Kekiklim Tavuk menüsü / Creamy Penne Pasta with Thyme Chicken, restaurant copycat recipe

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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What is I am going to share today is one franchise chicken restaurants' popular menu.  This restaurant is famous here in Turkey and has many branches in many cities across Turkey called "Tavuk Dunyası" or in English, you can say Chicken world. 

This restaurant is relatively new, according to some sources, this franchise restaurant was established in 2011, and up to 2020, they already have more than 200 branches across Turkey.

Their menus generally consist of pasta as a carbohydrate--some menus serve fries instead of pasta, chicken-in many variants, and a simple salad. And of course, bread is also served on those menus. 

kekiklim menüsü

One of people's choice and popular menu from this restaurant is "Kekiklim", or Chicken thyme. Serve with creamy penne pasta and salad.

We order this menu a few times before I decide to copy the taste and make it at home. It is actually amazingly simple dish to make. 

There are three components we should prepare, marinate the chicken, cook the pasta and simplest thing is to prepare the salad.

This is an absolutely perfect dish and your family would love it.

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HOMEMADE RED NOODLES MAKES FROM BEETROOT / MEMBUAT MIE TELUR WARNA MERAH (DARI BUAH BIT)

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋


First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you can come back, again and again, to check up any beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweets that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛

Noodles are a type of food made from unleavened dough which is rolled flat and cut, stretched or extruded, into long strips or strings. Noodles can be refrigerated for short-term storage or dried and stored for future use. Noodles are usually cooked in boiling water, sometimes with cooking oil or salt added

Generally, noodles made from wheat flour and water. Salt is sometimes added, and cornstarch is sprinkled on fresh noodles to keep them from sticking together. Egg noodles or dan mian, occasionally flavored with shrimp and yellowish in color, are popular in southern China.

Other types of noodles made with rice flour (cellophane noodles/ vermicelli) or mung bean flour (glass noodles). Soba noodles made from buckwheat flour, wheat flour, and water.

During this time, we can find many variants of these noodles. For example, vermicelli (rice noodles) can be found in many colors and flavors. Or egg noodles, we can enrich it with so many flavors and adding colors.

Check my previous Spinach egg noodle for smuggling vegetables in your noodles and you will love the vibrant green color of it.

But if you want plain noodles, you can check my previous Chewy Homemade noodles here.

And today I will share egg noodles using beetroot for coloring the noodles. You can not taste the beetroot in it, it just gives a vibrant beautiful red color for your noodles. I bet your kids would love it!

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CREAMY SPAGHETTI CHICKEN ALFREDO

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Selam...
Merhaba from Türkiye everyone 👋

Pasta in Turkey, we call it "makarna" is like second staple beside bread. Together with bulgur wheat , couscous and rice, pasta also favorite food especially in big cities. 
The most favorite pasta type is spaghetti. 

Most pasta consumption in Turkey is in Marmara Region, Aegean second, took third place is Central Anatolia. This was followed by the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Southeast and Eastern Anatolia Regions. It was seen that pasta consumption was lower in the regions where local dishes and traditional tastes were in the foreground.

And the most popular sauce to cook with spaghetti is simple tomato sauce.

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Homemade Chewy and springy Noodles (from egg white only)

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you can come back, again and again, to check up on any beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweets that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛 

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Another homemade noodle! ... yaayy....
After my last spinach homemade noodle, I and my little girl can not stop to make another experience with homemade noodles.
İf you are my regular reader you might remember my very old post of making this egg noodle here and here. 
At that time I didn't use a pasta machine to make these egg noodles. 

But today's egg noodle is slightly different in ingredients. Instead of using a whole egg, today I use only egg white. If you can find duck egg that's even better, unfortunately, I hardly can find duck eggs in my local market. I heard duck egg can add a springy and chewy texture to noodles.

But it's okay also if you just use chicken egg, follow my step here and you will get the right texture you want. The key here is not to make your dough too wet. Just enough wet ingredients to pull all flour together- incorporate any clumps of dry flour, that's all. You don't have to knead the dough too much cause it will be very hard to knead.

The kneading process is actually on the rolling process. So we must roll it again and again until the strong gluten develops and gives the chewy texture.

What is noodle? noodle made from an unleavened dough of a strong wheat flour mixed with water or eggs and formed into sheets or various shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. In Asia there are many kind of noodle-based on ingredients, there is an egg noodles, rice noodle, or glass noodle made from starch (such as mung bean starch, yam, potato starch, or cassava starch), and water.

