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Chicken chow mein
Also known as 炒面 · chow mein · chicken chowmein · chicken chow mien
Noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables until the edges catch, glossed with soy. The char is the flavour.
Typical serving
540 kcal
usually 420–690 kcal
 Protein | 26 g |
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 Carbs | 64 g |
 Fat | 20 g |
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Before you start
- a wok or your widest pan, and everything chopped before it is lit
Ingredients
Serves 2 · dimmer marks are storecupboard
- 150gegg noodles
- 250gchicken breast
- 1½ tbspoil
- 150gbeansprouts
- 150gcabbage
- 1carrot
- 3spring onions
- 1 thumbgarlic and ginger
- 2 tbspsoy sauce
- 1 tbspoyster sauce
- 2 tspcornflour
- 1 tspsesame oil
Method
6 steps
chop · 12mChicken sliced thin across the grain, cabbage shredded, carrot into matchsticks, garlic and ginger minced, spring onions cut long. Sauce measured into a cup. Nothing is lit until all of this is done and within reach.
fold · 4mChicken turned through the cornflour with a spoonful of the soy and left while everything else is prepped — the starch is what keeps thin slices from drying out over that heat.
boil · 7mNoodles cooked a minute short of the packet, then rinsed under the cold tap and drained hard. Shake the colander until they genuinely stop dripping.
fry · 6mChicken into a screaming pan in one layer, left to take colour, then tossed until it is cooked right through with no pink left, and lifted out.
- fry · 6m
Garlic and ginger for ten seconds, cabbage and carrot for a minute, then the noodles and sauce, everything tossed rather than stirred so it lifts clear of the base and meets the heat.
finish · 2mChicken back in, beansprouts and spring onion through at the very last second so they are still raw and squeaky, sesame oil off the heat.
Worth knowing
Chow mein simply means “fried noodles” — the crisp-versus-soft argument is really Hong Kong and America disagreeing about one word.
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