Chicken chow mein
By Sara Buenfeld
Cooking time
Prep: 30 mins Cook: 35 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 2As part of our 'Cooking with Auntie Sara' series, Sara Buenfeld shows the kids how to make the classic takeaway favourite
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition
- kcalories
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- protein
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- carbs
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- fat
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- saturates
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- fibre
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- sugar
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- salt
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Ingredients
For the sauce
- thumb-size piece fresh root ginger
- 2 garlic cloves
- 3 tbsp tomato ketchup
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 2 tbsp reduced-salt soy sauce
For the noodles
- 1 large red pepper
- 5 spring onions
- half a 400g bag beansprouts
- 1 large or 2 small chicken breasts
- 3 nests medium egg noodles
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
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Method
- Use a potato peeler to remove the skin from the ginger. Discard skin, then carefully grate 1 tbsp from the root. Put in a bowl, crush in the garlic, and add the ketchup, oyster sauce, soy sauce and 3 tbsp water. Stir.
- Use a sharp knife to cut the pepper into quarters on a board. Remove the seeds and stalk, then slice diagonally into strips. Cut the ends from the spring onions, and cut the green and white of the onion lengthways. Open the bag of beansprouts. Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces.
- Boil a large pan of water on the hob. when the water is boiling, drop in the noodles, turn off the heat and set the timer to 4 mins. when the time is up, drain in a colander or a large sieve in the sink. ask an adult to help you.
- With everything prepared, you can now start cooking. Heat the wok – it’s hot enough when it starts to smoke. add the oil and chicken. Use a wooden spoon to keep moving the chicken around the wok until it is half white, half pink. add the pepper and stir-fry for a further 1 min.
- Pour the sauce into the wok and stir well until bubbling.
- Add the noodles, beansprouts and spring onions a handful at a time, then toss into the sauce until it is well coated, stirring constantly until the beansprouts wilt. Serve in bowls – an easy way is to use tongs.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, September 2008
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
Excellent sauce recipe!!! Use a wok and cover to steam veg
Kids Love it, Tomato Sauce brilliant!!
Have cooked this 6 or more times and have made the following enhancements: Use fresh Rice Noodles and mix in near the end add thin strips of carrot, mangetout,green beans etc, also remove Beansprouts & spring onions (kids don't like them) and add a cup of water with the rice noodles, makes the sauce go further!! Cover the wok for 5 mins to steam the veg.
Loved this recipe! I didn't have any Ginger so left it out, and I don't like bean sprouts so I left them out as well. But I added mushrooms and carrots(they needed to be used up!) and instead of spring onions I used a half a red onion, since I halved the recipe. And it didn't take 35 mins to cook!!!
Great recipe. After cooking the noodles I drain and add cold water to stop noodles cooking any more. used 4 table spoons of oyster sauce and Japanese Kikkomon soy sauce (less salty than Chinese), a squirt of tomato sause and then equal amount of water. Used sliced onion and added peas. Used three nests for three people, two would have been enough. Enjoyed very much