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Roast pumpkin laksa

Serving size: Serves 4
Cuisine type: Asian, Modern Australian
Cooking time: Less than 60 minutes
Special options: Heart friendly
Course: Main
Favourite flavours: Soup, Spicy

Roast pumpkin laksa
INGREDIENTS

400g pumpkin, peeled, cut into 2cm cubes
sesame oil, to drizzle
12 vine-ripened cherry tomatoes
150g rice stick noodles
3 tablespoons laksa paste
1 cup (250ml) vegetable stock
400ml coconut milk
3 kaffir lime leaves
juice of 1 lime
2 tablespoons fish sauce
200g bean sprouts
½ cup coriander leaves
4 boiled eggs, peeled (optional)

METHOD

Preheat oven to 200°C/180°C (fan forced).

Place pumpkin on a baking tray and drizzle lightly with sesame oil.

Season with salt, cover with foil and bake for 15 minutes until tender. Add tomatoes to tray and roast uncovered for 5 minutes until tomatoes begin to soften.

Place rice sticks into a bowl and pour over boiling water. Stand 5 minutes and drain.

Place laksa paste, stock, coconut milk and lime leaves in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Add pumpkin, lime juice, fish sauce and heat through.

To serve, divide noodles among 4 bowls, ladle over soup then top with tomatoes and bean sprouts and coriander. Drizzle with oil and top with deep fried eggs.

To deep fry eggs; heat oil in a saucepan over medium high heat and cook whole eggs for 3-4 minutes or until golden brown.

 
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User comments
saw it today and tried it straight away, it was delicious even though i kept it veg, so no egg. while i was cooking it and tasting the soup part i thought "oh god and i'm going to add roast pumpkin to this? disgusting!" and considered making two entirely seperate meals, a roast meal and the laksa meal. but it was absolutely amazing, great taste combinations, the bean shoots stopped it from being too mushy and the roast cherry tomatoes were just perfection. five stars!
If you want to be creative maybe you should try and think of another striking combination, something like .."spaghetti bolognese with chocolate sauce". If you want to experiment with noodles and pumpkin thats your choice but please do not call it a laksa because it is not.
How unimaginative you all are! I think this would make a lovely dish, albeit with some changes....leave out the tomato, add snow peas, mushroom, garlic and a little onion and I think this would make a lovely laksa - who says you have to stick to a "traditional" format with any meal? It's all about creativity and trying new things with food - I'm going to cook this one for sure.....
thanks for the recipe bec, I'm definately gunna try that one.. As for the pumpkin laksa.... I'm with Mel..! No way.. sounds horrible.
if you want a better laska thats easy try this 1. serves 2 1 tablespoon oil 200g chicken breasts sliced thinly 60g laska paste 4 shallots, finely chopped 1 cup water 270ml coconut milk 1 cup liquid chicken stock half teaspoon brown sugar vermiceili one quarter cup bean sprouts 1 tablespoon coriander leaves, chopped METHOD 1. heat oil gently. 2. add chicken and cook for approx. 5-10 mins until browned. 3. add shallots and laska paste and cook gently for 1 min. 4. stir in stock, water, coconut milk and brown sugar. 5. add vermicelli 6. bring to the boil and then simmer for 10 mins. 7. add bean sprouts and coriander. 8. serve immediately
I agree 100% with Mel. Maybe it should just be called 'Roast pumkin soup with laksa paste thrown in'
Tried this tonite - gross. Roast pumpkin should stick to the lamb roast, not asian cooking !!!!! The boiled eggs only added to disgustingness - my mum used to put them in tuna pasta. NOT IN LASKA! *vomits
I'm from Malaysia and this recipe truly shocks me! Why on earth would you want to corrupt such a wonderful tradional dish like laksa? Please please if you want to call this 'creation' a laksa, get rid of the pumpkin, get rid of the fish sauce (this is only used for Thai cooking, NOT malaysian, and use yellow noodles or vermicelli. Maybe after all this this dish will be somewhat edible. Unbelievable!
Sounds, great, definatley going to make it.

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