Pansit Bihon

Title:
Pansit Bihon

Yield:
3 Servings

Categories:
Main
Dishes,
Chicken,
Pasta,
Philippino,
Asian




Ingredients:





     6 md Dried Chinese mushrooms


     4 oz Rice vermicelli (pansit


          -bihon)


   2/3 c  -oil


     7 cl Garlic; minced


   2/3 c  Onion; chopped


   1/2    Chicken breast; boned


     2 sm Chicken thighs; boned


 1 2/3 c  -water


     1 tb Fish sauce; (patis or nuoc


          -mam or nam pla)


     1    Chorizo de Bilbao; diced


     1 lg Carrot; cut julienne style


     2 c  Cabbage; coarsely shredded


     2    Eggs; hard-cooked, peeled


          -and quartered






     Noodles With Chicken & Deep-Fried Garlic)


 


    Soak mushrooms and rice vermicelli in separate bowls of hot water 20


 minutes, remove tough mushroom stems and cut caps into thin strips. Drain


 noodles.


    In soup pot or deep skillet, heat about 1 Tablespoon oil and saute 1 1/2


 tsp. of minced garlic and onion until tender but not browned. Add chicken


 and water. Cover and simmer about 20 minutes or until meat falls away from


 bones. Remove chicken from broth. Chill broth and remove fat or, if you are


 not working ahead, just degrease warm broth. Shred chicken meat. (Can do


 above ahead.) Combine defatted broth and fish sauce and bring mixture to


 boiling. Add rice sticks and simmer about 5 minutes until most of liquid is


 absorbed. There should be some unabsorbed broth with noodles to act as


 sauce for all ingredients.


    Meanwhile, heat remaining oil in small heavy skillet and deep-fry


 remaining garlic just until pale golden. Pour oil through strainer and


 drain garlic on paper toweling.


    Heat 2 Tablespoons of garlic oil in wok or skillet. Stir-fry chorizo


 until heated through. Add carrot and fry until almost crisp-tender, add


 cabbage and mushrooms and continue to stir-fry until cabbage is almost


 crisp-tender. Stir in chicken, then stir vegetable mixture into noodles.


    Arrange noodle mixture on platter and surround with hard- cooked egg


 quarters. Sprinkle fried garlic over noodles.


    Makes 3 main-dish servings or 6 side-dish servings.


 


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