Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, beef or chicken chow mein. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Beef or Chicken Chow Mein is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Beef or Chicken Chow Mein is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Chow mein is made with either seafood, often just prawns, chicken, beef or barbecued pork. Restaurants will serve a combination chow mein or a single type. Chicken and beef are often softened with a little bicarbonate of soda.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook beef or chicken chow mein using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Beef or Chicken Chow Mein:
- Prepare 600 grams chicken breasts or beef cut into slices
- Prepare 300 grams medium egg noodles
- Prepare 4 tsp chinese 5 spice powder
- Prepare 2 tsp chilli powder ( optional)
- Get 1 dash toasted sesame oil
- Take 1 dash groundnut oil
- Get 1 dash dark soy sauce
- Prepare 1 dash light soy sauce
- Make ready 1 pinch ground black pepper
- Make ready 1 dozen chestnut mushrooms
- Prepare 1 bunch spring onions
- Take 2 tbsp cornflour
- Make ready 2 red pepper
- Make ready 400 grams bean sprouts
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
Chicken chow mein is probably already one of your favorite Chinese takeout dishes. This one-pan dinner is so satisfying with chicken, vegetables, classic chow mein noodles, and the best homemade chow mein sauce. Also, it's way healthier than ordering takeout. Chow Mein is a Chinese dish of stir fried noodles with vegetables and sometimes shredded meat like chicken, beef, pork or seafood.
Instructions to make Beef or Chicken Chow Mein:
- Rinse and chop mushrooms into quarters, chop spring onions lengthways and chop red pepper into slices. Rinse beansprouts and leave aside with spring onion, keep chopped mushrooms and pepper seperate.
- In a large mixing bowl add sliced beef or chicken and season with five spice powder and chilli powder, add dash of dark soy sauce and then add cornflour and mix well. Leave to marinate until ready to fry.
- Boil medium egg noodles in a pan of boiling waters for about 3 minutes. When cooked drain and rinse with cold water. Add a dash of toasted sesame oil and work through the noodles ensuring they don't stick together.
- Heat a large wok on hob until smoking then add dash of groundnut oil and fry chicken or beef for about 5 mins constantly stirring. Add the peppers and mushrooms fry for a further 2 minutes then add beansprouts and spring onions and fry for a further 1 minute constantly stirring and add the noodles and fry again for 1 minute. add more toasted sesame oil where needed to fry with. stir with a pinch of salt and black pepper adding more depending on taste.
- plate up and serve with prawn crackers
The words chow mein really just mean "stir fried noodles". Let me first say that I love both Chow Mein and Lo Mein, they are a couple of my favorites whenever I go to a. "Mein" means noodles, so whether you order chicken chow mein or chicken lo mein, you'll end up with egg-enhanced wheat noodles on your plate. But the dishes are prepared differently, which is why chow mein has the slight edge from a health standpoint. Chicken chow mein: The classic Chinese dish. Baked chicken chow mein: This is made with broiled noodles to cut down on the fat.
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