Javanese Jawa Mee

I was chatting with my friends yesterday about cooking Jawa Mee and they said that I never posted anything about Jawa Mee. I remembered snapping some photographs of it the 1st time I cook at my new home. I must have forgotten to post it again. Yesterday was my 4th time, if I've not mistaken..

Here is my Jawa Mee, the revised version suitable for kids - not so spicy and with healthy ingredients.

Serving: 4

Preparation + Cooking Time: 45 min

Ingredients:

Yellow noodles

Rice vermicelli/rice noodle

Soup / Gravy

3 medium sweet potato

2 medium potato

3 small tomatoes (in replacement of Asam Jawa)

100ml tomato ketchup sauce (add more or less to suit own taste)

3 tbsp chili sauce (add more if spicier taste is preferred)

4 shallots

1 tbsp light soy sauce

Salt to taste

Pepper to taste

** Optional : 40g chili paste with onion (bought from wet market or buy RM1.00. Half for the gravy and half for garnishing sauce)

Garnishing
3 medium eggs, hard boil
1 stalk chinese lettuce, shredded

2 cups bean sprouts, briefly blanched

1 tofu (soy bean cake), thinly sliced
Fried beancurd slice (in replacement of prawn cracker)

2tbsp chili paste to taste

fried shallots to taste

Garnishing: Prawn Cracker (MIL's secret recipe)

300g medium sized shrimp

300g flour

100g frying powder Hup Loong Batter Premix

salt to taste

Method

1. Bring 3 cups of water to boil.

2. Skin sweet potato and potato.

3. Cook sweet potato, potato and tomato until tender.

3. In another pot, cook hard boil egg.

4. Wash, drain lettuce, bean sprout and tofu.

5. Shred lettuce and cut tofu into cubes.

6. Marinate tofu with sugar and light soy sauce, put aside. (for better taste. You many skip this one).

7. Drain out sweet potato, potato and tomato. Blend them together until very smooth.

8. Remove from blender and pour it back to the pot that boils the potatoes. Mix it and boil with low flame.

9. Saute shallots until golden brown. Add chili paste and saute till fragrant.

10. Pour in shallots and chili paste into the potatoes pot. Mix it well.

11. Add in tomato sauce, chili sauce, little salt and light sauce.

12. Bring it to boil or until soup is thicken.

And it's done ! Ready to serve

Oops ! I forgot to put on shredded lettuce ! :-D

* In my previous cooking, I added lime for a more intense sour taste. However, I find that Ernest always have throat irritation at night each time after having the Jawa mee. He has no throat irritation after I eliminated lime into the cooking. Thus, I guess, he is allergy to lime.

Wanna give a try ?