Minced pork with gravy topped on thick noodle - ก๋วยเตี๋ยวหมูสับHi there.. yesterday I was so craving for soft foods with gentle taste (anything at all that has soft texture and not too spicy!..) So I came up with this idea- "Minced pork with gravy topped on thick noodle!!" This is one of the all age and all time Thai most favorite food. However this is a Thai dish that I hardly find from local Thai Restaurant and I really don't know why they have overlooked this "so delicious dish!" I proved my words by visiting 4 Thai restaurant in Brisbane last week, I still couldn't find this Thai dish whatsoever on their menu..!
How come? Well, I can't force them to cook the dish that is not on a menu for me. So I have to make it myself again right ? Ok no problem.. It's actually good though cuz I'll have an opportunity to share this yummy recipe with you guys again :D
Ingredients
1. Minced pork 600g.
2. A bag (1Kg.) of thick noodles (you'll find it in the fridge at supermarket or you can also buy it fresh from Asian supermarket.) If you got the frozen one, make sure that you make it ready to be cooked by thawing and softening the noodle first. For me I used the fresh one because I find that it turns out a bit softer than the frozen one.
3. 2 each of onion, carrot, tomato. Cut them up as shown on the picture.
4. Corn flour 3 tb spoons mixed with a cup of water (room temperature water)
5. Water 2 cups
6. Fish sauce 5 tb spoons
7. Soy Sauce 2 tb spoons
8. A pinch of Coriander
9. Tomato sauce 1 tbspoon
10. White pepper
11. An egg yolk (optional)
12. Chicken stock 2 tb spoons (you can get either liquid type or powder type, up to you)
13. 1 tb spoon of extralight olive oil (optional)
14. Green lettuce (any kind of lettuce will do)
15. Xylitol (Natural sweetener that I use instead of sugar as it has exactly the same taste and texture as sugar but contains much lower calories than sugar and it's diabetes friendly)
1.
The main ingredients.
2.
First of all, you have to slightly fry the noodle with 1 tb spoon of extra light olive oil (this is the only part that we use oil. You can skip this part by warming up the noodle in microwave oven instead. Once the noodle is soft and warm, put the lid to cover the noodle then we set it aside once we start cooking the minced pork gravy topping.
3.
We start cooking the topping by adding 2 cups of water in to the wok. Sprinkle some coriander in to the water followed by putting the chicken stock then adding minced pork in to the stocked water. When the pork is half cooked, we can put all the seasoning eg fish sauce, soy sauce and sugar (or xylitol)Stil well and then we wait it the pork is cooked.
4.
For Thai food, they never miss a chance to mix veggies in their meal. So this's the step when they mix veggies into the main meal smartly. In the picture, you will see that I put all the cut veggies in to the wok after the pork is cooked right away. Stir well on med heat.
5.
For slightly sweet and sour taste, I put ketchup. It's like my shortcut for those taste and the slightly reddish color. After ketchup, I add floured water into the mixture to create a gravy like sauce.
6.
That's it. The topping's done. How does it look to you? The taste should be like very mellow with light sweet and just a little bit of sour taste. You should also smell soy sauce and it should have some salty taste in the sauce as well. Basically it should have all of tastes in the sauce equally!!
7.
This's how you eat. Put some noodle on top of the lettuce like the picture.
8.
Then put the sauce on top..
You can eat it with or without egg. For me, I just have to have an egg york on top because when all of these ingredients mixed together with egg. Oh..it will just create a perfect-unforgettable taste to me. But for someone who don't eat raw egg york, you can put egg york in microwave for 45sec. until it's half cooked. With this way you can also experience this creamy best taste as well.
Ohhhhh.. laa laaaa please post a comment for me how yours one turn out? Oh also don't forget to sprinkle some coriander and white pepper on top for even more perfect taste!!
