Mì Quảng

Name: Mì Quảng
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 500 g Fresh wide rice noodles; 1.5 tsp Turmeric powder; 300 g Prawns, shell on; 300 g Pork belly, sliced; 4 Shallots, sliced; 5 Garlic cloves, minced; 2 tbsp Annatto seed oil or paprika oil; 3 tbsp Fish sauce; 500 ml Pork or prawn stock; 60 g Roasted peanuts, crushed; 4 Sesame rice crackers (bánh tráng mè); 3 handfuls Bean sprouts, banana blossom, herbs; 1 lime, 2 chillies Lime and fresh chilli

Wide turmeric-yellow noodles with prawns and pork, a broth measured in spoonfuls rather than ladles, and a sheet of sesame rice cracker broken over the top — Quảng Nam's noodle, and nothing like phở.

Source

Recipe by Quảng Nam and Hội An kitchens · 🏺 Traditional · Central-coast cooking either side of Hội An — turmeric rather than chilli, noodles barely wet with broth, and dishes a town claims as its own rather than the country’s

Quảng Nam · the province's noodle — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms it as a Vietnamese noodle dish originating in Quảng Nam Province in central Vietnam and one of the region's most popular. Quantities and the little-broth discipline are this book's own.

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Steps

Fry the shallots and garlic in the annatto oil until fragrant, about 3 minutes.
Add the pork and turmeric, fry 5 minutes, then the prawns for 2 minutes more.
Pour in the stock and fish sauce. Simmer 15 minutes — no longer, this is not a long broth.
Divide the noodles into wide shallow bowls and spoon the meat and prawns over.
Add only two or three spoonfuls of broth per bowl — enough to wet the noodles, not to cover them.
💡 This is the whole discipline of the dish. Vietnamese cooks judge a bowl of mì Quảng by how little broth is in it.
Top with peanuts and herbs, and break a sesame cracker over each bowl at the table.

💡 Tips

From Quảng Nam province, and every family claims a different broth. Chicken, fish and frog versions are all normal.
Break the cracker yourself, at the table. Broken in advance it goes soft and stops being the point.