Caribbean noodles with chicken ⋆ Recipe + video! ⋆ SOULFOOD.nl

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You can easily make Caribbean bami yourself. It's a delicious side dish that goes with just about anything. It gets its special, pronounced taste, of course, from the sauce that is baked in it. You make it based on soy sauce, ginger, 5 spice powder and garlic.

The funniest thing about Caribbean bami is that it is often made from 'ordinary' spaghetti. You can break it in half before cooking. You can also choose to use egg noodles. You can find these in most Surinamese and Chinese stores.

Bami with chicken wings and sour

I prefer to serve the Caribbean bami with chicken wings and sour goods (or even just pickled cucumber). You can find the sourdough recipe here. You can easily make the chicken by marinating a kilo of chicken wings in 2 tbsp sunflower oil mixed with 2 tbsp of my Curaçao Hot Chicken spice mix.

You leave this for an hour and then you bake the chicken in a frying pan, airfryer or oven until the wings are cooked and the skin is crispy. This takes about 25 minutes.

This recipe is for 4 servings of Caribbean bami

Ingredients:

350 gr spaghetti
1 large onion, chopped
2 cloves of garlic, pressed
2 tbsp sunflower oil
a piece of ginger of about 5 cm
2 bunches of Shanghai pak choi
a few sprigs of celery
3 tbsp Chinese dark soy sauce
a bouillon cube, crumbled
1 tl tomato puree
1 tsp Chinese 5 spice powder

Preparation of the Caribbean bami

Start cooking the spaghetti. Cook these according to the instructions on the package 'al dente'. You can break the spaghetti in half for this dish.

After cooking, rinse the spaghetti with cold water to wash away any starch residue. This way you prevent the Caribbean bami from becoming sticky during baking.

Chop the onion and then squeeze the garlic cloves. Grate the ginger and add it to the onion pieces. Heat the sunflower oil in a wok or frying pan over medium heat and fry the onion, ginger and garlic with a little salt until the onion is translucent.

Then turn the heat up to high and add the finely chopped bok choy and celery to the onion in the pan. Then add the spaghetti as well. Stir-fry the spaghetti for a minute and then pour over the soy sauce and scoop in a spoonful of tomato puree.

Then crumble the stock cube and divide the powder over the dish and finally add the 5 spice powder.

Stir-fry the Caribbean bami for a few minutes, until it is nicely dry and dark in colour. Serve the Caribbean bami with the chicken wings and sour goods.