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Happy Birthday with
Longevity Blessings
Birthday Noodle for
Longevity
To Asians, noodle, apart from rice, constitutes
a staple diet too. To the Chinese, under all circumstances, noodle, be it fried, braised,
or soup,
must be long.
Fried Birthday noodle for Longevity
blessings
Noodle symbolizes long live!. It is
indispensable in Chinese birthday celebration.
(Serve 8; cook time 5 minutes)
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| Longevity noodle to celebrate your birthday |
Ingredient:
- 500 g
wheat noodle, or Hong Kong noodle,
blanched and drained dry.
refer to
pre-cooked
noodle
preparation.
- 3 tbsp cooking oil
- 2 dry mushrooms,
pre-soaked overnight,
or
- 8 button mushrooms, sliced
- 3 stalks spring onion, cut
- 200 g beef, sliced across grains, marinated
with 2 tbsp
soy sauce, 1 tsp
corn flour and pepper
- 1 carrot, shredded
- 1/2 capsicum, sliced
- bean sprout, variable
- 1/2 cup chicken soup broth
- 2 tbsp
soy sauce
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 pips garlic, chopped
- 5 shallots, chopped
Method
- Heat oil. Add onion, then garlic, then
mushroom, fry till fragrant over low heat.
- Add carrot, fry for 30 seconds.
- Switch to high heat, add beef,
stir fry
briskly for 1
minute. Dish out.
- Boil chicken soup in the wok.
- Add noodle,
stir fry
briskly for less than
1 minute.
- Add every other ingredients, including salt,
pepper and
soy sauce;
stir and mix well,
but taking care not the break or cut the
noodle strands short
- Switch of fire. By now, the noodle
should be
dry and ready to be served.
- Serve with chili sauce.
- Chili sauces
greatly enhance the noodle taste.
sssSSH... Grandma
said: If you are a novice in noodle cooking, test the noodle
strength. It should be tensile enough to withstand the
pulling.
Prepare
sssSSH... Grandma
said: Both dishes are very tasty and delicious, with the
compliments of
chili sauce, amidst the party mood of a
birthday.
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Birthday soup noodle for
longevity blessings
(serve 8, cook time 60 minutes)
Ingredients:
- 200 g shrimps, shelled (keep
shell for soup stock)
- 400 g chicken breast meat
- 200 g belly pork
- 1.5 liter water
- 400 g yellow
wheat noodle,
blanched
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- 3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
- 2 tbsp of
corn flour in 1/2 cup of water as corn flour mixture
- 1 tablespoon light
soy sauce
Garnishing:
Method: How good is this dish depends on
how good
is the soup broth. Preparation of soup broth :
- Heat 1 tbsp cooking oil.
- Sauté garlic
and prawn shells till fragrant.
- Add water till boil. Add chicken and
pork meat, simmer for 20 minutes. Dish out the belly pork,
but continue to simmer the soup stock for
another 30
minutes. Sieve.
Add corn flour
mixture to thicken the soup
- Add salt, pepper and soy sauce.
- Slice thinly the pork, sauté for better
aroma.
- Sauté prawns to be used for garnishing.
To serve:
- In a deep serving plate or bowl, place
1 handful of noodle at the bottom.
- Top with garnishing: bean sprout,
chili, cilantro, shrimps, pork, fried shallots.
- Add soup just enough to cover all.
- Serve hot with chili sauce,
sambal belacan
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Blessings |
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