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My mundane Hokkien Noodles recipe. A large sauce. Strips of chicken. Lots of vegetables. 6 infinitesimal cook. Dinner successful 20 minutes flat!
Hokkien noodles
I cognize that I’ve repeatedly bleated astir however you tin propulsion “any vegetables you want!” into stir fried noodles. But if velocity is of the essence, and you privation a bully magnitude of vegetables successful your dinner, you bash really request to deliberation astir what vegetables are speedy to chop, speedy to cook, won’t marque your disturbance fry watery, and you cognize you tin get astatine immoderate market store.
No pre-cooking required (like broccoli). Doesn’t instrumentality 5 minutes to soften (like mushrooms). And not 1 of those vegetables you can’t ever find (like Asian greens).
Scratch each that. Today is astir convenience, speed, yet undeniable deliciousness that everybody loves.
Introducing – my mundane Hokkien Noodles!
Ingredients for Hokkien Noodles with chicken
Here’s what you request to marque these hokkien noodles. There’s capable macromolecule and vegetables successful this to beryllium a implicit meal. Gotta emotion a one-pan dinner!
HOKKIEN NOODLES
Hokkien noodles are mean thickness yellowish noodles made from wheat. Get them from the fridge if you can, alternatively than vac-packed varieties from the aisle. Better texture, amended flavour, and little inclination to interruption easy erstwhile tossed successful the pan.
Other noodle options – This look tin beryllium made with beauteous overmuch immoderate benignant of noodles – thin, flat, thicker, white, atom noodles, ovum noodles. Or adjacent pasta. There, I said it! Hand connected heart, erstwhile tossed with the sauce, flavour-wise they are precise akin though actually, noodles bash person a chewier texture than pasta. 🙂
Dried noodles (like ramen, dried ovum noodles, atom noodles, vermicelli noodles) tin besides beryllium utilized but you request to usage little than the value specified successful the look due to the fact that they grow a batch much successful measurement erstwhile cooked. See the look notes for directions.
The hokkien noodle sauce
You can’t conscionable usage soy and sweetener for a disturbance fry sauce. It’s excessively bland! In today’s recipe, oyster condiment is our shortcut constituent here. It adds extent of flavour, interaction of sweetness arsenic good arsenic thickening the condiment truthful we don’t adjacent request to usage cornflour/cornstarch similar you typically request to.
Dark and airy soy sauce – We’re utilizing a operation of some successful today’s condiment due to the fact that unneurotic they present truly large flavour and colour. Dark soy condiment has a much aggravated flavour and stains the noodles and chickenhearted a beauteous mahogany colour you tin spot successful the photos. The airy soy condiment adds other brackish without excessively overmuch colour and the soy flavour is milder. If we lone utilized acheronian soy sauce, the aggravated flavour would overwhelm the crockery arsenic good arsenic it an astir achromatic colour!
See look notes for however to power each of these soy sauces out, and much connected antithetic soy sauces here.
Oyster sauce – Punches precocious supra its value erstwhile it comes to adding complexity, flavour and umami each astatine erstwhile to immoderate crockery you adhd a fewer dashes of the worldly to. It’s a staple condiment successful Chinese and South-east Asian cooking made from oyster extract that is sweet, salty, heavy and pungent. However it doesn’t tasty oyster-y oregon fishy astatine each erstwhile cooked. See look notes for substitutes.
Mirin – This is simply a saccharine Japanese cooking vino that is the different shortcut constituent that brings flavour to this dish. Typically successful Chinese recipes you’d spot Chinese cooking wine utilized with a interaction of sweetener added erstwhile needed. But today, I’m taking a shortcut by utilizing mirin which already has sweetener successful it. One little constituent needed! See look notes for substitutions, including non-alcoholic options.
Sesame oil – Toasted (ie brown-hued) arsenic opposed to un-toasted (yellow-hued, with little sesame flavour). Here successful Australia, toasted sesame lipid is the norm. It’s really hard to find un-toasted. Note the sesame lipid is added to the condiment and not utilized for arsenic frying fat, due to the fact that it loses flavour the longer it’s cooked.
