Noodle nests are a super easy and cute dish. Also something you could use as a starter or as a side dish or even something you could make for Easter or Christmas. This is something that adults and children will enjoy. It needs some preparation the day before, but nothing big and difficult. What is this recipe about? It involves noodles and boiled eggs. Pretty simple, but it would look and taste great.
Ingredients for 3 (2 portions each) noodle nests:
- 6 noodle nests
- 3 eggs
- 300 g bean sprouts
- 250 ml soy sauce
- 2 Tsp of honey
- 18 small silver onions (in a jar)
- 6 mini corns (in a jar)
- 1 spring onion
- 1 Tsp of olive oil
- salt and pepper
What you should prepare the night before is boiling the eggs and marinating them. So, boil the eggs and when they are cold enough to touch, peel them. In a small bowl prepare the marinade; mix the honey with 150 ml of soy sauce and some pepper. Put the peeled eggs into a plastic bag (for freezing the food) and cover them with the marinade. Keep it in the fridge overnight.
The next day start with the noodle nests. I don’t know how they’re exactly called, but they are already in a shape of a nest so I think the name suits them. My mother always adds them to the clear vegetable soup. They don’t need much time to be cooked. So take the nests and put them in a pan. Don’t place them on top of each other but next to each other. Cover them with 2-3 cm of boiled water, cover the pan and leave it for 6-8 minutes.
In a small pot simmer the bean sprouts in 1 cm of water for 2 minutes before removing them from the stove. Remove also the water.
Take a baking tray (a ceramic one or a normal one) and sprinkle it with some olive oil. Take the nests carefully out of the pan (one by one) and lay them on the baking tray. Sprinkle them with some salt and the remaining soy sauce and put it in the oven at 180°C for 10-15 minutes.
In the meantime take the eggs out of the fridge and out of the marinade. Don’t wash them. Cut them in half and 1 minute before taking the nests out of the oven, put them in the nests.
I like to serve the noodle nests in a deep plate while laying the egg nest on a bed of bean sprouts, topped with some spring onions, mini corn and silver onions on the side (tasty and nice as a decoration).
Enjoy!
