Fake Wok Noodles

One of the best foods I had while in Indonesia, was the “mie goreng” or fried noodle. While I also like to make that, I rarely have the time to get all the ingredients for it (the version I like requires one specific type of instant noodles). The ingredient to this version are easier to obtain and/or can be stored for a long time, so let’s consider this the “easy mie goreng”. 🙂

What you will need:

• 250 g spaghetti
• 100 g turkey ham, sliced
• 1 carrot, peeled
• cabbage leaves (aiming for a handful when chopped)
• 3 garlic cloves
• 3 eggs
• 1 tablespoon olive oil (and some for pasta cooking)
• 1 tablespoon salty soy sauce
• 2 tablespoon sweet soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• ground white pepper to taste
• 100 g salted peanuts

How to make it:

1. Cook the pasta in a pot, adding olive oil and salt to the water
2. While the pasta is cooking, cut the vegetables to julienne, and crush the garlic cloves
3. Once the pasta is done, just drain it and put it to the side
4. Heat the oil in a frying pan and sauté the garlic for 1-2 minutes, add the turkey ham right after
   

   Turkey ham and garlic

5. Add in the vegetables and sauté for another 5 minutes or so
   

   Carrot and cabbage

6. Add the soy sauces and the spices, cook for roughly 5 minutes
   

   Salty and sweet soy sauce

7. Add in the spaghetti, starting the “to taste” part of the recipe. I for one, like to fry the noodles well, even before adding the eggs (that means about another 5 minutes)
   

   The noodle

8. Beat the eggs into the noodle, mix and fry it until you have little pieces of scrambled eggs all over the noodle (or, you know, you can leave eggs out alltogether if you like 🙂 )
9. Serve in bowls with salted peanut as topping
   

   The extra crunch

   I find that with the salty soy sauce, and the peanuts, you don’t really need added salt, but in case you feel the need, salt away. 🙂