White capsicum (or black) – Asian cooking typically uses achromatic alternatively than achromatic pepper. One of the reasons is truthful you don’t get unsightly achromatic specks successful clear, airy brownish disturbance fry sauces that are fashionable successful Asian cooking. The flavour is besides a small much citrusy than achromatic capsicum which is much earthy. We lone usage a tiny magnitude truthful you tin substitute achromatic capsicum successful a pinch.
Quick cooking vegetables and chicken
Quick chop vegetables selection. Ease is the cardinal successful today’s recipe!
Boneless chickenhearted thighs – I’m utilizing thighs due to the fact that they enactment juicy erstwhile fried up successful disturbance fries without having to tenderise oregon marinate for excessively long. You tin power retired for chickenhearted bosom – due to the fact that these noodles navigator successful 6 minutes flat, it won’t overcook and adust out. But, chickenhearted thigh is juicier! 🙂 You tin besides substitute with much vegetables.
Green bulb – Onion is simply a staple successful disturbance fries due to the fact that it adds caller flavour and frying up the bulb astatine the opening flavours the oil. Green bulb makes a bully shortcut option, without the request to peel and slice! Just chop into 5cm / 2″ batons. Substitute with regular bulb chopped into bladed wedges, but navigator it earlier the chicken.
Note: As the softer acheronian greenish portion cooks successful virtually a minute, we adhd that successful astatine the extremity whereas the firmer white/pale greenish portion (the onion-y flavoured part) is disturbance fried astatine the opening due to the fact that it takes longer to navigator and besides flavours the oil.
Cabbage – One of my favourite ways to adhd a stack of veg into a meal, fast! It’s truthful speedy to chop up a ample mound and it softens successful conscionable a fewer minutes successful the pan. Plus, by cutting it into strips, it flops, clings and mingles nicely with the noodles. Substitute with babe spinach oregon tuscan kale (also chopped into strips) oregon a mates of handfuls of legume sprouts.
Capsicum/bell pepper – I similar the flavour capsicum brings to disturbance fries arsenic good arsenic a small splash of colour. And again, casual to chop – if you cognize the instrumentality to debar getting small seeds flying everywhere! You’ll spot maine demo it successful the video. 🙂
Substitute with carrot oregon zucchini chopped into batons.
Garlic – Finely minced with a weapon is champion due to the fact that it disperses passim the noodles and fries up better. However, successful this recipe, you tin get distant with utilizing a ail press. But don’t speech to maine astir jarred garlic! (Sour. Wet. Barely resembles garlic!).
Other rootlike options – As with virtually each disturbance fries, consciousness escaped to substitute the vegetables with what you’ve got. Use 5 cups successful total. Just adhd the longer cooking ones earlier and the speedy cooking vegetables towards the end.
How to marque Hokkien Noodles with Chicken
The condiment successful today’s look is doing treble work arsenic the condiment for the noodles and marinade for the chickenhearted (just 10 minutes marinating time). So get the condiment and chickenhearted done first, past determination onto preparing the remainder of the recipe.
1. Noodle condiment & marinated chicken
Mix the condiment ingredients successful a bowl.
Marinate chicken – Measure retired 1 1/2 tablespoons of condiment and flip with the chicken. Set speech for 10 minutes portion you hole the different ingredients and soak the noodles. It lone needs a abbreviated clip due to the fact that the chickenhearted pieces are truthful bladed and the condiment flavour is rather intense.
2. Prepare noodles
Prepare noodles per the packet directions. Usually they volition accidental to soak for a fewer minutes successful a ample vessel of boiling water, specified arsenic the 1 I’m using. Some brands telephone to beryllium boiled for a mates of minutes. Then drain successful a colander.
Rinse (💡pro tip!) – Whatever the method, rinse the noodles nether the pat h2o concisely to region excess starch which tin marque the aboveground of the noodles unpleasantly gummy erstwhile cooked with the sauce. It’s not a occupation that happens with each brands of noodles and it depends however you hole it, but it’s conscionable bully signifier to bash it truthful you ne'er acquisition this problem.
Rinsing besides prevents the noodles from hardening into a artifact arsenic they beryllium successful the colander earlier tossing into the pan.
3. Noodle condiment & marinated chicken
Cook chicken – In a ample non-stick cookware (mine is 30cm/12″) oregon precise ample wok*, vigor the lipid implicit precocious vigor until precise hot. Then adhd the chickenhearted and navigator 1 minute. Add the ail and achromatic portion of the greenish bulb stems and navigator for different 1 infinitesimal until the aboveground of the chickenhearted is sealed (but inactive a spot earthy inside).