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HOMEMADE SPINACH NOODLE / CARA MEMBUAT MIE BAYAM SENDIRI DI RUMAH

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Selam everybody........ Merhaba from Türkiye 👋

Hope this post meets you in happy and healthy condition. In this crisp of breezy fall most of us especially kids easily get sick. Just keep warm and take a lot of vitamins.

Just what happen to my kid recently. So she must stayed at home for few days, didn't go to school nor anywhere... poor my little girl 😢

My kid easily get bore.. so during her stay in house I was thinking to make her a little "busy" and "occupied" without disturbing her rest time too much. 

I made her homemade play dough to play and stay away a bit from tablet/ phone.

We also baked her favorite Sausage bread roll together 😊

And I made her special and new thing for her..... Spinach noodle !

My kid enjoy both Turkish food or Indonesian food. So she already familiar with noodle. She even love it, especially fried noodle.
So when I made her this green color noodle, her expression was so priceless 😍.
She was so amazed by the color of her noodle. " This is my first time seeing green noodle Mummy!"- she said to me 😊
"Of course there are always first time for you dear"- I smile 😊

--And my princess, you will find many things which first time for you in your life. Just come to mummy and ask anything that left you clueless........... 💚--

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KUNG PAO CHICKEN RICE BOWL

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Selam everybody ...... Merhaba from Türkiye 👋

İf you are my page's regular reader... you should probably know that I cook Indonesian and Asian cook more than Turkish food. 
Yep... daily I serve my mixed family with variant cuisine mostly Turkish food and Indonesian / Asian. Even not every day I eat Indonesian food but at least Asian spice always on my menu.
My kid enjoys both Indonesian/ Asian cuisine as much as Turkish food.

My husband still prefers Turkish food as main dish. Also, he starts to enjoy some Indonesian snacks or "kueh", Indonesian cookies that he never knew before, or some beverages.
He likes  tofu and tempeh as well😊 

And today I will share one of my repeatable menu. İt's Kung pao Chicken... my fave! Maybe some of you think that cooking Asian food is complicated. And seeing long list of ingredients might discouraged you.
But actually, once you get all your ingredients on the table, cooking Asian food is very fast, quick and flavorful- you gonna love it and enjoy the food instantly.

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Indonesian Fried Vermicelli / Bihun goreng kecap

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you can come back, again and again, to check up any beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweets that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛

Beside rice, noodle is staple meal in Indonesia.
In fact we have so many type of noodle commonly consumed e.g; 
1. egg noodle (mie telor)--see my homemade egg noodle here , here and here.
2. Cellophane noodles (so'un) -- made of potato starch mix with green bean flour. The texture is very soft, suitable for soup, fried so'un noodle or filling for Indonesian fried dumpling. Sold in dry form, soak in hot water until soft and then ready to be processed into various kinds of cuisine.

3. Kwetiau / Rice stick noodles. Made by steam rice flour and water.

4. Bihun / Rice Vermicelli. Rice vermicelli is made of rice flour, the color is pure white and the texture is very soft. This noodle is very easy to cook so no need to be boiled, just soaked in hot water. Usually sold in dry form in plastic packaging.

Beside those noodle İ mentioned above we also familiar with neighbouring countries noodle, such as soba, somen noodles, or ramen from Japan.

Or some noodle type from China like Misua and Hokkien noodle.

Beyond the wide varieties of the noodle, the way we cook it also has no boundary because in Indonesian has many cultures and bring their culture into Indonesian culinary in their own ways.
İt'll never bored when you are digging Indonesian culinary. İt's rich, exotic, spicy, savory, umami, cultured.....

This is one simple and common recipe on how to cook vermicelli in Indonesia, fried vermicelli with sweet soy sauce or Bihun goreng kecap. İt's fast and simple way to enjoy vermicelli noodles in any time, morning to night

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Mantis Shrimp Curry Noodle made from scratch / Mie Kari (kare) udang ronggeng

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Selam everybody.....Merhaba from Turkey.

This is my kind of comfort food. Nothing more indulges and fulfills my longing for my mom's cook than this hearty, warming and rich flavor of this curry noodle. This bowl always my number one choice whenever İ want to be "selfish" in my dinner table 😏
Selfish.... yes cause my husband doesn't like this kind of curry. He prefer simple food with "simple" flavor 😔

Whenever İ want to cook curry..İ always remember my mom. She is the best cooks around the house. İ learnt many foods from her. We (me and my siblings) all grew up with my mom's heavenly yummy food. İ Love and always remember her curries especially crab and seafood curry.
And my curry noodle also inspired by my mom's curry style. Traditionally we eat curry with white steamed rice. But today İ like to combine my mom's style curry with another İndonesian staple; Mie or Noodle

Mantis Shrimp / Udang Ronggeng

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Lontong Mie Surabaya / Surabaya style bean sprout noodle stew. #indonesianfoodrecipe

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Selam everybody.....Merhaba from Turkey.

