Home Made Lor Mee

Ingredients A

500g thick yellow/ hokkien noodles ( blanch and drain)

2 cups of bean sprouts ( blanch and drain)

First, prepare the stock.

Ingredients B

100 gm anchovies

2 pieces of large pork bones

2  chicken bones

 

 

300g of pork belly ( or pork muscles)

 

1 large onion

Methods :

1. Boil pork bones and chicken bones for 5 mins. Discard the water and set the pork bones and chicken bones aside.

2. Now boil a port of water. Place all ingredients into the pot when water is boiling. 

3. Continue boiling for 1 1/2 hours on low heat.

Step 2: Prepare  the stew

Ingredient C ( can be purchase from any wet market):

1 large star anise

4 cloves

1 cinnamon stick  

 

Ingredient D:

4 hard boiled eggs

 

200g of pork muscle or lean pork

1 bulb of garlic (separated but leave skin on)

1/2 tsp five spice powder

Seasonings:

4 tbs soy sauce

2 tbs dark soy sauce

2 tbs sesame oil

1.5 tbs rock sugar

0.5 tsp salt

Methods:

 

1. Heat a little oil in pot and stir fry ingredient C for 2 minutes. 

2. Add rock sugar and let it melt and caramelized.

3. Add pork and five spice powder, let pork brown a little then add the rest listed under Ingredient D.

4. Add the rest of the seasoning then add just enough water to cover.

5. Turn the heat down to a simmer when boiled

6. Let it cook for 1.5 hours.

7. Remove pork and eggs and keep the gravy.

8. Cut pork into thin slices and eggs into half.

 

Ingredients for garlic paste:

1 bulb of garlic

1 tbs white vinegar

2 tbs boiling water

1 tbs sugar

Instructions for garlic paste:

1. Remove garlic skin, then blend in a blender

 

2. Combine mushy garlic paste with white vinegar, boiling water and sugar. You can store and refrigerate the leftovers in a glass bottle for future use.

Ingredients for the Lor Mee gravy:

1. Combine stock and stew gravy.

2. Add soy sauce and dark soy sauce. Then let it come to a boil.

3. Pour the egg mixture into the soup, keep stirring the soup while you pour, we want the eggs to form tiny strands.

4. Add 1/4 cup water to potatoes  flour. Add just enough until achieved desired consistency. 

 

Time to assemble"

 

1. Place noodles and bean sprouts into a bowl.

 

2. Arrange all other ingredients like fish cakes, Ngo hiang, fish fillets, wantons,  egg, pork slices on top of the noodles

 

3. Pour the gravy over the ingredients.

 

4. Serve with sliced chillies, black vinegar and garlic paste!!

Some references taken from:http://ellyneverforgets.blogspot.sg/2012/10/lor-mee.html