Perfect Chow Mein!

[Bender]

I have perfected my own chow mein recipie!

It's really simple and can be made in 20 mins. This is so good it tastes better than those I get down at my local take-away. Here is the recipie if you wish to try it for yourself ...


To make the perfect chow mein you will need:

Onion (one average size onion per portion)
Noodles (1 block per portion)
Chicken (1 breast per portion)
Five spice
Dark soy sauce
Olive oil for frying


First, thinly slice the chicken and fry in a wok. When it starts to colour add the spice and a dash of soy sauce and fry for a minute longer.

Put the cooked chicken to one side in a bowl and wipe clean the wok.

Boil the noodles in slightly salted water.

Cook the sliced onions seperately in the wok. When cooked turn off the heat and add the chicken.

Drain the noodles when cooked and return them to the pan. Pour plenty of soy sauce onto the cooked noodles, stir and leave for a minute for them to soak up the flavour.

Return the heat to the wok then add and mix in the noodles.

Serve with prawn crackers.


Important: It's imperative that you add the soy sauce to the noodles themselves, not after you have mixed all the ingredients together. Otherwise the soy sauce will diffuse the flavour of the onions and the spice, and plus you wont get the two tone colour of the onion white against the dark noodles.


Variations on this dish include using beef instead of chicken; adding beansprouts and mushrooms to make it more of a stir-fry dish; or even adding another sauce to the noodles like sweet n sour or black bean.


Let me know if you try it or any variations of your own

 

[EDouble]

OH HELL YEAH I APPRECIATE IT
CANT BELIEVE IMOUT OF FUCKIN OLIVE OIL LMAO :thumb:

 

[S. Fourteen]

Olive oil is really good for dry hands, especially in the kitchen. Since most lotions have added scents to make it more consumer friendly - you can't use it in the kitchen in fear of passing along the strawberry kiwi cucumber watermelon scent on to your chicken chow mein.

Good shit Yeshua

 

[Bender]

Olive oil infused with garlic I think would be great. Not on hands though. I put olive oil down but really you can use any type of oil - vegetable, sunflower etc. I just felt olive oil is more preferable and of a higher quality.

Now I'm working on my fried rice.

 

[S. Fourteen]

^ That calls for sesame oil. Sesame oil is not so good on hands, because it leaves your hands smelling like peanuts.

Please don't use Minute Rice

 

[Bender]

I don't want to know what you have been doing with oil on your hands, if it, and I imagine it hasn't, has got nothing to do with cooking. This aint a beauty parlour thread lol


I need to get the right rice. I never heard of minute rice before. I am looking into using short grain rice. I hope that's not the same thing.

 

[S. Fourteen]

You know how it goes.. all of those repeated sanitization of hands will leave sensitive skin cracking. Eczema is a pain in the butt, especially during winter.

Minute Rice is a product of Kraft Foods - that should tell you something