Myanmar - Rakhine Noodle (Rakhine Moat-tee)

Rakhine Noodle 

(Rakhine Moat-tee)

Ingredients

-       (6-8 servings)

-       1 lb any good fish

-       2 tbsp shrimp paste

-       1 teasp salt

-       4 cloves garlic, crushed

-       1 tbsp pepper

-       2 teasp oil

-       5 tbsp pea powder

-       3 tbsp chily powder

-       3 tbsp tamarine

-       1 tbsp shrimp paste

-       10 pcs hot chillies

-       3 pounds thin rice noodle (1 lb if dried) (boil if dried)

Directions

-       Remove bones from fish if any.

-       Boil the top 5 items in 2 quarts of water for 20 minutes.

-       Take out 1/3 of boiled fish, and dry in a pan to get fish-powder with 1 tea spoon of oil.

-       Fry 2 tbsp of chily powder in 1 tea-spoon of oil.

-       In each small plates, prepare these on table:

o    grind chillies

o    tamarind paste and water

o    shrimp paste and water

o    cooked pea powder

o    cooked chilly powder

-       Serve rice noodle in bowls.

-       Mix a little of each from small plates.

-       Serve the thin fish soup in seperate bowl.

-       When some like to eat with soup, add the soup to noodle.