CHICKEN KWETIAU SIRAM
Chicken Kwetiau Siram?? is it char kway teow?? nope. actually, I don't what it is called in English. Chicken Kwetiau Siram is a flat rice noodle served with chicken thick sauce, this chicken kwetiau siram is already experiencing the improvisation from fried flat noodles aka kwetiau goreng. If i prefer chicken kwetiau siram compared to kwetiau goreng, because kwetiau goreng contains much oil then kwetiau siram.
To cook chicken kwetiau siram I prefer using fresh flat rice noodles then dry flat rice noodles cause it more simple and very easy to cook and can save time too. Fresh flat rice noodles chewier than the dry one, in my country, is very easily to found fresh flat rice noodles on the traditional market or supermarket. To choose a good fresh flat rice noodles is by pressed using your hand and if feels supple and flexible then is still fresh made and if it's not then you should leave it.
Chicken kwetiau siram is quite popular in my country especially in Medan city, lots of chicken kwetiau siram or variant of delicious kwetiau cuisine in medan. You can use any kind of meats to cook kwetiau goreng or kwetiau siram such as chicken, beef, pork or even seafood. Just suite your taste and develop your cooking skill with a new idea. The key to cooking chicken kwetiau siram or any kind of kwetiau to be delicious is "Fire", use over high heat during the cooking process, so we can get the maximum result from the flavor of kwetiau.
OK here is the chicken kwetiau recipe, you can try it at your lovely kitchen and serve it to your lovely family, I should go now cause I want o to see a horror movie with my lovely husband today, it's very awesome horror movie. It's called THE CONJURING 2.
See you at my next new recipe.
Ingredients :
- 100 Fresh flat rice noodles
- 100 grams chicken meat
- 20 grams mustard greens
- 10 grams bean sprout
- 1 egg
- 250 ml chicken stock
- 2 small cloves garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon oyster sauce
- 1 teaspoon Kikkoman soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon M.S.G
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon fish sauce
- 2 tablespoon cooking oil
- cornstarch for thickener
Directions :
- Cut the chicken meat into juliennes and add a pinch of salt and pepper.
- Cut the mustard greens into 3 cm long.
- Pick and discard the part of root bean sprout or you can just use it if you like.
- Chop garlic.
- Chicken Delicious Stok : Mix 250 ml chicken stok, 1/2 teaspoon oyster sauce, 1 teaspoon Kikkoman soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon M.S.G, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, 1 teaspoon fish sauce in a bow and stir well.
- Mix Cornstarch : just add 2 teaspoon cornstarch powder with 2 tablespoon water and mix well.
Methods :
- Flat rice noodles and egg : heat a little oil in a frying pan, put in the egg first and follow it with flat rice noodles and saute over high heat about 15 seconds and you will smell a "delicious" flavor, remove and lay on the plate.
- Thick Chicken Sauce : heat 2 tablespoons cooking oil into a frying pan, put in chopped garlic, chicken meat and mustard greens stir fry about 30 seconds over high heat and pour the Chicken Delicious Stok in, boil again about 45 second to 60 seconds then thicken with mix cornstarch, and don't forget to add the bean sprout on the last process, stir well, remove and pour on top the flat rice noodles.
- It's READY TO SERVE.
