Beef chow fun
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 10 to 30 mins
- Serve
- Serves 2
Beef chow fun is a comforting Cantonese noodle dish packed with umami flavours. It's quick to make at home with very little prep required, once you have all your ingredients together it will be finished in less than 15 minutes.
Ingredients
For the marinated beef
- 300g/10½oz beef steak, sliced against the grain into thin strips
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tbsp cornflour
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
For the chow fun
- 200g/7oz dried wide flat rice noodles
- 2–3 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 150g/5½oz beansprouts
- 3 spring onions, trimmed, white parts finely sliced and green parts roughly chopped
For the sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry
- 1 tbsp runny honey
- 1 tsp white pepper
Method
To make the marinated beef, mix the beef, bicarbonate of soda, cornflour, oyster sauce and light soy sauce well in a bowl and set aside.
To start making the chow fun, prepare the noodles according to the packet instructions. Usually, dried noodles are rehydrated in boiling water for about 5 minutes then drained and washed in cold water.
To make the sauce, mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
To finish making the chow fun, heat the oil in a wok over a high heat. Add the marinated beef mixture and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Set the beef mixture aside.
With the wok still over a high heat, cook the onion, beansprouts and spring onions for about 1 minute. Add the noodles and then add the beef back in.
Mix everything together and then pour in the sauce. Toss together and cook for about 30 seconds–1 minute. Serve immediately.
Recipe tips
You can also buy fresh flat rice noodles from most Chinese supermarkets.
You can buy packs of ready sliced stir fry beef from most supermarkets, but the quality tends to be better when you slice a whole piece of steak.
