Recipe: Bumee Tum Yum Moo

Vegetables along with chilli paste and uncooked bumee noodles

Making a quick and tasty Bumee Tum Yum Moo can be easy if you have the right ingredients in the cupboard. For those that may not know what Bumee Tum Yum Moo is, it is a spicy and sour egg noodle soup. I have a great little local Thai Grocery store not far from where I live and I almost exclusively shop there for my weekly supply of food. I usually buy my vegetables and meats there and they have many Thai spices. Of these, I like to keep an ample supply of chilli paste, sold in small jars at the store. I also keep pork powder and lime juice. Once and awhile I buy fresh bumee noodle (thin egg noodle).

OK, here we go.. Take a medium size bowl, place a half a tablespoon pork powder, add a tablespoon of chilli paste and about a cup and a half of water, mix.. Add freshly diced vegetables such as red onion, tomato, chinese celery and fresh Thai basil (my favorite mix). I also add about 1/2 cup of ground pork (I usually keep in the fridge). Mix again and place bowl in microwave for 2 to 3 minutes to cook the vegetables, al dente.

While cooking, place two cups of boiling water in another bowl. Loosen the bumee noodles as you drop them in the hot water, let stand 1 minute Drain the remaining water, place noodles in the bowl with the cooked vegetables, add lime juice to taste, mix and eat. Quite Tasty!

With all the ingredients on hand, it only takes about 10 minutes to make. ​

Cooking the noodle takes only a brief dip in hot water.

The broth, vegetables and meat mixture before heating in the microwave.