An easy one pot dish but bursting with flavour. This dish is quite simple to prepare; with only two main ingredients; the glass noodle or what we call it as tanghoon and prawn. The rest are just seasoning and spice. I pan fried the prawn with sufficient oil that would leave me some prawn oil to stir-fry the rest of the ingredients. The noodle infused with prawn oil, making it more fragrant and delicious. Try it, you won’t regret it. =)
Ingredients
- 210g tanghoon or glass noodle (soaked in tap water for about 20 minutes to soften then drain the liquid, set aside)
- 8 big prawn (legs and antennae trimmed off, deveined, washed and pat dry. Marinated with 3 tbs of cooking wine then leave for 20 minutes then wash and pat dry again)
- 1/4 cup oil (Note that I am using measuring cup and measuring spoons)
- 15g sliced garlic
- 2 coarsely chopped shallots
- 1 Spring onion (white part split open and sliced thinly, set aside the green part for garnish)
- thumb sized minced ginger
Seasoning
- 400g water
- 2 tbs oyster sauce
- 2 tbs sesame oil
- 2 tbs light soy sauce (Jiang Qing preferably)
- 1g star anise or 1 pc star anise
- 3 tsp dark soy sauce
- 3 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp white pepper
Garnish
- Spring Onion (green chopped)
Method
- Mix all seasoning ingredients and place the noodles. Set aside.
- Heat up the claypot at medium high fire, drizzle the 1/4 cup oil. Fry the prawn until it is about 80 percent cooked before taking it out. Leave the prawn oil in the claypot to stir fry the noodle.
- Add in the noodle, stir fry for about 15 seconds. Add in 2/3 of the seasoning liquid and stir fry continuously so that all the noodles will slowly absorb the liquid seasoning. Infusing all the flavours in each bite.
- Drizzle in the rest of the seasoning, stir fry for 10-15 seconds, add in the prawn by laying on top of the noodles, then lid on. Turn down the heat to medium, and allow it to cook for about 2-3 minutes to fully cook the prawn and leaving little liquid behind (this is to keep your noodle moist upon serving).
- Turn off the heat. Remove from the stove and garnish with chopped spring onion. Serve hot.
frying the prawn Stir frying the spices with the prawn oil