Main/Stir Fries

Chicken Chow Mein

Marked for Revision Time: 30 min Yields: serves Cost: $3.96 per serve Difficulty: 5/10

From Recipe Tin Eats book Dinner (also on website). Buy fridge chow mein noodles (mi xao), easy to prepare. Still not sure I know what a green onion is. Can skip wombok or substitute with iceberg lettuce. Can skip bean sprouts entirely.

Ingredients

  • Chicken thigh (or breast) 200 grams

    • sauce

  • Cornflour 2 tsp
  • White sugar 2 tsp
  • Sesame oil 2 tsp
  • Chinese cooking wine 1.5 tbsp
  • Light soy sauce 1.5 tbsp
  • Oyster sauce 1.5 tbsp
  • Pepper to taste
  • Chow mein noodles 200 grams
  • Carrots 1 whole
  • Wombok (green cabbage) 3 cups (once cut)
  • Shallots (green onion) 3 whole (stems)
  • Garlic 3 cloves
  • Bean sprouts 1 cup
  • Water 60 ml
  • Canola oil 1.5 tbsp

Steps

  1. Mix sauce ingredients in small bowl.
  2. Finely slice chicken.
  3. Boil water in a medium pot and add noodles for 1 minute, then drain.
  4. Julienne the carrot, finely shred the wombok, chop shallots into 5 cm pieces, separate white from green. Dice garlic.
  5. Heat oil in pan on high, add garlic, then chicken, then stir in 1 tbsp of sauce. Fry for 1 minute, until outside cooked but still raw.
  6. Add cabbage, carrot and white parts of shallots. Fry for 1.5 minutes until cabbage wilts.
  7. Add noodles, sauce and water, fry for 1 minute tossing well.
  8. Add bean sprouts and green parts of shallots, fry for 30 seconds.