Titi Noodles (Mie Titi)

Very unusual and never heard name I guess, for those non Indonesian
In fact, I didn't even know about this dish' existence til I met my hubby
This noodle dish is originally from Makassar - a city at Southern Sulawesi province in Indonesia, the city where my hubby was born
My in law always cook this dish everytime visiting us - and we all love it :)

What you need:

a packet of ready to eat dried noodle (easily found in supermarkets)

3 cloves of garlic - crushed

1 small onion - chopped

1 chicken breast - diced

8 fried fishballs - cut

6 chicken livers - each cut into 2

6 chicken gizzards - each cut into 2

10 medium prawns - peeled, deveined and cut into 2

10 medium button mushrooms - cut into 4 (I use 1/2 of a big can)

2 carrots - thinly sliced

1 pack of xiao bai chai - cut into 3 parts

some large limes - cut

oil, salt, pepper, water, oyster sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil, corn flour mixed with water

To marinade chicken: cooking wine, salt, pepper, soya sauce, cornflour

Marinade chicken and set aside - leave for 30minutes

Heat oil on the frying pan, stir fry onion followed by garlic til fragrant

Add in chicken, prawns, fishballs, mushrooms, carrots and water - in that order

Followed by oyster sauce, fish sauce, drops of sesame oil, salt, pepper

Stir well til all cooked - bring to boil

Add in chicken livers and gizzards - stir well

Add in xiao bai chai - mix well, followed by cornflour mixture to thicken the sauce

Adjust the  taste and thickness, off heat

Arrange dried noodle on the serving plate

Pour the mixture on top,  drizzle with cut large lime - mix well

Eat with bottled chilli sauce

Another option that my in law also does is by using beehoon (rice vermicelli)

Bring a pot of water to boil, and boil beehoon til soft

Heat oil on frying pan, and fry beehoon til crisp

This is also yummy but I am always scared everytime seeing how the beehoon absorps all the oil on the pan - after frying, the pan can turn dry - all oil are gone!

Also, many used normal (not fried) fishballs and also beefballs - another option which I didn't do as my kids don't really like beef balls

The recipe above can feed 4 hungry monsters! :)

Mine still have some leftover after 4 of us had our meal, and it's only finished after my hubby & I had it for lunch :)

Below is the cost (approx)...

dried noodles - pack of 4 = $2.50

garlic + onion = $0.50

chicken breast = $1.70

fishballs = $1.50

livers + gizzards = $2

prawns = $2.50

button mushrooms = $1.20

carrots = $1

xiao ba chai = $1

large limes = $0.50

others - from my existing stock approx $1

total  = $15.40

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