Indonesian Chicken Noodle – Hawkers Style (Mie Ayam Abang- abang)

Main Ingredients:

• 1 whole chicken – all part are useful even the carcases so no waste.
  • Diced all the chicken meat to be sautéed for the chicken topping
  • Set aside all the chicken skin for the chicken oil
  • Set aside all the bones for the chicken broth

• 2 pack of uncooked egg noodles – if you able to make it fresh, even better but who got the time?

 

Rest of the ingredients:

• Chicken topping:
  • Blended together:
    • 1 whole onion
    • 4 garlic cloves
    • 7 shallots
    • 4 candlenuts
    • 1 teaspoon of coriander powder
    • 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder
    • 1 cm of ginger
    • 1 cm of galangal (OPTIONAL)
  • Other ingredients:
    • The diced chicken
    • 3 salam leaves or if not available, you could use bay leaves
    • 1 stalk of lemongrass – bruised
    • 1 teaspoon of sugar or to taste
    • 1 teaspoon of salt or to taste
    • 4 tablespoon of Kecap Manis (sweet soy sauce)
    • 1 tablespoon of Worchester sauce
    • 1 teaspoon of sesame oil

• Chicken Oil (Minyak Ayam):
  • 300 ml vegetable oil
  • 300 gram chicken skin or chicken fat
  • 3 garlic cloves – bruised
  • 1 shallot – bruised
  • 2 cm ginger – bruised
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric
  • ½ teaspoon white pepper
  • 1 teaspoon coriander seed – coarse roughly

• Chicken broth:
  • Chicken bones
  • 1 liter of cold water
  • 1 cm ginger
  • 3 stalks of spring onion
  • 2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon pepper

 

Condiments (Optional):

• Soy sauce
• Sweet soy sauce
• Chilli sauce
• Fried shallots
• Bok Choy or Pok Coy or any type of Chinese green vegetable as you wish – Blanched
• Chopped spring onions
• Fried wonton – I have the recipe here

 

HOW TO:

• Chicken oil:
  • Heat up the oil
  • Put all the ingredients and cook it in low heat
  • Stir it constantly until the chicken skins are golden brown
  • Turn off the heat
  • Strain it into the bowl to make sure the oil is clean from all the ingredients as we just wanted to infused the flavor

 

•  Chicken broth:
  • Boil the water into the pan
  • Pour all the ingredients and cook for 20-30 minutes
  • Once cooked, set aside

 

• Chicken topping:
  • Heat up the oil
  • Cook the blended ingredient for 3 minutes
  • Add the diced chicken, salam leaves, lemon grass, all the sauces and salt pepper and sugar to taste.
  • Add 1 ladle of the chicken broth
  • Let it simmer and reduced until the chicken is cooked
  • Make sure to taste it and adjust the salt, pepper and sugar as per your liking
  • Turn off the heat and set aside

 

• Noodle:
  • Boiled the water
  • Cook the noodle for 2 – 3 minutes or as per your liking. I like it a little al dente

 

• Presentation (Very last Step):
  • In a bowl, put 2 tablespoon of the chicken oil, 1 teaspoon of soy sauce and 1 teaspoon of sweet soy sauce, mix well.
  • Put the noodle, mix well
  • Add the chicken topping and all the condiments

ENJOY!