Mee hoon kuey is a very popular dish in all Chinese homes. It is also called homemade hand-pulled noodle. It is a comfort dish when the weather is cool or it is a rainy day. You can serve this mee hoon kuey either in soup or dry version. But I personally like it in soup base. We always make ikan bilis soup and keep it in the freezer. The dough can be made in advance and kept inside the freezer until you want to cook it.
Mee Hoon Kueh aka hand-pulled noodle
Recipe source from : Fiona Low
What you need :-
Dough
-300g all purpose flour
-1 large egg
-2 tbsp sunflower oil
-130g water - you may not need to use it all
Soup base:-
-Ikan bilis soup
Other ingredients:-
-sliced mushroom
-sliced pork (marinate with some soy sauce and pepper)
-marinated minced pork - for recipe, click here
-prawns
-fish cake (optional)
-baby spinach
Garnished :-
-fried shallots
Method for the dough:-
1) Using a Magicmix gadget, put in the flour, egg and oil with the machine still running, slowly add in the water until it forms a dough.
2) Scoop the ikan bilis soup base into a small pot ( for cooking and serving individually ), add in the mushroom and the sliced pork.
3) Add in the minced pork by rolling them into a ball like making pork balls.
4) Now start to hand-pull the noodle (as thin as possible) and drop them into the soup base according to your amount of serving.
5) Add in the prawns and the vegetables and let it boil for 3 minutes or until the noodle is cooked.
6) Garnished with fried shallots
7) Serve hot and dip with chili padi
These are the ingredients I used but you can also replace with others ingredients that you prefer.
The ready dough is waiting to be pulled!! hahaha...
The best part in tasting the delicious mee hoon kueh is the soup base. Here come my mum's homemade ikan bilis soup! As I mentioned above, we would normally boil this soup base in a big pot for a few hours and then let it cool down, pack it and keep it in the freezer. That is why you still can see the ice cube there. No worry, the taste is still taste awesome!
How can you miss these two things when its comes to eating mee hoon kueh! Even my 10 years old boy is looking for it.
We never get bored of eating mee hoon kueh every week. Because it is so delicious! This weekly practice had made my skill of pulling the noodle as thin as possible successful!
The secret of a tasty mee hoon kueh also came from the love one who prepared it for you. Why I said that because my mum helped me to pulled the noodle while I stand beside her and wait! hahahahaha.....
Note : This mee hoon kueh taste better if you cook it per serving at a time.
Happy cooking!