Vegetables – Add the capsicum and cabbage, past flip for 2 minutes oregon until the cabbage is mostly wilted. By this time, the chickenhearted should beryllium cooked through. If not, support going arsenic the chickenhearted won’t navigator overmuch much successful the adjacent steps.
* This is rather a large batch look to effort to marque successful a wok. You tally the hazard of the chickenhearted and vegetables getting watery due to the fact that of the smaller aboveground country successful interaction with heat, unless you usage a precise ample 1 with a precise ample burner. It is safer to usage a precise ample pan.
Noodles and sauce – Add the greenish portion of the greenish onions, noodles past sauce. Toss for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes oregon until the condiment stains the noodles a beauteous brownish colour. Using 2 woody spoons volition marque your beingness easier present (tongs interruption the noodles).
Finished noodles – Then that’s it! Ready to eat. So fast. How bully is that!
Between transient surviving situations*, changes wrong my team, an progressively precocious attraction canine good into his elder years* and a workload that ne'er seems to ease, I’ve been making these noodles regularly successful caller months. It’s not conscionable the speed, but besides due to the fact that cabbage, greenish bulb and immoderate benignant of noodles are pantry staples successful my world. The capsicum is easy substituted with different rootlike (carrot, zucchini etc). Chicken is optional (I often usage much vegetables). And the condiment is made with a premix of my implicit bare minimum Asian condiment essentials.
You can’t bushed Hokkien Noodles freshly made, steaming, shiny and slippery. But honestly, they are inactive truly large for one, two, 3 days afterwards with conscionable a speedy microwave reheat, and they frost good too.
I anticipation you bask them! – Nagi x
* Not complaining astir either of these! I cognize I’m fortunate to person a extortion implicit my head, afloat stop. As for the other? My top company asset. 🐶❤️
Watch however to marque it
Hokkien noodles with chicken
Ingredients
- 500g/ 1 lb hokkien noodles , (fridge best) (Note 1)
- 350g/ 12 oz chicken thighs (boneless, skinless), chopped into batch of bladed 0.5 x 3cm / 0.2 x 1.2" pieces (Note 2)
- 2 tbsp canola oil (or vegetable, cottonseed, peanut oil)
- 2 garlic cloves , finely minced
- 8 green bulb stems , chopped into 5cm / 2″ lengths, achromatic portion separated from greenish portion (Note 3)
- 1 red capsicum (bell peppers) , chopped into bladed 0.5cm / 0.2″ strips
- 3 heaped cups green cabbage , chopped into bladed 1 x 5cm / 0.5 x 2" strips
Sauce:
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce (Note 4)
- 1 1/2 tbsp dark soy sauce (Note 4)
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce (Note 5)
- 1 tbsp Mirin oregon Chinese cooking wine (Note 6)
- 1 tbsp sesame oil , toasted (Note 7)
- 1/8 tsp white pepper (sub achromatic pepper)
Optional garnishes
- White sesame seeds
- Finely sliced greenish onion
Instructions
Abbreviated recipe:
- Marinate chickenhearted with 1 1/2 tbsp Sauce. Cook chickenhearted 1 min, adhd ail and achromatic portion of greenish onion, navigator 1 min. Add capsicum & cabbage, navigator 2 min. Add greenish portion of greenish onion, noodles, sauce, flip 2 min. Serve!
Full recipe:
- Sauce – Mix the condiment successful a tiny bowl.
- Briefly marinate chicken – Toss the chickenhearted with 1 1/2 tbsp of the Sauce. Marinate for 10 minutes portion you hole the noodles and vegetables.
- Rinse noodles – Prepare the noodles per the packet directions (soak successful boiling h2o oregon concisely boil). Drain successful a colander past rinse concisely nether pat h2o (Note 8)
- Sear chicken – Heat the lipid successful a ample non-stick cookware implicit precocious vigor until precise blistery (mine is 30cm/12", Note 9 re: wok). Add the chickenhearted and flip for 1 minute. Add the ail and achromatic portion of the greenish onion, past flip for different 1 infinitesimal oregon until the aboveground of the chickenhearted is sealed (but inactive a spot earthy inside)
- Cook veg & noodles – Add the capsicum and cabbage. Toss for 2 minutes until the cabbage is mostly wilted. Add the greenish portion of the greenish onions, noodles and sauce. Toss for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes until the noodles are stained a beauteous mahogany colour.
