This is a lazy but still authentic version of homemade laksa I have discovered while living in Sydney in 2007 and deprived of a really good Laksa. Yes, even the famous Hunter Street@Martin Place "Malay Chinese Take Away" Laksa doesnt cut it with me because the gravy tastes more like our Chicken Curry and NOT Laksa. So the pleasant find I had was this prepacked Laksa Mix from Prima Taste. A box of laksa premix cost about A$4.75 here.
I like to balance my dishes so you might see more ingredients here than necessary. I dont like dried beancurd so I dont include it.
Serving: 2 Pax
Time to Cook: 20mins.
Ingredients
- Box of Laksa Premix
- Pack of Rice Noodles or sphagetti
- A dozen of Fresh Prawns
- Bean sprouts
- 2 Eggs
- Button Mushrooms (optional)
- Some Boy Choy Leafy Vege (optional)
- 8 crab sticks (make sure they are not the overly sweeten type)
Cooking Steps
1. Follow the Laksa Premix Instructions to prepare the sauce. I tend to add extra half cup of water to the mixture.
2. Either boil or steam fresh large prawns and when cooked, rinse with tap water and peel the shell and devein. You may choose to retain the prawn head or remove. if your prawn is not fresh and firmly stuck to the prawn body before cooking, I would remove the head.
3. Throw water, and with fresh pot of boiling water, cook vege for 2 mins and remove from pot. Set aside.
4. In the same hot pot of boiling water, cook mushrooms for 5 mins. Remove from water, set aside.
5. In the same hot pot of boiling water, cook crab stick with plastic for 3 mins, Remove from water, set aside and remove the plastic.
6. In the same hot pot of boiling water, add 2 rinsed eggs and cook them until they are hardboiled eggs. Remove from pot.
7. Throw water, and with a fresh pot of boiling water, cook noodles. When cooked, portion into the serving bowl. (New water so that your noodles do not absorb all the "flavor from prev ingredients)
8. In the same pot of used hot water, dip to cook beansprouts for only a min and remove. Portion on top of noodles.
9. You are ready to place the previously cooked ingredients on top of the noodles.
10. Pour the laksa gravy over the noodle in the serving bowl
This is my bowl of goodness:)