My today today post is another Surabaya-nese ( if I may say so for things from Surabaya 😊 )

Surabaya is the capital city of East Java province and it's my homeland. The second largest city in population after Jakarta.

And as other regions/cities in İndonesia Surabaya is also famous for the richness of its own typical cuisine. Talking about Surabaya food is like holding a very long shopping list that you want and need them all! Surabaya foods are rich and full of flavor distinguish from other cuisines from other İndonesian cities/regions.
And one of the typical ingredients from Surabaya (and neighboring towns) is "petis". Petis is a product ingredient made of shrimp in paste form. Some call it shrimp paste butcall İ  it just "petis" so not being confuse with "terasi" or "belacan" (another shrimp product). Below here you can see the difference between "petis" and "terasi/belacan".
But both shrimp products are staple ingredients in most İndonesian cuisines. İ brought them from İndonesia last year during my family visit.

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Pastel Renyah Isi Bihun / Indonesian fried dumpling with vermicelli filling

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Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkey.

Indonesia has many....probably hundreds of variant of snacks. Start from traditional snacks e.g many kind of kueh basah (literally means wet snacks), fried snacks (in bahasa call gorengan) and other type of jajanan (snacks) mostly known as street food/ snack; for example batagor, siomay, kerak telur and more. 
Kueh basah are more often steamed than baked and normally have sweet taste, but some are savory as well.


Each type has very long list of snacks variant. Check some of them on my "snack" category list. And what I am going to share today is Pastel isi bihun, means fried dumpling filled with vermicelli noodle. You can fill it also with vegetable like my previous post here or mini version with beef/chicken floss here.

Just like many other Indonesian who enjoy tea/ coffee time with many kind snacks with it, I made this snack for my light breakfast or just evening coffee.

There are two parts should prepared to make this snack; filling and skin shell. I usually make vermicelli noodle first before prepare the skin dough. Or sometimes if I have some left over of fried vermicelli I previously made, I prefer use it for the filling.

So..are you interesting make one of Indonesian snack like this pastel bihun.... let's knead some dough now... 😊

Check category Indonesian Snack (jajan pasar/ kue) for more Indonesian Kueh or snack.

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Chicken/ beef teriyaki noodle bowl with homemade teriyaki sauce

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Selam everybody.... Merhaba from Turkey.

This is my kind of comfort food. I mean with warm noodle top with teriyaki chicken and vegetables, nothing can make me feel comfier than that. Chicken or beef teriyaki is one of my favorites, I made it almost at least once a week. 

Previously I made my homemade teriyaki sauce because my fave teriyaki sauce that brought from my homeland had finished. There is some other import product sold here as well. But if you know how amazingly simple to make this teriyaki sauce, would you still purchase store-bought that cost you double?

And today I'm going to share one of my fave meal; Chicken teriyaki noodle bowl. It's not so complicated to make as you imagine. Once you ready with any ingredients, cooking process it's just take few minutes. But if you are looking for rice version, just visit my Chicken rice bowl here.

You can substitute chicken breast with beef, just make sure you slice it thinly and flatten slightly the meat with tenderizer before marinate them.

Chicken/ beef teriyaki noodle bowl recipe
Serve 4.

Ingredients I:

• 300 gr chicken breast/ beef, thinly sliced
• 2 tbsp homemade teriyaki sauce
• salt and pepper
• 1 tbsp butter/ olive oil

Ingredients II:

• 200 gr egg noodle
• 2 tbsp butter/ olive oil
• 3 garlic, finely chopped
• 1 big onion, crescent sliced
• 1 red bell pepper, julienne cut
• 1 green bell pepper, julienne cut
• 4 tbsp homemade teriyaki sauce
• 1 tbsp worcestershire/ english sauce
• ½~1 tbsp oyster sauce
• ½ tsp salt or to taste
• 1 tsp fresh ground pepper and more for serving
• sesame seed for serving
• chopped scallion for serving

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Mie siram capcay / Indonsian style noodle topped with vegetables

Selam everybody...Merhaba from Turkey..

If you far away from homeland..and you are in a place which has totally different culture (read; in cuisine) from yours.. believe me, your longing is worst than broken heart 😄
 hahahha.. I just exaggerate it.
But honestly I'am talking real story here. Especially anything you need to make your own homeland food isn't available locally or it's very difficult to find. I remember earlier years I'd staying here, it was around 2008 or 2009, even egg noodle was very difficult to find. I must went to big chain supermarket (where far away from my house), then sometimes I got painfully heat broken cause couldn't find it there. 