- Serve immediately, sprinkled with sesame seeds and greenish bulb if desired!
Notes
- Noodles – See below
- Chicken – 2 heaped cups other vegetables
- Green bulb – Finely sliced regular onion, navigator earlier adding the chicken.
- Cabbage – Sliced Tuscan kale, Chinese cabbage (wombok), babe spinach, legume sprouts
- Capsicum – Carrot oregon zucchini batons, bladed asparagus, broccolini chopped into bladed batons, snowfall peas chopped connected diagonal.
1. Noodles – Hokkien noodles from the fridge are amended than the vac battalion ones from the aisle. Use the aforesaid magnitude of different caller noodles from the fridge, oregon 350g / 12oz immoderate dried noodles oregon 250g/8oz dried vermicelli. 2. Chicken – Thigh is champion arsenic it stays juicier, however, bosom oregon tenderloin tin beryllium utilized too. Lean pork would besides beryllium great. For beef, usage immoderate steak but I urge velveting it truthful it stays tender and juicy (thin strips of beef volition overcook successful little than 2 minutes). 3. Green bulb stems – The firmer white/pale greenish portion takes longer to navigator (like onions) truthful adhd it first, whereas the brushed acheronian greenish portion wilts rapidly truthful adhd it astatine the end. 4. Soy sauce – You tin substitute the airy soy with each intent soy, and acheronian soy with much airy soy (but noodles won’t stain dark). Don’t substitute the airy soy with much acheronian soy (too intense, volition overpower dish). More connected antithetic soy sauces here. 5. Oyster sauce – Adds sweetness, extent of flavour and thickens sauce. Vegetarian oyster condiment tin beryllium used, oregon hoisin condiment (adds beauteous hint of 5 spice). 6. Mirin adds extent of flavour and interaction of saccharine into this different elemental sauce. Chinese cooking vino is an fantabulous sub, followed by cooking involvement oregon adust sherry. Non alcoholic – adhd 1/3 cupful chickenhearted banal into the condiment and flip for other infinitesimal oregon two. 7. Toasted sesame oil is brownish (default successful Australia). Untoasted is yellowish and doesn’t sensation arsenic sesame-y. 8. Rinsing noodles removes excess starch truthful the noodles are slippery erstwhile tossed with sauce. If you don’t rinse, sometimes the aboveground is gummy. Also prevents from sticking unneurotic successful colander portion waiting to beryllium used. 9. Wok v cookware – This is rather a large batch look to effort to marque successful a wok. You tally the hazard of the chickenhearted and vegetables getting watery due to the fact that of the smaller aboveground country successful interaction with heat, unless you usage a precise ample 1 with a precise ample burner. It is safer to usage a precise ample pan. Leftovers volition support for 3 days successful the fridge, I conscionable reheat successful the microwave. It really freezes beauteous good excessively (not atom noodles though, they person a inclination to interruption erstwhile frozen). Nutrition per serving.
Nutrition
My noodle life
I’m a noodle-crazed lady, and I marque nary apologies for it!
Life of Dozer
Who present is amazed that I cook for Dozer’s vet? 😂
Brown food oatmeal choc spot cookiesTook him successful for cheque ups and attraction of on-going seniors problems, including his funky joints and aboriginal motion of property related spinal issues.
Here helium is astatine the magic canine doctor, Neil Barnsley of Holistic Animal Therapies. It takes implicit an hr to thrust determination but I’ve been taking Dozer for the past 8 years – due to the fact that he’s that good, and I person truthful overmuch religion and spot successful him. He treats Dozer for muscle, bony and associated related issues, of which determination person been galore implicit the years due to the fact that helium was specified an progressive canine successful his youth!
With the magic canine doctor, Neil Barnsley of Animal Holistic Therapies.And present helium is astatine our section vet, Gladesville Vetinary Hospital, wherever I took him successful for vaccinations and a cheque up. Got the each wide – yay!
Lordy, this canine is getting precocious attraction successful his elder years.
Lucky I kinda emotion him.
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