Beef or Chicken Chow Mein
Beef or Chicken Chow Mein

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, beef or chicken chow mein. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Beef or Chicken Chow Mein is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Beef or Chicken Chow Mein is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

In a large bowl, combine the first four ingredients. In a large skillet or wok, stir-fry beef in oil until no longer pink; remove and keep warm. In essence, beef chow mein is a type of stir-fry. In fact, "chow mein" in Chinese translates into "stir-fried" and "noodles", respectively.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have beef or chicken chow mein using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Beef or Chicken Chow Mein:
  1. Make ready 600 grams chicken breasts or beef cut into slices
  2. Take 300 grams medium egg noodles
  3. Prepare 4 tsp chinese 5 spice powder
  4. Make ready 2 tsp chilli powder ( optional)
  5. Get 1 dash toasted sesame oil
  6. Prepare 1 dash groundnut oil
  7. Take 1 dash dark soy sauce
  8. Take 1 dash light soy sauce
  9. Prepare 1 pinch ground black pepper
  10. Get 1 dozen chestnut mushrooms
  11. Make ready 1 bunch spring onions
  12. Take 2 tbsp cornflour
  13. Make ready 2 red pepper
  14. Make ready 400 grams bean sprouts
  15. Prepare 1 pinch salt

The ingredients are stir-fried with cooking oil, garlic and seasonings of soy sauce and oyster sauce in a wok. Chow mein is a Chinese dish that is mainly made from egg noodles combined with sautéed meat or chicken, vegetables, and a soy-based sauce. The noodles, traditionally referred to as chow mein noodles, are short and often lightly fried to impart a crispy texture to the dish. Chow mein, which translates as 'crispy noodles' is mostly associated with greasy Chinese takeaways, but when freshly made at home it makes for a quick, easy and tasty meal.

Instructions to make Beef or Chicken Chow Mein:
  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

The noodles, traditionally referred to as chow mein noodles, are short and often lightly fried to impart a crispy texture to the dish. Chow mein, which translates as 'crispy noodles' is mostly associated with greasy Chinese takeaways, but when freshly made at home it makes for a quick, easy and tasty meal. There is much speculation as to the exact origins of the dish, with all regions of China seeming to have a claim, but given its simplicity and interchangeable ingredients. Beef chow mein is a little bit harder to cook than a normal chow mein, but that's only due to the way you have to cook it, and there are a few more preparation steps to take to marinate the beef. As we explain in our video most Chinese Takeways will make a large batch of beef and freeze it.

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