Stir Fried Noodles Recipe, Chow Mein, How to Cook Stir Fried Noodles

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Chow Mein (Fried Noodles)

Chinese name: 炒面 (chǎo miàn)
Characteristic: Pork Chow Mein is a delicious and healthy dish, quick and easy to make.

Pork Chow Mein can be cooked using different kinds of noodles including wide noodles, thin noodles, noodle pieces and a variety of vegetables like carrots, onion, cabbage, green pepper, garlic sprouts or stems, mushrooms, etc. Chinese people usually add plenty of salt and soy sauce for extra flavor.

Ingredients:
250 g noodles
100 g loin pork
200 g garlic stem (cabbage or green beans)
3 or 4 small green peppers
1 carrot
1 onion

Seasonings:
4 teaspoons chopped ginger
4 teaspoons chopped green onion
2 teaspoons chili powder (more or less to taste)
2 teaspoons salt
3/2 teaspoons chicken stock (bouillon) or MSG (monosodium glutamate)
3 or 4 tablespoons cooking oil
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1/3 tablespoon tomato ketchup
1 teaspoon cooking wine

Preparation:
A. Clean the loin pork. Cut into thick slices that are cut into thin strips. Put into a dish.
B. Wash the green peppers. Cut into slices and put into a dish.
C. Peel and clean the onion. Chop into thin slices and put into a dish.
D. Snip the peduncles of the garlic stems. Cut it into 2-3 cm long sections. Put into a dish after washed.
E. Wash and peel carrot. Cut into thin stripes. Put into a dish.

Methods:

Step 1: Coat the loin pork by adding in cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, chicken bouillon or monosodium glutamate. Stir well it with chopsticks until you feel it is a bit sticky.

Step 2: Noodles are best cooked in a steamer. Fill the steamer pot 1/4 full of water. Grease the steamer basket with a thin layer of oil to prevent the noodles from sticking. Place the steamer basket in the pot, add noodles, cover and steam for 3-5 minutes. Take the noodles out and put into a bowl, add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil and stir it well with chopsticks. Return noodles to steamer and stream for another 3-5 minutes. Place in a bowl.

Step 3: Place a wok over high heat until hot. Add 2 tablespoons oil, swirling to coat sides. Add the coated loin pork strips and stir-fry until the meat turns pale yellow in color. Add the chili powder, chopped ginger and chopped green onion. Stir-fry for 10 seconds. Add all of the vegetables and fry, stirring for 2 minutes.

Step 4: Add 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of chicken bouillon and stir-fry for 10 seconds. Finally, add in the steamed noodles and the tomato ketchup, and stir-fry it for another minute.

Turn off the heat. Remove Stir Fried Noodles is cooked. Serve it onto a plate.

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