May 4, 2009
Mee Rebus
Category: Recipe
Nothing fishy; just very savoury and meaty. The ingredients are not that expensive and to me, it is a rather humble-looking dish.
I have also added a home-made bergedil as an add-on to the dish, just because.
Mee Rebus
2015-07-15 09:48:23
Ingredients
- 150-300g fresh yellow egg or chowmein noodles
- 150g beef, thinly sliced into small pieces and boiled
- 6 cups beef stock used from the boiled beef
- 1 non-MSG beef stock cube
- 3 tbsp Vegetable oil
- 3 Candlenuts (I used abt 2-3 tbsp of raw peanuts, roasted in oven and grounded as a substitute)
- 3-4 tbsp Chili paste (blended from dried chillies)
- 1 tbsp Coriander powder
- 1/2 inch turmeric root
- 1 inch fresh galangal
- 20 Shallots or 4 mid-sized red onions
- 2-4 Small sweet potatoes, peeled, cooked and mashed
- Salt to taste
For Garnishing
- • Fried shallots
- • Pre-fried tofu or soy bean cakes, cut into small cubes
- • Bean sprouts, briefly blanched
- • Hard boiled eggs, cut in wedges
- • 3-4 limau kasturi (lime), cut into halves
- • Fresh green chillies, thinly sliced
Instructions
- Boil beef separately till tender and drain the liquid from the beef to use it as stock. Set aside both boiled beef and broth
- Grind candlenuts/peanuts, chili paste, turmeric root, shallots, galangal and coriander powder into a fine paste.
- Heat pot on medium flame, add vegetable oil.
- Cook paste until quite toasted.
- Add in the boiled beef earlier and mix in thoroughly
- Add some of the beef stock liquid and cube, bring it to a boil.
- Slowly add the mashed sweet potato to the stock, till a gravy-like consistency is reached.
- Add salt to taste , decrease the heat to low, simmer gently 8 to10 minutes
- Add more mashed sweet potato if gravy is too thin or more beef stock if the gravy is too thick
- Keep gravy hot on the low-medium heat, for serving.
- Take another pot and boil some water. This is used for blanching (dipping) bean sprouts and warming up noodles.
- When ready to serve, blanch a handful of bean sprouts with some noodles in a sieve into the hot boiling water
- Place them in a dish and ladle over the piping warm gravy over noodles.
- Top with a little of each garnishing.
Notes
- My mom had mentioned taocheow or fermented soya beans can also be a good substitute to the nuts for a better taste. Will give it a go next time
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Comments
You can change to potatoes instead of Candlenut, peanuts & sweet potatoes. Candlenuts cravy cannot last longer and for sweet potatoes the gravy will taste a bit sweet not so nice. Give yourself a try…hehehe its looks tasty. Ops I remember you don’t really like eat Mee Rebus
hee..hee..i will try again with your tips and perfect this dish! it’s not really my favourite..but once in a while, it’s actually quite nice!