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If you read food blogs, I am sure you already know the fabulous food blog PigPig’s Corner authored by the lovely Ann and Jeff, a Malaysian couple based in the United Kingdom.
Pig Pig’s Corner covers both recipes and also restaurant reviews; regardless of what they post, I am always drooling over their foods.
This week, I started off the hawker food post with Penang Curry Mee, and PigPig’s Corner is sharing her mee rebus recipe today. Please do check out the mee rebus gallery that Ann is sharing with us, I am hungry at the sight of those golden brown and crispy prawn fritters and the mouthwatering mee rebus!
Please give your warmest welcome to PigPig’s Corner and thanks for sharing such a wonderful family recipe.
Mee rebus is one of the many noodles dishes popular in Malaysia. It is yellow noodles served with a thick spicy potato-based gravy and garnished with a hard-boiled egg, spring onions, bean sprouts, fried shallots, tau kwa (dried/ fried beancurd) and lime juice. Although I mentioned popular, I’ve never tried it until my mum-in-law’s version, due to the many other distractions of course.
I fell in love with it when I took my first bite. The gravy is really thick, rich and flavourful with a hint of sourness from the tamarind paste and also the lime juice.
My mum-in-law serves it with cucur udang/ bawang (prawns and onions fritters), which I think makes a great accompaniment as the fritters soak up all that wonderful gravy. Another great addition is sambal, which adds an extra ‘kick’ to the dish.
I got this mee rebus recipe from her during her last visit and I was quite surprised as it is relatively easy to prepare. She only gave me the list of ingredients without the exact amounts, which I can understand why.
Everything depends on what type of curry paste you use as well as potatoes. Cooking involves trial and error, so just play around with the amounts and adjust to your own taste.
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Mee Rebus
Ingredients
Gravy:
- 1 packet instant chicken curry paste (more or less to taste)
- 10 small potatoes – peeled and but into large chunks
- 6-7 cups low sodium chicken stock OR water
- 1 tbs assam (tamarind paste – seeds removed)
- 1 tbs sugar
- 2 Knorr chicken stock cubes
- Salt
Garnishings:
- Hard-boiled eggs
- Spring onions
- Fried shallots
- Bean sprouts
- Your favourite sambal
Instructions
- Place chopped dried prawns, fresh prawns, onions and chives in a large mixing bowl. Add flour and water, mix until a smooth paste forms. Season with chicken stock, pepper and sugar.
- Heat up oil in a pan or a pot for deep frying. Drop a spoon full (I used a Chinese soup spoon) of batter into the oil and deep fry until golden browned. Avoid overcrowding the pan and do this in small batches. Leave aside to cool.
- Serve with mee rebus!
I have to agree with Nabil
This is not the real mee rebus !
I have always liked Rasa Malaysia’s recipes but this one on mee rebus is a big disappointment!
I am sorry to hear that. This mee rebus recipe was contributed by a guest blogger.
This is NOT proper mee rebus. Not even close…You are disgracing yourself and Malaysian food. Wake Up!
Nabil, there is NO NEED for you to be so mean to my guest contributor who contributed the recipe. Please be graceful.
You’re a very nasty person.
This guy is not a proper human being. NOT EVEN CLOSE! Your family should be ashamed of you. God bless your innocence soul.
This is one of the easiest recipe for Mee Rebus, thanks you. It’s so easy I have to try to make it this coming weekend – no excuse! Also luckily A1 chicken curry is easily available from the nearest oriental store.
Which instant chicken curry paste did you use?
A1.
Mi Rebus Medan is the same as malaysian taste noodle dish. Suitable for my dinner
It’s an easy recipe to follow. I use Tean’s curry laksa paste instead of A1 curry chicken paste. I also added some sweet potatoes and potato for the soup. Its delicious with the cucur udang! Whenever I’m looking for a recipe, I always search from your website first. Most recipes have a great outcome. Thanks! ?
I didn’t see the instructions on how to make the paste for mee rebus except for the prawn fritters.
Was it somewhere else???
I also can’t find it! :(