I am very keen in cooking. I love trying new recipes and improvising them. I especially like to experiment ways to prepare and cook them faster. Many of the traditional Asian recipes are tedious and time consuming.  Whenever I look at mouth watering recipes online, I would be tempted to try but the long tedious process would put me off. Then I would scrutinise the recipe to see where I can take a short cut or maybe simplify or omit a step. While attempting to improvise recopies, I will always try to retain the original flavour.

This Fast Easy Asian Vermicelli is one of my short cut recipes.

 

Try and enjoy!

Ingredients

1/2 of 500g rice vermicelli packet
3 eggs

·         ½ of 12 oz packet extra firm tofu

·         3 tbsp of dried small shrimp

·         1 tbsp of  (ginger /garlic  paste)

·         2 tbsp of chilli paste

·         3 tbsp of soy sauce

·         Salt if required

·         2 tbsp of oil

(Note : For the chilli paste and ginger /garlic paste, you could either buy the bottled ones sold in markets or department stores or visit my blog for my own home made paste recipes.) Visit http://vishalicookbook.blogspot.com/

 

 

Method

1.    Soak rice vermicelli in warm water with 1 tbsb of salt for 2 mins. Drain and keep aside.

2.    Heat oil in deep wok or pan, add the chilli paste and ginger/ garlic paste and fry for 5 mins

3.    Add the shrimps and fry for 2 min

4.    Add the tofu and egg and fry for 5 mins on low heat.

5.    Add the soy sauce and stir for 1 min

6.    Finally add the vermicelli and fry until all the vermicelli has turned slightly red.

7.    Taste. Add salt or soy sauce if needed.

 

  

Tips

I usually cut the remaining tofu into cubes; rub little salt and deep fry.

This serves as an easy snack or side dish.

Store the remaining vermicelli in a zip lock bag.

 

         My Recommendations

      This Fast Easy Asian Vermicelli can be served with hot wings or meat cutlets

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