Beef or Chicken Chow Mein

How to Cook Recipes Beef or Chicken Chow Mein using 15 ingredients and 5 steps

Beef or Chicken Chow Mein - Serve with chow mein noodles or rice. Meat: You can use any boneless meat cut thin like pork, beef, or chicken thighs instead of chicken breasts. For a filling vegetarian option use mushrooms, baked tofu or tempeh. Noodles: You can use Lo Mein noodles if you like the chewier, thicker egg noodles better. Ramen and yakisoba noodles, without the seasoning packets, are a good substitute for these noodles.

Restaurants will serve a combination chow mein or a single type.

Chicken and beef are often softened with a little bicarbonate of soda.

You can have Beef or Chicken Chow Mein using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients make Beef or Chicken Chow Mein

1. Prepare 600 grams chicken breasts or beef cut into slices.
2. It's 300 grams medium egg noodles.
3. It's 4 tsp chinese 5 spice powder.
4. You need 2 tsp chilli powder ( optional).
5. It's 1 dash toasted sesame oil.
6. Prepare 1 dash groundnut oil.
7. You need 1 dash dark soy sauce.
8. Prepare 1 dash light soy sauce.
9. You need 1 pinch ground black pepper.
10. It's 1 dozen chestnut mushrooms.
11. It's 1 bunch spring onions.
12. It's 2 tbsp cornflour.
13. You need 2 red pepper.
14. It's 400 grams bean sprouts.
15. Prepare 1 pinch salt.

Beef or Chicken Chow Mein instructions

1. Rinse and chop mushrooms into quarters, chop spring onions lengthways and chop red pepper into slices. Rinse beansprouts and leave aside with spring onion, keep chopped mushrooms and pepper seperate..
2. In a large mixing bowl add sliced beef or chicken and season with five spice powder and chilli powder, add dash of dark soy sauce and then add cornflour and mix well. Leave to marinate until ready to fry..
3. Boil medium egg noodles in a pan of boiling waters for about 3 minutes. When cooked drain and rinse with cold water. Add a dash of toasted sesame oil and work through the noodles ensuring they don't stick together..
4. Heat a large wok on hob until smoking then add dash of groundnut oil and fry chicken or beef for about 5 mins constantly stirring. Add the peppers and mushrooms fry for a further 2 minutes then add beansprouts and spring onions and fry for a further 1 minute constantly stirring and add the noodles and fry again for 1 minute. add more toasted sesame oil where needed to fry with. stir with a pinch of salt and black pepper adding more depending on taste..
5. plate up and serve with prawn crackers.

Beef or Chicken Chow Mein - The chow means "stir fry" and mein means noodles. This dish can vary a bit by region and can be served with crispy noodles or soft noodles. This recipe is a soft noodle dish. You can easily modify this chow mein recipe by adding chicken, pork, beef or shrimp and mixing up the vegetables however you like! Chow Mein Noodles What Is Chow Mein. Chow Mein is a Chinese dish of stir fried noodles with vegetables and sometimes shredded meat like chicken, beef, pork or seafood. The words chow mein really just mean "stir fried noodles". Thank you and good luck