Malay Prawn Noodle (Mee Udang)
Mee Udang (Malay Prawn Noodle) recipe - A plate of yellow noodles topped with huge fresh prawns in sourish tomato gravy. It is indeed appealing.
Servings: 2 people
Calories: 437kcal
Ingredients
- 250 g (8oz) yellow noodle
- 600 g (20 oz) big-sized sea prawns I got 8 big prawns
- 5 tablespoons tomato sauce
- 200 g (7 oz) tomatoes, diced
- 400 ml water
- 4 cloves garlic peeled and chopped
- 6 shallots peeled and sliced
- cooking oil
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 ½ tablespoons chili paste
- light soy sauce to taste
Garnishing:
- 3 leaves lettuce thinly sliced
- 2 eggs hard-boiled, peeled and halved
- 2 calamansi lime halved
- 1 stalk spring onion chopped
- 1/4 onion thinly sliced
- fried crispy shallot
Instructions
- Blend the diced tomatoes with 400 ml (13 oz.) of water. Set aside.
- Blanch the yellow noodle and set aside.
- Heat enough oil in a wok, deep fried sliced shallot till golden brown, set aside.
- Leave about 2 tbsp of oil in the wok, saute garlic till fragrant. Add prawns and stir fry with 1 tbsp of light soy sauce for 1 minute.
- Pour in the tomato puree. Add tomato sauce and chili paste. Bring the gravy to simmer under medium heat. Add sugar and light soy sauce to taste.
- Add in the yellow noodle to the simmering gravy. Mix well.
- Serve up and garnish with onion, spring onion, egg, lettuce, calamansi lime and fried shallot.
Nutrition
Serving: 2people | Calories: 437kcal | Carbohydrates: 124g | Protein: 85g | Fat: 29g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 942mg | Sodium: 5166mg | Fiber: 9g | Sugar: 27g