Stir fried meehoon

Stir fried meehoon is a delicious one meal dish that is easy and fast to cook. It can be served for breakfast or lunch and even for family gatherings or parties at home or outside. You can use any combination of vegetables and meat or sea food or even make it vegetarian style and it will still be delicious. Today the girls are at home and they want lunch so the quickest way to feed them is to fry meehoon. 

Meehoon and kueh teow are rice noodles made from white rice flour, water and other ingredients but made in different shapes. Meehoon also called rice vermicelli is the thin form of rice noodles. It can be fried, cook in soups or even in salads. It is a great gluten-free alternative for people who are sensitive to gluten or have celiac disease. It has phosphorus which helps maintain strong bones, filter waste products in the kidneys and also maintain energy levels.

Ingredients

This is what I found in the fridge and freezer

1 piece of chicken breast

Some pork tendon

Chinese cabbage

Lettuce

1 egg

I like to use this meehoon because it is packed individually which makes it very easy to use so no meehoon strips falling all over the kitchen. I allocate 1 piece of meehoon per person if they are fairly big eaters and 2 pieces for 3 people if they are small eaters.

2 pieces of the meehoon

Soak the meehoon to soften it before you start to prepare the other ingredients.

Fry the garlic and a little salt until fragrant then add the pork tendon

Add the sliced chicken and stir until it changes colour

Add 2 tbsp dark soy sauce, 1 tbsp oyster sauce and a dash of pepper

Add the Chinese cabbage and stir gently to mix everything together. 

When the cabbage is almost soft add enough hot water to cover the vegetables completely

Put in the meehoon and stir to make sure everything is well mixed

Keep on stirring until the rice vermicelli has absorbed almost all the liquid. 

Add the lettuce and mix thoroughly

Beat up the egg and fry like a thin omelette

Dish up and cut into thin strips

Dish up the meehoon and garnish with the egg strips and any other garnishing that you like