I first heard the name of Mee Jawa was during my time in university. Before that I have no idea what it is. During my university time I got to know friends from other states in Malaysia. By the way, I am from Johor. My friends from Penang and Kedah states told me that at their home town there is a very delicious food called Mee Jawa. This makes me very curious to know more about it. When they explained and described it to me, it sounds much like Mee Rebus.
I am a big fan of Mee Rebus but Mee Jawa is not Mee Rebus. What tells them apart is that Mee Jawa is a tomato-based gravy. The gravy is less thick than Mee Rebus and taste much sour. The sour taste is because of the tomato sauce is being used. However, except the gravy, other ingredients used in Mee Jawa are quite similar to Mee Rebus. Yellow noodle, boiled egg, bean curd and bean sprout are commonly used. In fact, you can add in more ingredients on your preference.
OK, I think I will stop my prologue here 😛 . Let’s see how to make a yummy Mee Jawa. I got this recipe from a friend from Penang. I adapted it a bit to suite my taste.
Mee Jawa Recipe
Ingredients: - 250 grams Yellow noodle
- 50 grams bean sprout
Gravy Ingredients: - 200 grams potato (peeled and cut into large chunks)
- 200 grams orange sweet potato (peeled and cut into large chunks)
- 1 big onion (skinned and cut into wedges) (optional)
- 2 tomatoes (skinned and cut into wedges)
- 1.5 liter Anchovy stock (Ikan bilis)
Seasoning: - 3 tablespoons tomato sauce
- 3 tablespoons chili sauce
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
Garnishing: - 1 boiled egg (cut into half)
- 1 fried bean curd (sliced)
- 3 leaves of lettuce, thinly sliced
- 1 fish cake (sliced)
- 1 calamansi lime (cut into half)
Methods: - Boil all gravy ingredients in a medium size pot.
- When potato and sweet potato are tendered (about 15 to 20 minutes), remove them from the anchovy stock and mash.
- Pour the mashed potato and sweet potato back into the anchovy stock. Stir well.
- Stir in all seasoning to taste. You might want to adjust the quantity of seasoning base on your preference. Your Mee Jawa gravy is now ready.
- Blanch yellow noodle and bean sprout. Add in gravy to the noodle and bean sprout.
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Serve up and garnish with egg, bean curd, fish cake, lettuce and calamansi lime.
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