SERVES: 2
TIME: fairly quick
INGREDIENTS
Fine/medium egg noodles - 100g (or two bundles)
Chicken thighs - 2 of them - cubed into bite sized pieces
Quails eggs - 6-8 boiled and shelled (optional)
French Beans - 10 nos - cut into 2 inch long pieces
Carrot - 1 large - either julienned or cut into thin round slices
Red Onion - 1 large - cut into thick long slices
Ginger - 1/2 inch piece - finely chopped
Garlic - 1 large clove - finely chopped
Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp
Dark soy sauce - 2 tbsp
Rice wine vinegar - 2 tsp
Freshly ground pepper and salt - to taste
Ketchup - 1.5 tbsp
METHOD
Cook the noodles as per the packet instructions and rinse them with cold water and drain.
Marinate the chicken with 1 tbsp of the soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, salt, and black pepper.
Heat 1 tbsp of oil in the wok and fry the chicken pieces for abt 4-5 mins or until just cooked (so it will be juicy!!)
Remove the chicken from the wok and fry the drained noodles in the chicken flavoured oil left in the wok. After the noodles are heated through -it will give it a smokey flavour.. yummy!!..- put the noodles into the container with the cooked chicken.
Heat up the rest of the oil and fry the ginger and garlic in the oil making sure not to burn it.
Stirfry the onion, beans and carrots until it is cooked, then add the boiled eggs.
Add the noodles, cooked chicken and stirfry all of the ingredients together.
Season the noodles, add soy sauce and ketchup.
CHICKEN CHOWMEIN IS READY!!..:)
