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CHILLI GARLIC NOODLES

Egg Noodles stir fried with chicken/vegetables
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Servings 5

Equipment

  • Knife
  • Chopping board
  • mixing bowls
  • Pot
  • wok

Ingredients
  

For chicken

  • 2 chicken breasts (cut into thin slices) 
  • 3 medium size tomatoes
  • 2 tsp garlic paste
  • Salt 
  • 1 tbsp red Chilli flakes
  • 1 tsp sesame seeds
  • 2 tbsp Olive oil/sesame oil

For stir fry

  • 350 g medium egg noodles
  • 200 g Prawns (optional)
  • 5-6 cloves fresh garlic (finely chopped)
  • 1/2 cup cooking oil
  • Salt 
  • 1 tsp black pepper powder
  • 2 tsp ajinomoto (flavour enhancer/monosodium glutamate)
  • 1 tbsp red chilli flakes
  • 3 tbsp light soya sauce (use half the quantity if using dark soya sauce)
  • 1 tbsp Schewzan sauce (optional)
  • 1 tbsp sriracha sauce (optional) 
  • you can use any red hot chilli sauce of your choice 

Mixed Vegetables:

  • 150 g mushrooms (sliced)
  • 200 g mixed colour peppers or any colour (sliced)
  • 200 g carrots (cut into juliennes)
  • 150 g cabbage (sliced)
  • 1 medium size red onion (sliced)
  • You can add any vegetables of your choice……..the list is long …….broccoli, water chestnut, bean sprouts, mangetouts, courgette etc. Just remember that the vegetable used in this recipe doesn’t need much cooking and gives a crunch to the dish. 

Instructions
 

chicken

  • In a wok, prepare the chicken.
  • Add oil with chicken strips, garlic paste, salt, chilli flakes, sesame seeds and chopped tomatoes.
  • Fry for few minutes on medium high flame.
  • add little water just to cover and simmer cook on medium low for about 12-15 minutes. Keep the prepared chicken aside. 

Noodles

  • In a pot, boil approximately 4 cups of water with a tsp of salt. Once the water starts boiling add noodles. It should take about 5-8 minutes for the noodles to be soft. Once they are soft, switch off the gas and drain the water. Immediately rinse with cold water. Let it sit in the sieve for a while, grease it with some oil. This process will keep the noodles fresh and prevent them from sticking to each other.

Stir fry

  • In a wok, add 3tbsp cooking oil saute chopped garlic and put prawns ( if using). Fry them for few minutes. They get done really quickly so be careful don’t cook them for too long as they loose their flavour if they are over cooked. 
  • Now add all the vegetables and fry them on high flame constantly mixing them. Do not fry vegetables on low or medium heat as the vegetables will release water and become soggy. We don’t want to fully soften the vegetable, so fry them for about 4-5 minutes on high flame. We want the vegetables to be crunchy. Add chicken strips, boiled noodles with soya sauce, salt, pepper, chilli flakes, ajinomoto and the two sauces (if using). Mix it all together nicely. When mixing, keep the flame to medium. 

Notes