When I got lucky, my husband surprisingly brought it for me from another big supermarket near his office. To buy soy sauce, we must buy it online which sometimes also no stock.... Yes...that was my earlier year living in Turkey. Maybe local people are't familiar to Asian culinary.

That's why I start to make some homemade thing start from egg noodle, tofu, tempeh, even I sprout my own bean sprout..  So true that said: lack condition/ limitation drives you to be creative person 😄

And years gone by.. and I was so happy cause some ingredients I need to make my own style food become easier to find here.. don't know why..maybe Asian foreigners getting more settled here..😄  dunno!

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Terbiyeli Tavuk çorbası ( Creamy seasoned Chicken soup)

Selam Everybody....Merhaba from Turkey...

Soup or çorba (read chor_ba) in Turkey is always served as first/ opening dish in dinner or lunch time before we go to main dish. If you check my other Turkish soup you will find that mostly Turkish soup are creamy one as people's preferred. Use yogurt and or flour as sauce and thicken the soup.

Unlike Indonesian or other Asian soup, Turkish soups are smooth and no big chunk of meat or vegetable used. If using meat, cut it into very small chunks. For vegetable soup mostly we blend it to smooth and creamy.

And nothing can comfort us during cold days than a family and good creamy soup on our dinner table. And this tebiyeli tavuk çorbası it might become your choice too for bring the warmth into your house ^,^

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Bihun Goreng udang / simply my shrimp fried rice vermicelli noodle (bee hoon)

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you can come back, again and again, to check up on any beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweets that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛 

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I just made simple and quick menu for my self and my kid. It's fried vermicelli noodle a la me. This food is kinda comfort food for me especially if I don't really want to eat rice nor bread. My fave actually vermicelli noodle with a little gravy in it- thick and spicy gravy. Very great food especially in cold days like now.

But my kid doesn't like gravy one so I decide to make fried version. It's very simple to make and definitely great meal for you who crave asian flavor. You can skip the shrimp at all or just use chicken meat, it's up to any ingredients you have on fridge.

So here the recipe a la me (^,^)

Make about 5 share

Ingredients:

• 1/2 packet rice vermicelli (about 200 gr)
• 1 Tbsp soy sauce or kecap manis/ sweet soy sauce
• 1 Tbsp sesame oil
• 1 bowl shredded cabbage (about 300 gr)
• 1 small bowl shrimp (about 200 gr), remove the head but do not discard, it will mashed with spices
• 2 stalks celery, finely chopped
• 1 stalk leek, roughly chopped
• 2 tsp salt or to taste
• 1 tsp sugar (optional)
• about 3 Tbsp cooking oil

ground spice:

• 5 shallot
• 4 garlic
• 1 tsp peppercorn
• shrimp's head

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Spaghetti Shrimp Scampi

Hello Everybody..Hello December... (^,^)

Nothing can break cold situation between two strangers but talking about weather, right? I mean when you meet somebody totally new in same room, you don't know each other and you both have nothing to do but waiting something which is boring us. What do you think? What would you do or say if you were in that situation above?

Well...talking about weather, it was soft and cold rain welcoming December here in Bursa, Turkey...I mean the rain continuously since a day before. Not heavy rain though..just soft. I think the snow will come very soon. I didn't have any intention to go out or what so ever. Unfriendly weather for me (as tropical person) and especially for my kid. What to do.... nothing than play with my daughter inside as usual and made us one easy yet simple food for our self ^,^ . 

Beside I made hot chocolate drink mix (which I will post here very soon) I made this Spaghetti with shrimp scampi. Cloudy outside makes me a little hesitate to make more complicated meal than this ^,^

Serve 3

Ingredients:

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Homemade Egg Noodle and simple fried noodle / membuat mie telur sendiri

Noodle.. in Bahasa Indonesia I call it Mie [read: mee] . Is a long, thin rolled dough and cooked in boiling water. Arabic, Chinese and Italian claimed that they are noodles' inventor, although the oldest written about mie come from the Eastern Han Dynasty, between AD 25 and AD 220. In October 2005, the oldest noodles estimated 4,000 years old was found in Qinghai, China. (source:Wikipedia)

Anyway, regardless of the first inventors of noodles ... let's us make our own egg noodles at home ... this might be the first favorite in your home. And for more how to use (cook) this homemade noodle, I also include one simple fried noodle recipe below. 

