Singapore Hokkien Mee Recipe
Singapore Hokkien Mee Recipe

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Singapore Hokkien Mee Recipe is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Singapore Hokkien Mee Recipe is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

A mixture of yellow noodles and thick rice vermicelli ,first fried with eggs until fragrant and braised in rich, flavourful prawn broth, the Singapore Fried Hokkien Mee is served semi-dry and garnished with prawns, squid, sliced pork belly, chives and eaten with Sambal chilli and a squirt of lime juice. Preparing the Hokkien prawn soup stock from scratch is the most tedious part of the recipe but it is rewarding. If you are busy, you can substitute with store-bought chicken stock.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook singapore hokkien mee recipe using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Singapore Hokkien Mee Recipe:
  1. Get Prawn Stock:
  2. Get 1.5 liters water
  3. Make ready 500 g pork bones (or chicken bones) blanched in boiling water for 5 minutes & rinsed
  4. Get 500 g local (lala) clams
  5. Make ready 200 g prawn shells
  6. Take 1 squid (sotong) insides cleaned
  7. Make ready 8-12 small or medium prawns with shells on
  8. Get 1 tsp fish sauce to taste
  9. Take 1/4 tsp dark soy sauce to taste
  10. Take Hokkien Mee
  11. Prepare 3 tbsp lard oil (or vegetable oil) divided
  12. Get 2 small eggs lightly beaten
  13. Prepare 250 g yellow noodles
  14. Make ready 150 g rice vermicelli (bee hoon) usually thick bee hoon is used but thin bee hoon is fine as well
  15. Take 60 g bean sprouts
  16. Get 1 tbsp minced garlic
  17. Make ready 1/2 tbsp fried lard pieces optional
  18. Take 3 stalks Chinese chives (koo chye) cut to 5 cm (2 in) length
  19. Take 2 limes halved

Hokkien Hae Mee (福建炒虾面) or Fujian prawn noodles is one of the most iconic hawker dish in Singapore. The Singapore version is pale (I ate dark Hokkien Mee at Malacca before and it was heavenly delicious; but that's a totally different recipe) and uses a mixture of yellow noodles and thick (sometimes thin) rice vermicelli/bee hoon. Hokkien Mee Recipe by Isabel Ong Hokkien mee, unlike other hawker favourites like Hainanese chicken rice, was born right here in Singapore.

Steps to make Singapore Hokkien Mee Recipe:
  1. For making homemade prawn stock: In a soup pot, add water, blanched pork bones, clams, and prawn shells.
  2. When water comes to a rapid boil, add squid and prawns; cook for 2 minutes and remove from pot.
  3. When cooled, peel the prawn shell (leaving the tail on); return the prawn heads and shells back to the soup pot.
  4. Slice the squid to thin rings.
  5. Continue simmering the stock for 40 minutes and strain the broth. Season the stock with fish sauce and dark soy sauce. Yields about 500ml of rich prawn stock.
  6. For making Hokkien Mee: Heat 1 tbsp oil in wok and add beaten egg. Scramble the egg quickly with a spatula until it is semi set.
  7. Add yellow noodles, rice vermicelli, bean sprouts, another tbsp of oil and 2 ladles of prawn stock. Stir fry on high heat for 1 minute.
  8. Push the wok contents to one side, add another 1 tbsp oil to the wok. Stir fry garlic and lard pieces for 15 seconds.
  9. Add chives, mix everything together, add 2 more ladles of stock and cover with lid to simmer/braise for 3 mins.
  10. Turn off the heat. Ladle the remaining stock over the cooked noodles. Return the prepared prawns and squid into the hot wok and mix in evenly with the noodles.
  11. Divide and portion to four serving plates. Serve each plate with a cut lime and some sambal at the side.
  12. PS: Some Hokkien mee is served with pork belly as well. Par-boil a piece of pork belly together with the soup stock. Slice to smaller pieces when cooled and add them to the wok when stir-frying the Hokkien noodles.

It has its roots in Rochor Road, where fishermen would fry noodles with the leftover catches of the day. Peel and clean the prawns, leaving the tails in-tact. For the stock, place the pork bones and water in a saucepan and bring to a rapid boil over high heat. To start with, there are two types of Hokkien mee, which are Hokkien hae mee and Hokkien char mee. Hokkien hae mee (Hokkien prawn noodles) is commonly served in Singapore while Hokkien char mee (Hokkien fried noodles) is commonly served in K.

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