Main/Stir Fries

Chicken Chow Mein

Time: 30 min Yields: serves Cost: $4.49 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. Probably skip bean sprouts and wombok (or substitute with iceberg lettuce).

Ingredients

    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
  • Chicken thigh 250 grams
  • Chow mein noodles 200 grams
  • Carrots 1 whole
  • Wombok (green cabbage) 3 cups
  • Spring onions 3 whole (stems)
  • Garlic 3 cloves
  • Bean sprouts 1 cup
  • Canola oil to fry

Steps

  1. Mix sauce ingredients in small bowl.
  2. Finely slice chicken across at a 45 degree angle, then toss in a spoonful of sauce. Sit for 10 minutes.
  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. Chop the whites roughly. Dice garlic.
  5. Heat oil in pan on high, add garlic, then chicken. 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, and sauce. Fry for 1 minute tossing well, add more light soy and cooking wine if noodles look plain.
  8. Add bean sprouts and green parts of shallots, fry for 30 seconds.