Mee Goreng Mamak

Malaysian

Mee Goreng Mamak

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Mee Goreng Mamak 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.

30 min Medium Eggetarian Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Blend the dried chilies and garlic into a paste.

  2. Parboil the diced potato until just tender, about 5 minutes, then drain.

  3. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a wok and fry the cubed tofu until golden, then set aside.

  4. Add the remaining oil and fry the chili-garlic paste until fragrant, about 1 minute.

  5. Push the paste aside, crack in the eggs, and scramble briefly.

  6. Add the noodles, potato, chopped tomato, tomato sauce, dark soy sauce, and light soy sauce and toss over high heat until the noodles are evenly coated, about 3 minutes.

  7. Fold in the bean sprouts and fried tofu, toss 1 minute more, and serve with lime wedges.

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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 Mee Goreng Mamak, 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. Mee Goreng Mamak carries gluten, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Mee Goreng Mamak
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 No
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
18 g
Carbs
64 g
Fat
25 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
8 g
Sodium
980 mg
Saturated fat
5 g

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

When to cook it

Mee Goreng Mamak takes about 30 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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