Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, char kway teow. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Char Kway Teow is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Char Kway Teow is something which I have loved my entire life.
Noodles: Char Kway Teow ("CKT") is made with wide, flat fresh noodles, available in the refrigerated section of Asian grocery stores and some supermarkets in the fridge section (Harris Farms in Australia). Char kway teow is traditionally stir-fried in pork fat, with crisp croutons of pork lard. In Penang, Char kway teow is commonly served on a piece of banana leaf on a plate, so as to enhance the aroma on the noodles. Char kway teow has a reputation of being unhealthy due to its high saturated fat content.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook char kway teow using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Char Kway Teow:
- Make ready 250 g rice fresh noodles (can use dry rice noodles)
- Take 150 g chicken breasts (sliced)
- Make ready 1 egg
- Get 1 tbsp soysauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp fishsauce
- Get 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Make ready 1 tsp dark soysauce
- Take 1 tsp sugar
- Get 1 pack mix stir fried vegetables
- Make ready 2 clove garlic
- Take 1 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
- Get Sauce for marinate
- Take 1 tsp sesame oil
- Take 1 tsp soysauce
- Get 1 tsp oyster sauce
- Prepare 1 tbsp corn flour
Char kway teow is a Southeast Asian noodle dish of Chinese origin that is composed of stir-fried wide rice noodles, light and dark soy sauce, belachan (shrimp paste), prawns, chili, Chinese sausage , bean sprouts, and chives. Char kway teow, which means "fried flat noodles," is a popular and cheap dish found in Malaysia and Singapore. Hearty and filling, it started out as a poor laborer's meal, but over time its popularity spread to all classes. Char kway teow was originally stir-fried in lard, which is how it got its reputation as fatty, unhealthy meal.
Steps to make Char Kway Teow:
- You can find homemade rice noodles from this link cookpad.com/uk/recipes/12505717-homemade-fresh-rice-noodles
- If you use dry rice noodles just soak in hot water for 2-3 mins then drain.
- Marinate your chicken the soysauce, oyster sauce, corn flour and sesame oil for 10 mins.
- On a medium heat wok, add cooking oil and garlic. Stir well, chicken in and mix well, once chicken cooked about 60% add soysauce, fishsauce, oyster sauce, sugar and mix well.
- Add your noodles, have a quick stir then add some mix stir fried vegetables then add dark soysauce. Move noodles to one side and add egg in, leave it cook for a min then start mixing the egg with the rest of the noodles, then seasoning with pepper. Serve with wedge of lime.
Hearty and filling, it started out as a poor laborer's meal, but over time its popularity spread to all classes. Char kway teow was originally stir-fried in lard, which is how it got its reputation as fatty, unhealthy meal. Char Kuey Teow is basically flat rice noodles stir-fried with shrimp, bloody cockles, Chinese lap cheong (sausage), eggs, bean sprouts, and chives in a mix of soy sauce. Then use tongs to remove them from the soaking liquid. Reserve the soaking liquid in case you need it when blending.
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