Fried noodles with XO chicken – Tami Goreng Ayam

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• 250 g chicken, without skin and bones, frozen
• 2 tsp XO sauce, medium hot
• 2 tbsp soy sauce, sweet
• 12 g papaya pulp, pureed, frozen
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 140 g Chinese egg noodles, dried in bars
• 10 snow peas
• 6 radishes
• 30 g carrot(s)
• 1 small spring onion(s), only the green part
• Marinade, the rest of it (see above)
• 1 tsp chicken broth powder
• 100 g water
• 1 tsp tapioca flour
• 1 tbsp rice wine, dark, spicy-mild
• 1 tbsp sambal (ginger sambal, see appendix)
• 1 ½ liters of frying oil
• 3 tbsp sunflower oil
• 1 tbsp sesame oil, dark

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

A delicious, slightly spicy street food recipe from Lombok, Indonesia.

For the chicken, cut larger pieces into bite-sized pieces. Mix all the remaining ingredients for the meat until smooth and marinate the chicken for 1 hour at room temperature. Mix well and then repeat. Strain before use. Use the leftover marinade for the sauce. Soak the egg-wheat noodles in plenty of water for 1 minute, strain, and let them swell in a sieve. For the washed vegetables, trim the snow peas at both ends, removing the strings and halving diagonally. Trim the tops and bottoms of the radishes and slice thinly crosswise. Cut the peeled carrot into julienne strips. Slice the spring onion diagonally into approximately 1 cm wide pieces. Heat the frying oil to 180 degrees Celsius. Strain the chicken pieces. Mix all the ingredients for the sauce until smooth and set aside. Cover the noodles and deep-fry in a sieve (see note) until crispy but not brown. Drain well, cut the flatbread in half, and place on serving plates. Heat the sunflower oil in a wok, add the meat pieces, and stir-fry for 90 seconds. Remove with a slotted spoon and keep warm. Add the sesame oil to the wok and heat until hot. Add the vegetables and stir-fry for 1 minute. Deglaze with the sauce and simmer for 1 minute. Pour the mixture over the noodles, add the meat pieces, serve, and enjoy. Note: The noodles will expand considerably and will spread over the entire surface. For Ginger Sambal, see: https://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/3130531466350284/Ingwer-Sambal.html