Simple chicken chow mein
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- less than 10 mins
- Serve
- Serves 2
- Dietary
- HealthyPregnancy-friendly
This speedy chow mein is ready in 15 minutes – now that's what we call fast food! It makes a great weeknight dinner and is especially good as a lazy friday fakeaway.
By Jimmy Lee
From Morning Live
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 50g/1¾oz beansprouts
- 200g/7oz cooked chicken, sliced
- ½ white onion, sliced
- 200g/7oz soft egg noodles, blanched
- 1 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tsp light soy sauce
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
- pinch white pepper
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 spring onion, chopped
Method
Place a wok over a high heat. Once hot, add the vegetable oil and reduce the heat to medium. Add the beansprouts, cooked chicken and onion, and stir-fry for 1 minute
Add the blanched noodles and stir-fry for a further 30 seconds.
Add the dark and light soy sauce, oyster sauce and a pinch of white pepper. Toss in the pan to coat the noodles, chicken and vegetables.
Stir-fry for a further 2 minutes, until the noodles become slightly crisp.
Take the pan off the heat and stir in the sesame oil and spring onions. Serve immediately.
Recipe tips
If you don't have cooked chicken leftover from a roast or similar, you can buy packets of it from most supermarkets. To cook chicken quickly without drying it out, try poaching a chicken breast in a small saucepan of water.
To blanch noodles, simply put the noodles in a bowl and pour over boiling hot water. Leave for a few minutes until softened but not fully cooked.
