Minced meat noodles

Mum send me a packet of Australia lobster noodles last month. I've been telling my hubby that I will cook the noodles one day and he has been wondering when will I do so. So, I cooked it last week.

The next thing was to decide what style..and I picked this minced meat noodles recipe up from My Kitchen Snippets.

Ingredients:
1/2 pounds of minced meat (beef, chicken or pork) - I used pork
4 shallots - thinly sliced
3 cloves of garlic - chopped
5 dry shitake mushroom - soak in hot water and slice thinly

Seasonings:
2 tsp of dark soy sauce
2 tbsp of oyster sauce
2 tbsp of soy sauce
1 tsp of sugar
1 tsp of pepper
1/4 tsp of sesame oil
Salt to taste
1/2 cup of water

Garnishes:
Some noodles (blanch in hot water)
2 eggs - make into omelet - slice thinly
1 carrots - julienned and blanch in hot water for a minute
1/2 cucumber - julienned
Some iceberg lettuce - julienned
2 spring onions - cut small - I omitted this

Method:
1) Heat up some olive oil, add in shallots and garlic. Stir fry until fragrant and lightly brown.

2) Add in minced meat, break up all the lumps and stir fry until the meat changes colour. Add in the mushroom, all the seasonings and water.

3) Continue to stir fry until meat is cook. If the meat is too dry add in a bit more water. The meat need to have some gravy in it. Dish out and set aside.

4) Put some noodles in a bowl, put some meat on top of the noodles and the rest of the garnishes. Serve warm.


It tasted quite good. It was like eating 'Char cheung min' because you need to mix all the garnishes before eating. The only thing was I took quite some time to julienned the garnishes as I don't have a grater.