Spicy Fried Glass Noodles is an easy meal which can be speedily dished up when you are tired of spending lots of time cooking in your kitchen. It is also a versatile dish; you may add seafood or meat in it. Here, I have used prawns to cook it. It is such a yummy dish that my son had asked me to cook it a few times since I first cooked it.
Ingredients:
- 150 g glass noodles (My rough guide is 75 g per person.)
- 4-6 large prawns
- 2 tbsp dried prawns
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 inches ginger
- 1 stalk green onions
- 1 tbsp chili paste or sambal (Sambal will make the noodles more tasty as it has shrimp paste, garlic and onions incorporated into the chili paste.)
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp salt or to taste
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 3 tbsp cooking oil (Add more if you want your glass noodles to be glossy.)
- 1/2 cup water
Method:
- Soak glass noodles in warm water for about 8-10 minutes. Glass noodles bought from one shop may turn soft faster than those bought from another. Feel them at the 8th minute to ensure that they are not too soft. Remove and set them aside.
- Wash, cut off the rostrum, antenna, legs and tails and de-vein the prawns.
- Wash and pound/chop the dried prawns.
- Mince the garlic.
- Mince the ginger.
- Wash and cut the green onions to 1/2 inch length.
- Heat up the cooking oil in a wok.
- Saute garlic, ginger, chili paste or sambal and dried prawns till fragrant.
- Add the prawns and fry till they are half-cooked.
- Add water and let it boil.
- Add the seasonings - light and dark soy sauces, salt and pepper.
- Add the glass noodles and fry them till they are cooked. Sprinkle them with green onions. Give them a quick stir and ladle them up onto a serving plate.