Mee Rebus

Mee Rebus is a popular Malay noodle dish. The dish is made of yellow noodles served with thick gravy that is slightly sweet-spicy garnished with beansprouts, fried beancurds, hard boiled egg, green chilli and fried shallot. No one can resist a satisfying bowl of noodles especially with freshly squeezed calamansi which adds tang and brightens up the dish.

Mee Rebus

      Ingredients: serves 4 (recipe from newspaper cutting)
      1 kg Yellow noodles
      4 Hard boiled eggs
      2-3 pcs Tau Kwa (firm bean curd)
      1 Lemon grass
      1 Thumb size Galangal (5g)
      4 tbsp Fermented soy bean paste (tau cheow)
      4 Potatoes (about 600g)
      50ml Coconut milk
      4 tbsp Curry powder
      1 tbsp Dark soya sauce
      1 tsp Sugar
      1 tsp Chicken powder
      600-800ml Water
      Fried shallot and green chilli as garnishing

Method:

• Scrub potatoes and remove skin and chop to pieces and place in a pot of water. Boil potatoes until soften and mash till smooth.
• Cut tau kwa to small cubes and shallow fry to golden brown set aside.
• Remove the outer part of lemongrass, clean and slice lemongrass and together with the galangal, pound or grind to fine.
• Heat up 2 tbsp of oil in wok. Add in pounded lemongrass and galangal and fry together with fermented soy bean paste. coconut milk, stir fry well for about 3 minutes at medium heat.
• Add sugar, chicken powder, dark soya sauce and curry powder into it, stir well and add in 600ml water. 
• Add in mashed potatoes and stir gravy to soft with a hand whisk and simmer for about 10 mins.
• If you find the gravy is still too thick, add more little water to it or mix some corn starch with little water as thickening if the gravy is too watery.
• To serve, blanch yellow noodles and bean sprouts in boiling water, drain well and place in serving bowl.
• Spoon the hot gravy over the noodles and top with cubed tau kwa, fried shallots, hard boiled egg and calamansi. 

Enjoy!

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