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Laksa Lemak (Siam Laksa)
A wonderfully aromatic bowl of noodles in a delicious fish-based sauce
Prep Time
20
minutes
mins
Cook Time
45
minutes
mins
Course:
Main Course, Snack, Soup
Cuisine:
Hawker, Nyonya
Keyword:
fish, laksa, soup
Servings:
6
Author:
Li-ling Ooi
Ingredients
Spice paste
5
tbsp
vegetable oil
12
bulbs
shallots, roughly chopped
(or 4 white onions)
6
bulbs
garlic
2
tbsp
Tean's crispy prawn chilli
(replace this with 6 pieces of rehydrated dried chilli and 2 tsp belacan)
2
stalks
lemon grass, finely chopped
(use only the white section)
2
tbsp
coriander powder
1/2
tbsp
tumeric powder
3
tsp
belacan
For curry sauce
3
tbsp
fish sauce
400
ml
(thick) coconut milk
(1 can)
4
tbsp
salt
3
tbsp
sugar
1
litre
water
4
cans
drained tuna, flaked
(145 g in spring water)
Noodles and toppings
1
cucumber, julienned
1
small
pineapple, julienned
1
red
onion, finely sliced
1
handful
mint leaves
1
fresh red chilli, sliced
1
pack
pre-soaked rice sticks or laksa rice noodles (400g)
6
tbsp
'hae ko' prawn paste (dilute further with hot water)
Optional toppings
1
torch ginger flower, finely chopped
3
small
pickled onions
1
handful
'chean hong' polygonum (Vietnamese coriander)
Instructions
Cook rice sticks/noodles according to pack instructions. Drain and set aside.
Blend all spice paste ingredients (except oil) until finely ground.
In a large pot, heat the vegetable oil. Add blended spice paste and stir fry until fragrant, about 5 minutes.
Add fish sauce and coconut milk and stir to mix well.
Add salt, sugar and water and bring to boil.
Carefully pour in tuna. Stir well to break up larger tuna chunks.
Simmer for 10 minutes.
To serve
Place one serving of rice noodles in to a bowl.
Add generous helpings of the toppings as desired.
Pour sauce over noodles and add a generous amount of 'hae ko'.
Serve immediately.
Notes
Options:
If you prefer to use fresh fish, mackerel is the fish of choice for this dish.
Boil 4-5 mackerel in 1 l of water.
Debone and flake the mackerel and set aside to add in to the cooked sauce.
Use the fish stock in place of water.