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Shan warm chickpea ‘tofu’ noodle soup

Published: June 24, 2015 at 4:19 PM

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Serves 4

Easy

Total time: 40 mins

+ resting overnight

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Shan ‘tofu’ is not your usual soya bean tofu, it’s made from chickpeas and is more like a very thick soup. This recipe it's inspiration from the cuisine of Myanmar, and is taken from the book From China To Vietnam by Luke Nguyen (£25, Hardie Grant).

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Ingredients

• 400g chickpea flour

• 60 ml peanut (groundnut) oil

• ¼ tsp turmeric

• 5 red Asian shallots

  diced

• 3 cloves garlic

  peeled and pounded

• 4cm piece ginger

  peeled and pounded

• 3 tomatoes

  diced

• 1 tsp sweet paprika

• 3 chicken thighs

  boneless and skinless, cut into 3cm chunks

• 200g baby pak choy

  leaves separated

• 200g beansprouts

  blanched

• 400g cooked rice noodles

• 1 tbsp black sesame seeds

  toasted

• 1 tbsp unsalted peanuts

  roasted and crushed

• 2 tsp (see note) fried garlic

• 1 tbsp light soy sauce

• 1 tbsp sugar cane syrup or cane syrup

TO GARNISH

• sliced spring onion
• chilli flakes
• lime wedges

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Method

• step 1

  In a large bowl, whisk the chickpea flour and 1 litre cold water together until smooth. Leave to settle overnight.

• step 2

  Ladle the liquid from the top of the chickpea mixture into a large pan. Put over a low heat and cook for 15 minutes, stirring or whisking so it doesn’t go lumpy. Now begin to add a few tablespoons of the remaining chickpea mixture every 2 minutes for the next 15 minutes, whisking or stirring often, until all the mixture is incorporated. The liquid will get thicker and thicker.

• step 3

  Put the peanut oil in a frying pan and fry the turmeric, shallot, garlic and ginger for 15 minutes. Add the tomato, paprika, chicken and a pinch of sea salt. Stir-fry over medium heat for 10 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked. Remove from the heat and set aside.

• step 4

  Briefly blanch the baby bok choy in boiling water, adding the bean sprouts at the last minute. Drain and set aside.

• step 5

  To serve, divide the noodles among four soup bowls. Ladle the chickpea mixture over the noodles, then top with the chicken. Top each bowl with the bok choy, beansprouts, sesame seeds, peanuts, fried garlic, soy sauce and sugar cane syrup, and garnish.

Cooks note:

Fried garlic

You can make fried garlic by shallow frying finely sliced garlic cloves in vegetable oil until golden. Strain the garlic though a metal sieve and put on paper towels to dry. Reserve the garlic-flavoured oil to use in salads.

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