Before making favorite noodle recipe you have.. let's make our egg noodle. I have my pasta rolling machine to help me doing rolling and cut the noodles. But don't worry if you don't have one, you can just simply roll the dough with rolling pin and cut the dough with sharp knife. You can see my other homemade egg noodle post without pasta rolling machine here.

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Celebrating Eidul Fitr (Ramazan Bayram) and also My kid's 2nd B'day

Happy Eid al Fitr 1435 H for you who celebrate it. 

This Eid al Fitr 2014 is the happiest and memorable moment for me. After more than 5 times celebrated Eid in Turkey, this is the first time I feel like celebrate Eid al Fitr in my own country. Many my Indonesian fellow came to visit with their family. Some students who study here also came to visit.. to tied more closely relationship.

Beside that memorable Eid al Fitr, this year coincide with  my lovely baby's birthday, Sahnaz Kale this July turns 2! .. Time feel too fast passing by.. I still feel I just born her few months ago..now she turns 2 !

Two happy reasons (Eid al Fitr and my princess' B'day) is enough for me to celebrate it, just simple celebration. We invited some Indonesian to spend happy moment with simple Indonesian and Turkish Foods.

Like normally b'day party I also made one simple b'day cake for my daughter. This chocolate cake  made from 1 recipe of steamed chocolate sponge cake and 1 recipe chocolate brownie recipe steamed with simple fondant decoration. And chocolate frosting recipe here.

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Mie Ayam Jamur (Chicken Mushrooms noodle)

One popular food in Indonesia. Everyone like it, from eastern to western Indonesia with variety of herbs and additional options like dumplings and meatballs. Everyone has their own favorite. Usually we rarely make this at home because we can get it easily from "bakmi seller" with their mobile stall in our alley or we just go to their food stalls near the corner everywhere in Indonesia.

Since I live in Turkey where I can not find them everywhere, so the only way I can do is making it by my self, a little bit effort but satisfy my craving of homeland cuisine.

Served 6 ~ 8
ingredients:
  egg noodles
 pok coy or mustard leaves or kale 
 Green onion, roughly chopped
 sweet soy sauce
 "sambal" or Chili sauce
 sesame oil or olive oil
 dumplings and beef / chicken meatballs (optional)

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Spaghetti Meatball Sauce

Inspired by Italian cuisine. Our menu this time is a combination of two favorite thing of my hubby and mine : spaghetti and köfte (Turkish Meatball) .. So voallaa..  here we are.. spaghetti with Meatball sauce for our dinner menu ...

Ingredients and how to make Spaghetti Meatball: 
Make about 4 servings.

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I Fu Mie (read: Ee fu mee) / crispy noodle served with stir fry mix vegetable-Indonesian food

Back when I was a single and lives in Jakarta, this menu almost became a regular dish in every dinner. Each night a lot of non-permanent stall-We call it "Warung Makan" which provides many kinds of Chinese food or seafood on the roadside. After office hours on my way home, I just park my car at the curb and got many favorite menus-without to bother cooking by myself.

But Here .... I've never met a Chinese Restaurant, not yet maybe. So to satisfy my longing for this Chinese food, there is no other way than "a little effort" to make it by myself in my small kitchen. @(^_^)@

Ingredients:
- about 500 gr fresh egg noodles
- about 200 gr boneless chicken. Cut into bite-size.
- about 200 gr shrimp.
- about 100 gr mushrooms. Chop roughly.
- about 1/2 cup green peas.
- about 200 grams of cauliflower, cut roughly.
- 1 large carrot. Cut round.
- 4 ~ 5 cloves of garlic. crushed and finely chopped.
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped.
- Salt and pepper to taste
- about 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- Cornstarch 1/ 2 tbsp. Dilute with a little water.
- Enough Cooking oil.


How to cook:

1) Heat oil in a deep skillet. Divide noodles into 3 portions. and fry each portion in hot oil until dry and crispy. Drain from remaining oil and set aside.

2) Heat enough oil in a saucepan. Saute garlic and onions until fragrant and transparent, put in chicken and shrimp, stir-fry until chicken is cooked. Add carrots, cauliflower, mushrooms, and peas pour about 2 cups hot water/ chicken broth (enough to make gravy). Cover the pan and let all vegetables cooked.

3) Seasoning with salt, pepper, and oyster sauce. Test the taste. Pour the cornstarch solution and stir until thickened. Remove from heat.

Fry noddle in deep oil until crispy.

How to serve:

Place the noodles in the serving dish and flush with a hot vegetable mix. Serve immediately with pickled as a companion.

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