PREPARATION
- Prepare Laksa Paste: Blend all paste ingredients until smooth.
- Make Prawn Stock: Sauté prawn heads and shells until dry and fragrant. Add water and simmer for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Strain the stock.
- Laksa Gravy: Sauté laksa paste until fragrant. Add coconut milk, prawn stock, fish sauce, and brown sugar. Simmer until flavours meld.
- Cook Noodles and Protein: Blanch noodles and cook prawns and pork collar. Assemble noodles in bowls, pour over laksa gravy, and top with prawns, pork collar, fishcakes, tofu puffs, bean sprouts, and boiled eggs. Garnish with laksa leaves and sambal chilli.