Char Kway Teow

Malaysian

Char Kway Teow

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Char Kway Teow is Malaysian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Medium Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Soak the wide rice noodles in hot water until pliable, then drain.

  2. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a wok over high heat and stir-fry the shrimp and garlic until the shrimp turns pink, about 2 minutes, then push aside.

  3. Crack in the eggs and scramble briefly.

  4. Add the noodles, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, and chili flakes and toss over high heat until the noodles pick up color, about 2 minutes.

  5. Add the bean sprouts and garlic chives and toss just until wilted, about 1 minute.

  6. Divide among plates and serve immediately.

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Serve it with

A Malaysian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Char Kway Teow, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Char Kway Teow carries gluten, shellfish, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Char Kway Teow
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Asam Pedas Ikan (Malaysian Spicy Sour Fish Stew)
Shellfish Yes Asam Pedas Ikan (Malaysian Spicy Sour Fish Stew)
Eggs Yes Asam Pedas Ikan (Malaysian Spicy Sour Fish Stew)
Soy Yes Asam Pedas Ikan (Malaysian Spicy Sour Fish Stew)
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
550 kcal
Protein
22 g
Carbs
62 g
Fat
24 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
4 g
Sodium
900 mg
Saturated fat
5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Char Kway Teow takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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