Veggie Packed Chow Mein

Steps Cook Recipes Veggie Packed Chow Mein using 18 ingredients and 10 steps

Veggie Packed Chow Mein - Great recipe for Veggie Packed Chow Mein. A healthy-ish spin on the chow mein we all love from asian restaurants. Some of the noodles are just replaced with ALL the vegetables. This is best prepared in a wok, but if you cook with a electric stove a large sautee pan with high sides will do. Heat the sesame (or vegetable) oil in a wok or skillet over medium-high heat.

Cornstarch: just a little for thickening; Soy sauce: avoid dark or sweet soy sauce, use regular or lite ; Vegetarian oyster sauce: this gives an amazing depth of flavor (don't worry it doesn't make the dish taste like oysters).

Hoisin can be used in a pinch, but the flavor will be different.

You can cook Veggie Packed Chow Mein using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients make Veggie Packed Chow Mein

1. You need 1 medium carrot, fine julliene or shredded, about 100 g.
2. Prepare 5 garlic cloves, finely mincdd.
3. Prepare 1 red pepper, fine julienne.
4. Prepare 2 inch piece of ginger, finely minced, about 1 tbsp.
5. You need 6 scallion stalks chopped, separate whites and greens.
6. It's 1/4 cup bean sprouts.
7. It's 1 package asian egg noodles.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp miso paste.
9. Prepare 4 tbsp soy sauce.
10. You need 2 tsp sesame oil.
11. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt.
12. It's 1/4 tsp pepper.
13. Prepare 1 \4 tsp chinese five spice.
14. Prepare 1/4 tsp chili oil.
15. It's 1/2 tsp sriracha.
16. It's 1/2 tsp oyster sauce.
17. Prepare 2 dashes fish sauce.
18. Prepare 1/2 tbsp miso paste.

Veggie Packed Chow Mein step by step

1. The first, most important step is to prepare all your veggies. Then separate them. We'll be cooking cooking in batches and having them all ready to go or your "mis en place" if you want to get fancy. We'll organize them by similar cook times. Group the red pepper and carrots, the garlic and ginger, scallion whites and snow peas, 1/2 the scallion greens and bean sprouts..
2. Combine soy sauce, sesame oil, chili oil, oyster sauce, fish sauce, salt, pepper, chinese five spice, sriracha and miso paste..
3. Heat the wok over high heat. Add a tbsp of oil and heat until smoking. While waiting, grab a large bowl to transfer your ingredients to as they cook.
4. Add carrots and peppers. Contnuously toss the veggies coating them with oil and preventing burning. Cook until the peppers are fragarant and the carrots are flexible like noodles. Transfer to you large bowl..
5. Now for the snap peas and scallion whites. Give the pan about a minute to heat up where the oil is smoking again. Throw them in and toss to coat. Don't toss these around like the carrots and peppers. Try to spread them out as much as you can to get the most direct veggie to pan contact. Leave them for 30 seconds, then toss them around and repeat. Do this 4 or five times or until you're satisfied with the browning..
6. Add garlic and ginger, cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Then add scallion greens and bean sprouts, cooks for 60 second or until greens soften.
7. Mix them all together. Add oil to pan allow to heat up and grab your noodles and 2 cups of water..
8. Add noodles and a 1/4 cup of water, as the water evaporates continue to add it by the quarter cup. You can continue to toss for about 30 seconds in between each time you add water. After the first 1/4 cup dries up add a tsp of sesame oil and toss to coat to prevent sticking..
9. Make a well in the middle of the wok and put your vegetables in the middle. Pour souce over your mix and then mix them all together. Cook for about 60 seconds, then remove from heat..
10. The whole stir fry should only take about ten minutes. If you're going to cook a stir fry to accompany your noodles nows the time..

Veggie Packed Chow Mein - Adding a monster amount of cabbage to this recipe is a sneaky deaky trick, because it's not only delicious, but it blends right into the noodles, meaning you are getting more nutritional bang for your noodle buck. This is one chow mein recipe that is GOOD for you. This vegetarian/vegan version of chow mein is very close to the traditional version, but I have created a sauce without oyster sauce in it - and obviously substituted the meat with tofu. This recipe contains directions to make this from scratch as well as the directions for making this using my Real Chinese All Purpose Stir Fry Sauce. Chow mein is a major guilty pleasure in my house, but we don't often indulge because ordering takeout always makes me feel sluggish. I am so thrilled I found your recipe because it is packed with so many healthy ingredients without all of the added nonsense that comes with takeout. Ingredients Lo mein, brocolli, onion, bamboo shoots, portabella mushrooms, green beans, bean sprouts. Thank you and good luck