Prawn Noodles - Soupy Noodles #1

It was near Chinese New Year's Day (somewhere Dec 2011) in addition to I have a lot of prawn shells inwards the freezer that needs clearing upward. I’ve never made prawn noodles earlier together with I’ve been planning for my maiden endeavor since months ago. I lastly made it when I got roughly prissy fresh prawns once more.

I thought it’second difficult. But hey no, it took me only a picayune spell to brand this for dinner. The well-nigh difficult part could be cleaning the shallots and that’second simply it. The residuum was quite a breeze.

I used then much prawn shells too heads, that the soup tasted real rattling squeamish alongside no use of chicken carcass or stock cube. None at all. I referred to these two websites to get a general idea and came upward with this. Delicious!

I know just about of yous mightiness discover it weird to accept pork slices, but inwards my hometown, we make have this alongside our prawn noodle at Malai Wong. I run across them fishing out huge slabs of pork loin in addition to slicing it after.

Prawn Noodles

Recipe: WendyinKK
Reference: My Wok Life in addition to Eating Pleasure
Serves:6-8, depending on amount of broth inward each bowl as well as component part size

Broth
viii-x cups prawn shells in addition to heads(mine was 725gm)
200gm pork loin
500gm fresh prawns
iv Tbsp cooking crude oil
ane cherry onion, quartered
2 clove of garlic, smashed
ii Tbsp Shao Xing wine
4L water
ane Tbsp stone sugar
Salt to gustation

1. Put H2O into a large pot as well as bring to boil. Put inwards pork loin.
ii. While waiting for the H2O to boil. Fry shells. Put prawn shells into wok in addition to small fry until no more juices come up out and looks dry out. Pour inwards rock oil too on medium heat, fry until the shells are rattling fragrant together with has all turned pink/cerise/orangish.
3. Place all the fragrant prawn shells, onion, garlic, as well as vino into the boiling H2O. Bring dorsum to a boil and lower to a simmer on medium depression rut for xxx minutes.
four. Fish out the pork loin. Strain the broth. Discard the shells (yous tin rinse the shells alongside just about H2O and pour this water into the pot of broth earlier discarding, waste not yes)
5. Bring the broth back to a boil.
half-dozen. Snip feelers off prawns and position them into the pot of boiling broth. When the water comes back to a boil, fish out all the prawns, set it aside.
vii. Thinly piece the pork when it has cooled downwards.
8. Season broth with common salt and plough off the rut. Reboil when it’s most time to serve.

Chilli paste
5 fresh chillies
v aeroplane’second middle chilli (adjust to personal liking)
v shallots
ii cloves of garlic
½ tsp common salt
4 Tbsp oil (function more than petroleum if yous desire your broth to wait red)

i. Grind chillies, shallots as well as garlic to a fine paste.
two. Heat wok amongst crude, the put in the chilli glue too table salt as well as ready it on medium rut until it looks most dry(nonetheless mucilaginous) together with glossy.
three. You can either put this into the soup (afterwards boiling the prawns) or continue this for personal improver afterwards on.

Other condiments:
Rice vermicelli, soaked to soften
Yellow noodles
Fried shallots (you can child this showtime, then role the same petroleum to make chilli paste)
Beansprouts, blanched
Water convolvulus
Hard boiled eggs
White pepper

I role a noodle strainer to do this for unmarried portions. Place a handful of beansprouts in addition to roughly water convolvulus into a strainer. Top alongside rice vermicelli + yellow noodles. Dip the strainer into the boiling water for a few seconds and pour the contents into a noodle bowl. Put 1tsp chilli paste too about white pepper onto the noodles, ladle the soup over the paste to dissolve. Top amongst eggs, prawn as well as pork slices. Lastly, sprinkle on fried shallots.