Mee Rebus

Mee rebus is one of the many noodles dishes popular in Malaysia. It is yellow noodles served with a thick spicy potato-based gravy and garnished with a hard-boiled egg, spring onions, bean sprouts, fried shallots, tau kwa (dried/ fried beancurd) and lime juice.

Ingredients

• 600g yellow noodles
• 300g sweet potatoes, boiled and mashed
• 250g lean beef, sliced thinly
• 3 cm cinnamon stick
• 4 cloves
• 3 star anise
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 8 cups (2l) beef stock
• 1/3 cup (75 ml) tamarind juice
• 1 teaspoon ground fennel
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 3 star anise
• Salt and sugar to taste
• Oil for cooking
• ♥♦♥♦Spice Blend: 8 shallots
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 cm ginger
• 1 cm galangal
• 8 dried chili peppers, soak in hot water discard seeds
• ♥♦♥♦For the garnish: 1 cucumber, peeled and cut into matchstick size
• 250g bean sprouts, tails remove tails and blanch in hot water
• 150g fried shallots
• 3 stalks spring onions, chopped
• 3 red chilies, sliced
• 3 hard boiled eggs, quartered
• 8 small limau kasturi, halved

Directions:

Grind all the spice ingredients until fine. Heat a little oil in a pot and fry the spice blend until fragrant.

Mix in the fennel, turmeric, black pepper, cinnamon stick, star anise, cloves and fry until the oil separates.

Add the sliced beef and stir fry for 2 minutes.

Pour in the beef stock, tamarind juice and mashed potatoes.

Stir well and cook over low heat and bring to a boil. Season with salt and sugar to taste.

Blanch the noodles in boiling water and drain.

To serve, put noodles in bowl and ladle the soup over it. Garnish with each of the ingredients.

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