Bami Goreng

Submitted by Daydream

"Exotic, tropical, cosmopolitan Broome, an old pearling town in Western Australia, is a popular holiday destination. On market day, stall vendors whip up a wonderfully tempting array of dishes. This is one."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 lb hokkien noodles
• 3 tablespoons peanut oil
• 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 2 teaspoons dried shrimp paste (trassi)
• 2 teaspoons sambal oelek
• 1 red bell pepper, sliced into julienne strips
• 8 ounces Chinese cabbage, thinly sliced
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce
• 3 tablespoons ketjap manis (sweet Indonesian soy sauce)
• 1⁄4 cup tomato sauce or 1/4 cup catsup
• 1⁄2 cup chicken stock (or more/less as needed)
• 1⁄4 cup chopped peanuts
• cilantro leaf, chopped,to garnish
• lime wedge

directions

1. Prepare noodles as per instruction on the packet, then drain and set aside.
2. Heat wok and add the oil.
3. Stir-fry the onion and garlic for a couple of minutes, then add dried shrimp paste and sambal oelek and saute a further minute, or until fragrant.
4. Add vegetables and toss quickly until cooked but still crunchy.
5. Finally added prepared noodles with fish sauce, kecap manis and tomato sauce.
6. Stir through until well flavored and heated through.
7. Add chicken stock to moisten further if necessary.
8. Serve garnished with peanuts and cilantro, and offer wedges of lime.

Reviews

[Chef floWer]

Very pretty dish with nice flavours. I used all the ingredients (no substitutes) and followed your perfect directions. Next time I might use one tablespoon of sambal oelek as it didn't have the kick I was looking for. Thank you Daydream

 

[Jewelies]

Fabulous, quick and easy meal. A bonus was that most of the ingredients I had on hand. Recipe full of lots of wonderful flavours. Definite make again for us. Thanks for posting Daydream!

 

[Magpie Jo]

These noodles are very good - lots of flavour, moist and delicious! I made them as written, except for garnishing with green onions as I had no coriander. I will certainly be making these again. Thanks Daydream, I've been on the lookout for good noodle recipes and yours certainly is!

 

[currybunny]

By far the best vegetarian noodles we've eaten - what a great recipe! I used a large carrot instead of the capsicum and not quite as much tomato sauce as called for; I found these were already very moist and didn't need any stock. Like Kookaburra I just tossed through some lime juice before serving, and DH coudln't stop raving, thank you very much for the recipe!

 

[Kookaburra]

I ate this 3 hours ago and the taste is still waltzing around in my mouth! Exquisite! I made the recipe pretty well exactly as written, except I substituted flavourless olive oil + 1/2 tsp of sesame oil for the peanut oil, and reduced the sambal oelek to 1/2 teaspoon - hot enough for us! I was also a little timid about the amount of shrimp paste. I used a rounded teaspoon, but it wasn't overpowering, and next time I'll be brave and use the full 2 teaspoons. I had fresh Hokkein Noodles and I only needed a splash of chicken stock at the end. Instead of serving with the lime wedges, I just squeezed 1/4 of a lime over the finished dish. This made a wonderful, tasty and different light weekend supper. We'll be having it often!