2014 Cooking Club Week 17: Chicken Chow Mein

Howdy folks. So this is my take on Chow Mein. Hope yizzer like it.

Ingredients:
3 Garlic Cloves
Good Chunk Fresh Root Ginger
1 Red Chilli
2TBSP Soy Sauce
2TBSP Tomato Puree
2/3 Chicken Breasts
Straight 2 Wok Noodles (amount depends on people serving)
1/2 Carrots
Handful Mangetout
Few Mushrooms
1 TBSP Vegetable Oil (I used Sunflower tonight cos I forgot to buy more Veg Oil!)
Couple Handfuls Beansprouts
3 Spring Onions (I halved and chopped some and just chopped the rest)
1TBSP Oyster Sauce

Pic: Ingredients



The lidl beer is just to help the work along!!!

Method:
Deseed and chop the chilli and throw into a bowl. Peel and grate the ginger and add to the same bowl. Peel and crush the garlic (I used a garlic press) and throw into the bowl. Add the tomato puree and soy sauce and mix. Then chop the chicken in thick strips, stir into the sauce and leave to marinade.

Pic: Chicken marinating:


Obviously you'll be washing your hands here cos of the chicken gick, but wash thoroughly or you'll get chilli genitals later and that is NOT a good thing !!!!

Chop the carrots into teeny sticks. Cut your shrooms into an acceptable size. Cut your spring onions diagonally (like the local Chinese does!).

Boil a pan of water and throw the carrots and mangetout into it for four mins to boil.

Put the veg oil into a wok and heat. Throw the chicken and marinade in and cook for five mins.

Pic: Chicken cooking and Carrot and Mangetout boiling:


Ignore the horrid looking cooker. Been a bit unwell lately and didn't get it cleaned pre pics. Mind it shows tis well used!!! Also the bugger is old and on it's last legs!

Drain the Carrot/Mangetout. Throw them, the shrooms, spring onions, beansprouts and noodles into the wok and stir in. Cook for a couple min at most. You are just heating through the veg and noodles.

Pic: Veg and Noodles stirred in:


Mix the oyster sauce with a couple tablespoons of water and mix into the dish at the last minute. Then dish up and enjoy.

Pic: Dished up x2:





Couple notes: You can change up the veg if you want. The original recipe I saw had broccoli in it and I hated it in there.
Use more noodles if cooking for more folk (I had two peeps). Also use more veggies aswell.


Lads I hope you enjoy. Any feedback lemme know.