Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, beef or chicken chow mein. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. The sauce is made from garlic, rice wine, light stock, MSG, salt and corn flour.
Beef or Chicken Chow Mein is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Beef or Chicken Chow Mein is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:
- Take 600 grams chicken breasts or beef cut into slices
- Make ready 300 grams medium egg noodles
- Take 4 tsp chinese 5 spice powder
- Get 2 tsp chilli powder ( optional)
- Take 1 dash toasted sesame oil
- Prepare 1 dash groundnut oil
- Get 1 dash dark soy sauce
- Prepare 1 dash light soy sauce
- Make ready 1 pinch ground black pepper
- Prepare 1 dozen chestnut mushrooms
- Take 1 bunch spring onions
- Take 2 tbsp cornflour
- Take 2 red pepper
- Take 400 grams bean sprouts
- Take 1 pinch salt
This Chicken Chow Mein is the style usually served in UK Chinese restaurants and takeaways - made simply with soy, garlic, beansprouts and egg noodles. Making take-away favourites in the Actifry, such as this chicken chow mein, salt and pepper chips or even crispy chilli beef is a great way to enjoy treat meals without any hidden ingredients or excessive oil. In essence, beef chow mein is a type of stir-fry. In fact, "chow mein" in Chinese translates into "stir-fried" and "noodles", respectively.
Steps 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
In essence, beef chow mein is a type of stir-fry. In fact, "chow mein" in Chinese translates into "stir-fried" and "noodles", respectively. This beef chow mein is very similar to a Chinese mixed vegetable stir-fry. However, unlike the former, the latter doesn't include noodles. Home > Recipes > International > Chicken Chow Mein.
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