Mee Bakso

During one of my Hari Raya visitings, my husband’s cousin served us this delicious dish.

Ingredient A:

Pound the following ingredients into a paste

1 stalk of lemongrass

1.5cm knob of ginger

2 onions

3 cloves of garlic

Ingredient B:

1 pack of beefballs (contains about 30 beefballs)

1 litre of beef broth or 1 cube of beef stock

500g of yellow noodle – dip in boiling water for few minutes  before serving.

300g of bean sprout

A bunch of chye sim – chop them about 5 cm long and dip in boiling water for few minutes before serving.

Fried shallots for garnishing

Ingredients for the sauce:

Mix 5 birds’ eye chillis (5 stalks up to your liking and pound them) & sweet soya sauce together.

Method:

• Fill about 2 litres of water into a pot and add in Ingredient A, beefballs, beef stock and mix them till the ingredients cooked/boiled.
• Add in salt & pepper to taste.

Serving suggestion (individual serving):

• Put the yellow noodle, chye sim, bean sprout into a soup bowl. Pour in the soup and beef balls into the bowl. Add in the sauce and garnish it with fried shallots.