Shan noodle
This popular Burmese dish Shan Noodles recipe made with sticky rice noodle with chicken tomato sauce and lots of flavourful garlic, chilli and pickle toppings. This noodle is very popular all across Burma.
Servings: 4
Calories: 899kcal
Ingredients
- 300 g Chicken
- 200 g Dry rice Noodles
- 2 Vine Tomato
- 2 Shallots
- 3-4 Garlic cloves
- 1 tsp Paprika/Chilli powder
- 2 tsp Light soy sauce
- 1 tsp Dark soy sauce
- 1 tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Chinese five spices
- ½ cup Water
- 2-3 Spring Onions
- 3-4 tbsp Sweet Soy sauce
- Crushed Roasted Peanuts to garnish
Garlic oil
- 10-12 cloves Garlic
- ½ cup Oil
- 1 tbsp Sesame seed
Chilli Oil
- 2 tbsp Chilli flakes
- ½ cup Oil
Pickle
- 1 Carrot
- 2-3 Green Chilli
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 tbsp Vinegar
- 1 tbsp Water
Instructions
Garlic oil
- Heat oil to medium heat and add chopped garlic and stir till the garlic turned into slightly brown, then add the sesame seeds stir for few seconds. Put in a small bowl and set aside.
Chilli Oil
- Add chilli flakes into a small bowl. Heat oil to medium high heat and pout into to chilli flakes and mix well. Set aside.
Pickle
- Julienne the carrot and cut the green chilli into thin slices. Put in a bowl, add salt, sugar, vinegar , water. Mix well and set aside.
Chicken and tomato curry
- Cut chicken into small pieces. Finely chop tomato, garlic and shallots. Heat oil and add garlic and shallots, saute for few minutes till the color slighlty bown then add chilli powder, follow by the chicken pieces. Stir for 1-2 minutes then add the chopped tomatoes, cook few mins till the tomatos are soft. Then add salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and chinese five spices. Add ½ Cup of water mix well and close the lid for 1-2 mins. ( Add more water as needed if the sauce is too thick. ). Chicken tomato is ready. Set aside.
- Boil rice noodles per packet instructions, strain it.
- For serving add one portion of noodle into the bowl, add about 2 tbsp of chicken tomato curry, 1 tbsp garlic oil, 1 tsp chilli oil, peanuts, pickle, spring onions and 1 tsp sweet soy sauce. (add some salt if needed.)
Notes
Choose the sticky rice noodle and make sure not to over cooked the noodles, Shan noodles should be a bit chewy and sticky. But its totally fine to use any rice noodles availble. You can put chilli bean sauce and mustard leaves pickle in the topping as well.
Nutrition
Calories: 899kcal | Carbohydrates: 70g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 65g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 18g | Monounsaturated Fat: 39g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 1568mg | Potassium: 487mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 4508IU | Vitamin C: 18mg | Calcium: 74mg | Iron: 2mg
