How To Make Authentic Laksa From Scratch | Recipe | Asian Cooking

coconut milk

🥗Healthier: light coconut milk

💰Cheaper: evaporated milk

Light coconut milk reduces calories while maintaining creaminess.

prawns

🥗Healthier: chicken breast

💰Cheaper: canned tuna

Canned tuna is more affordable and still provides protein.

laksa paste

🥗Healthier: homemade spice blend

💰Cheaper: curry powder

Homemade blends can be healthier and tailored to taste.

tofu

🥗Healthier: tempeh

💰Cheaper: seitan

Seitan is often cheaper and provides a meat-like texture.

Peel the prawns to make prawn stock using the shells.

Fry a handful of prawn shells in oil with tomato paste to make prawn oil.

Prepare the laksa paste by blending ginger, fresh turmeric, dried chilies, galangal, lemongrass, fresh chilies, onion, candlenuts, ground coriander, shrimp paste, and garlic.

Fry the laksa paste in oil for 10-15 minutes to release fragrances.

Strain the prawn stock into the fried paste and simmer for 10-15 minutes.

Add coconut milk to the soup and season with sugar and salt.

Add fried tofu puffs, deveined prawns, and sliced fried fish cakes into the soup.

Blanch rice noodles and bean sprouts separately in hot water.

Assemble the dish by adding noodles to bowls, ladling the soup over them, and garnishing with prawn oil, hard-boiled eggs, coriander, Vietnamese mint, and sambal.

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