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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Birthday Claypot Yee Mein

Yan Yat is the seventh day of the lunar new year, a day designated  as 'Everyone's birthday', 'Day of Man' or 'Day of Humanity' and this is an occasion for celebration.  Everybody L-O-V-E-S Birthday, especially when Everyone Around You Celebrates on the Same Day

According to the  believers of The Goddess Nüwa, She created human beings on the seventh day, by molding them from clay, so today is our birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY.


A drink from seven types of vegetables is made for health and to celebrate this occasion.  Noodles are eaten to promote longevity and raw fish for success.  Since i had 'yee sang' on New Year's Eve, i will have noodles today.


Ingredients:

4 pieces dried egg noodles(Yee mein if available) - for 4 persons
1/2 lb choy sum - washed and cut into i inch lengths
1.2 lb of pork/chicken slices
4 cups or more stock
2 tsp chopped garlic
2 tbsp tapioca starch mix with 2 tbsp water for thickening
4 eggs
Oil for deep frying the noodles if yee mein is not available

Marinate for the meat:

2 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp tapioca starch
1 tsp sesame oil
a dash of pepper

Seasonings

4 tbsp oyster sauce
salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp shao-xing wine
1 tbsp sesame oil


Method:

Heat wok with enough oil for deep frying.and when oil is 375f, drop one piece of dried noodle in and deep fry noodle until golden brown.  Remove and plunge fried noodle into a large pot of cold water.

Repeat with the other 3 pieces of dried noodles.  (If you have yee mein which are already fried, parboil and then put in cold water)

Marinate meat slices with the marinate and set aside.

Heat wok with 4 tbsp oil and brown marinated meat slices.  Add in chopped garlic and saute until fragrant.

Add in stock and seasonings, bring to a boil.

Add in deep fried noodles/yee mein and bring to the boil.  Reduce heat, cover wok and simmer noodles until noodles are soft. (Add more stock if you want more sauce).

Add in choy sum and increase heat.  Cook until choy sum is cooked just right.

Thicken sauce with tapioca starch solution.  Make sure the sauce is back to the boil and cook for 1 minute before adjusting the taste with salt and pepper.

Divide noodles into 4 portions and put each portion into a small claypot.  Bring back noodles in claypot to a quick boil and crack in an egg  together with a dash of shao-xing wine and sesame oil before serving.

Serve noodles immediately so that the egg can be cooked through from the heat of the noodles.


Serves

9 comments:

larkygal said...

Happy Ren Ri!! Today supposed to lo hei ah not eat yee mee.. anyway, it's really amazing at how simple ingredients can make a birthday person so happy! =)

Unknown said...

tiffany

in fact, i am making yee sang now for my yan yat celebration at a friend's house tonight. Since i have posted how to prepare yee sang thought that preparing a birthday noodle will be just as appropriate for today.

Yeer said...

Hi Lily, i have been following ur blog so quite some times and i love ur blog. U are so generous to share all ur recipes. I just switched from spaces to blogspot and i would like to put ur link in my blog, hope u dun mind.

Btw, just wanna wish u and ur family Gong Xi Fa Chai.

Tuty @ ScentofSpice said...

Happy Birthday to you, Lily :-)

May you stay healthy and happy.

Question: What's the purpose of frying the noodles then plunging them in cold water?

Corine said...

Seeing your claypot yee mein is tempting me to go get a claypot soon and cook yee mein out of it. Yum!I wanna thank you for posting the cocoa brownies recipe as they taste really good. I have an award for you. Come and grab it.

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Sunflower said...

Hope you had a lovely Yan Yak, Lily. I had soup and noodles, no Yu Sang :(

Unknown said...

tuty

yee mein is egg noodles deep-fried and plunging in cold water will soften the noodles and rid of some of the grease.

Dina said...

that looks really good!

Victor | UPrinting said...

This dish looks awesome, I am sure it taste very good also. I usually go to Chinatown if I want to get authentic Chinese noodles and dimsums (I SO love dimsums).

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