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Pumpkin Pan Mee (Pumpkin Flat Noodle)


Prep Time

1 hr

Cook Time

30 min

Total Time

1 hr 30 min

Category

Lunch

Ingredients (please include quantities/weights)

(A) Pan mee dough 

  • 400g all-purpose flour
  • 100g steamed pumpkin
  • 1 egg
  • 100 ml water

(B) Soup

  • 1 Tbsp cooking oil
  • 100g anchovies
  • 1 liter water
  • 1 small ginger
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1 bunch spinach

(C) Toppings

  • 1/2 cups diced onions
  • 8pcs soaked overnight chinese mushroom
  • 200g minced chicken
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 Tbsp sesame oil
  • 1 tsp tapioca flour
  • Osyter sauce, soy sauce & sugar

Instructions/Steps

(A) Pan mee dough:

  1. Prepare the dough by combine all the ingredients A in a big mixture bowl.
  2. Knead it until the dough no longer sticky
  3. Cover with damp cloth & rest for an hour.

(B) Soup

  1. Wash the anchovies thoroughly.
  2. Frying the anchovies with cooking oil until golden brown in color & crispy.
  3. Take some portion fried anchovies & set aside.
  4. The left in pot, add-in water & 1 small ginger to boil soup.
  5. Cook until anchovies turn white colour then add 1 pinch of salt.

(C) Toppings

  1. Mix chicken meat & mushroom with pinch of salt, sesame oil & 1tsp tapioca flour.
  2. Fry the red onion, set aside the red onion.
  3. Use some of the onion oil to cook minced chicken & mushroom.
  4. Add in oyster sauce, sugar & soy sauce.
  5. Set aside.

Pan mee 

  1. The dough ready to peel into small piece (thin layer) into soup
  2. Wash the spinach & add into soup.
  3. Serve into a bowl, add in the cooked minced chicken & mushroom, fried onion and anchovies.

Serve hot & with chilies !
Enjoy !!

Preparation Tips / Special Notes

* May add little water or flour to get desired consistency when knead the dough.
* The dough may replaced with spinach juice instead of pumpkin to make it in green color.

By Tiffany Leong