Chow Mein Ala Pencil Boy

Submitted by pencil boy

"This is the only, & I do mean the only thing I can cook. I like to treat Gumboot Gourmet to a night out of the kitchen every once in a while & make her this, thankfully she loves it. Of course, I make her chop everything up for me, I wouldn't want to spoil her now, would I? I got this recipe from a Phillipino woman I worked with, she used to bring everything to work & make this for the office at lunch, so blame her if you don't like it! :)"

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 2 garlic cloves, chopped
• 1 small onion, thinly sliced
• 4 ounces chicken breasts, chopped
• 2 cups cabbage, finely chopped
• 1 medium carrot, shredded
• 2⁄3 cup dried rice noodles, thin ones broken into pieces
• 10 ounces fried Chinese noodles, package calls them chinese steam fried
• 4 ounces bean sprouts (optional)
• 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 1 1⁄2 cups chicken stock
• 2 tablespoons peanut oil

directions

1. Heat your wok on high heat.
2. Add peanut oil, heat & then add chicken, stirfry till it changes colour.
3. Add garlic & onion, stirfry for a couple of minutes.
4. Add cabbage & carrot, stirfry for about 3 minutes.
5. Add stock, heat for a minute then add rice noodles.
6. Add steam fried noodles.
7. Add soy sauce & oyster sauce, clap the lid on & cook till noodles are tender.
8. Add sprouts if you have 'em, but you don't really need 'em.
9. That's it, easy huh?.
10. Easily made vegetarian as we have done on occasion. Just substitute veg stock for chicken & don't add any chicken, it doesn't lose anything without them.
11. Feeds the two of us for dinner if this is all we have otherwise with other things, it will feed 4.