Main/Stir Fries

Chicken Chow Mein

Marked for Revision Time: 30 min Yields: serves Cost: $4.43 per serve Difficulty: 5/10

From recipetineats book Dinner. Buy fridge chow mein noodles, easy to prepare. Still not sure I know what a green onion is.

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 5 cloves
  • Bean sprouts 1.5 cups
  • Water 60 ml
  • Canola oil 1.5 tbsp

Steps

  1. Mix sauce ingredients.
  2. Finely slice chicken and toss in 1 tbsp of sauce.
  3. Fill noodle packet with hot water and sit for a minute, then drain (or whatever the packet says).
  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, fry for 10 seconds.
  6. Add chicken, fry for 1 minute, until brown but still raw.
  7. Add cabbage, carrot and white parts of shallots. Fry for 1.5 minutes until cabbage wilts.
  8. Add noodles, sauce and water, fry for 1 minute tossing constantly.
  9. Add bean sprouts and green parts of shallots, fry for 30 seconds.