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Little Nyonya Penang Assam Laksa Paste 250g

Little Nyonya Penang Assam Laksa Paste 250g

$4.75

(2 customer reviews)

Best By Date: Oct 2024| Product of Malaysia

Ingredients: Onion, lemongrass, tamarind, dried chilli, torch ginger flower, sugar, shrimp paste (prawn 90%, salt 10%), salt, pineapple, mint, turmeric, flavour enhancer (E621)
Allergy Advice: Contains Crustacean
Note: This product is made in a facility that also processes peanuts, tree nuts, molluscs, soy, sesame seeds and wheat gluten derivatives

Description

Penang Assam Laksa ranked at number 7 on World’s 50 Most Delicious Food compiled by CNN Go in 2011. 

In Penang, we call this dish Laksa. (Other places – Penang Assam Laksa). This dish is very unique to Penang! The stock is fish based, brewed in healthy spices, and garnished with raw fresh vegetables. What’s more – it is super delicious!

How healthy can this be? Personally, I believe this is one of the healthiest dishes you will taste. It is a marriage of sweet (from shrimp paste), sour (tamarind), spicy (chilli) and the savoury taste from the fish stock. Plus all the healthy spices bring out the delicious aroma and flavour.

When I normally cook this dish, I tend to use pure fish stock – where I would boil salmon bones for about an hour, and painstakingly debone them. After that, I would use the flesh and brew it with the pastes for hours until the aroma of assam laksa fills the air; only then it is ready for consumption.

To save time, I use the paste to cook my laksa. The aroma and taste are just as good!

This is the paste that I normally use, so with this paste and a few ingredients, you can easily whip a very nice assam laksa dish in as little as 30 minutes without having to brew the soup for hours.

Ok, let’s go impress yourself, your family and friends.

Recipe:

Note: for this recipe I am sharing, I am using canned tuna to replace the fresh fish stock.

Soup base: Using Canned Tuna

1 packet Penang Assam Laksa paste 250g – (should be good for 4 bowls of laksa)
1 can of tuna in brine 425g / or you can use fresh fish instead
1 litre of water, but add more if you prefer the soup to be more watery.
1 large onion, chopped finely (for added sweetness)
Vietnamese mint – You can get hold of it from the Chinese shop.
Tamarind peel/slices
Sugar to taste (optional)
Tamarind puree (optional)

Garnishing:

1 teaspoon of prawn paste (optional) and 1 teaspoon of hot water. It is optional as some people just don’t like the smell. As for me, it is not assam laksa without the shrimp paste.
1/4 Pineapple – julienned
1 handful/bunch of mint leaves (use only the leaves)
Half cucumber – julienned
1/2 lettuce – thinly cut
3 calamansi lime (optional) – halved. Use this if you want the laksa to be more sour.
Garnish with dehydrated Kantan (Read about dehydrated kantan)

Mint Vietnamese Mint

Mint and Vietnamese Mint

Other:

1 packet of laksa noodles – you can also use rice noodles.

Method:

  1. Bring the water to boil, add the paste, onion, can of fish, tamarind peel and Vietnamese mint. Brew on low heat for about 30 minutes to an hour.
  2. While waiting for the soup to brew, prepare all the garnishing ingredients.
  3. Continue to taste the soup, to bring the flavour to your liking. Add tamarind puree if you would like it to be a bit sour, add more canned fish for more fishy taste, or chilli powder if you would like it a bit spicy.
  4. As for the shrimp paste / hair kor, you will need 1 tsp of shrimp paste and mix it with 1 tbsp of hot / warm water. Mix and stir gently. One teaspoon is good for one serve.

Number of people: 4
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking: 30 minutes

Cook’s Note:

Penang Assam Laksa

Normally I will cook 2 packets for 6-8 people. Depending on how much soup each person consumes. For two packets of pastes, I would use about 2 kilo of bones (including head). Use 4 litres of water and brew for 1 hour (can be 20 minutes) on medium to low heat.

I would have 1.5 -2 liter of fish stock for 1 packet of paste. This should be enough for 4 people.
I use 100% stock for this dish – salmon bones @ $3.99 – $5.00 per kilo. Boil the bones for few hours, set aside to cool. After that, pick the flesh and discard the bones.

So normally when I cook assam laksa, I would cook more and deep freeze the stock for future consumption.
I also add vietnamese mint, tamarind slice and onion (for sweetness).

I would recommend if you are going to spend an hour on peeling the fish flesh, do two packets and more soup, so you can freeze for later.

As for the noodle, you can get them in any Chinese grocery shops. If not convenient, use bee hoon, it will still be OK. The texture of the Vietnamese noodle is similar to Penang’s noodles, thus I recommended this noodle.

Laksa noodle and shrimp paste that I use:

Penang Assam Laksa

Rice Noodles – Place the dried rice noodles in a heat proof container or pot, and boil 1 litre water. Once it is boiled, pour over the rice noodles and let them soak until they softens or until you are ready to cook it.

Assam Laksa Paste that I use:

Little Nyonya brand Penang Assam Laksa Paste

Penang Assam Laksa

Penang Assam Laksa

Ingredients: Onion, lemongrass, tamarind, dried chilli, torch ginger flower, sugar, shrimp paste (prawn 90%, salt 10%), salt, pineapple, mint, turmeric, flavour enhancer (E621)

Allergy Advice: Contains Crustacean

Note: This product is made in a facility that also processes peanuts, tree nuts, molluscs, soy, sesame seeds and wheat gluten derivatives

Storage: Store any un-used portions in freezer

Other ingredients you may need:

Shrimp paste

Tamarind Slices

Dehydrated Torch Ginger Flower or

Cooked Kantan

You can order all the ingredients below:

ImageNameDescriptionPriceBuyhf:att:pa_languagehf:att:pa_weight
Boy Brand Shrimp Pastes 230g
Boy Brand Shrimp Pastes 230g$5.55
Chilli Whole Boy Brand 100g & 500g
Chilli Whole Boy Brand 100g & 500g$4.95$11.95
Chilli Crushed Boy Brand 100g, 500g & 1kg
Chilli Crushed Boy Brand 100g, 500g & 1kg$3.95$15.95
Tricious Hot Chilli Pastes 500g
Tricious Hot Chilli Pastes 500g$6.95
Dried Sliced Bunga Kantan 50g
Dried Sliced Bunga Kantan 50g$24.95
Cooked Bunga Kantan 250g
Cooked Bunga Kantan 250g$4.75
Richmond Sliced Tamarind 100g Special
Richmond Sliced Tamarind 100g Special $3.95

Get your fresh ingredients:

Additional information

Weight .25 kg
Packets

1 Packet, 20 Packets, 25 Packets, 30 Packets, 35 packets, 40 Packets

2 reviews for Little Nyonya Penang Assam Laksa Paste 250g

  1. Shirley Moran (verified owner)

    Being in Oz for over half a century, yet this paste is a Godsend! So easy to make and it tasted delicious. Thank you Nyonyalicious!

  2. Bella (verified owner)

    I must say that I am not a great fan of commercially-ready-made spice pastes but I was certainly pleasantly surprised at its quality in freshness and taste. All I did was to use the fish stock after cooking the fish and the rest of the condiments like mint, pineapple and cucumber to make it super delicious!! Oh yes, don’t forget to add the prawn paste which I also bought to make it super authentic! So happy that I can make it any time with little fuss now.

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