetables, except tomato; stir-fry on high heat for 2 minutes.
- Add sauce, and continue cooking until sauce reduces by half.
- Remove to holding bowl.
- Rinse wok; return to high heat; when it is dry, reduce heat to medium and add remaining peanut oil.
- Heat oil to moderate (don`t let it smoke); add curry powder, stirring to mix with oil.
- Avoid burning curry; if it burns, start over.
- Cook curry powder for about 30 seconds.
- Add noodles a fist-full at a time, breaking noodles into short pieces.
- Toss noodles to coat and heat them.
- When hot, add cooked shrimp and vegetables; toss together to mix.
- Turn off heat.
- Add pork, egg shreds and tomato wedges; mix together.
- Serve.
shrimp noodles, shrimp dried, eggs, water, pork barbecued, celery stalks, bean sprouts, green bell peppers, garlic, ginger, curry powder, peanut oil, stock, sugar, hot chili pepper oil
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/singapore-fried-noodles-46576 (may not work)