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This household size noodle disturbance fry is simply a implicit repast with macromolecule and plentifulness of veg, made from scratch successful conscionable 15 minutes – and it’s earnestly tasty. I cognize determination are faster noodle recipes retired there…….but bash they tick all those boxes??
The fastest noodle disturbance fry I know
I’ve got a 12-minute chilli-garlic noodle look successful my 2nd cookbook Tonight, but it’s 100% carbs, spot generous connected the lipid and zero veg (apparently ail doesn’t count). Hits precocious connected the delicious scale, but not the astir balanced look I know!
That’s wherefore today’s look is simply a spot of a gem. It’s quick, acknowledgment to my latest shortcut 2-ingredient disturbance fry condiment (fish condiment + kecap manis for the win!) and enactment of fast-chop veg (green bulb and cabbage), but besides a good rounded repast implicit with chickenhearted and a bully magnitude of vegetables.
Some days, the thought of peeling and dicing onions, and sweeping up a gazillion tiny greenish broccoli confetti pieces each implicit the room conscionable breaks maine – I request elemental chop things! 😅
The operation of food condiment and kecap manis makes an fantabulous noodle disturbance fry sauce!
Ingredients successful this speedy noodle disturbance fry
Here’s what you request to marque this.
1. TWO INGREDIENT STIR FRY NOODLE SAUCE
Fish condiment and kecap manis are the ingredients present that marque meal imaginable truthful fast. 🙂 Fish condiment for brackish and flavour that’s mode much absorbing than soy sauce, portion syrupy kecap manis adds sweetness, caramel-y soy flavour and shine, arsenic good arsenic acting arsenic a thickener. (Don’t worry, it’s astatine your section market store!).
Fish sauce – These days, it’s reasonably good known that this adds a stack of extent of flavour into thing it’s utilized for! Don’t fearfulness fishy flavour, it gets cooked retired arsenic the noodles are tossed with abundance.
Kecap manis (aka saccharine soy) – a thick, saccharine Indonesian soy condiment with a syrupy consistency and a rich, caramel-y soy flavour. Find it successful the Asian aisle of regular market stores, beauteous communal these days!
White capsicum – Not critical, but bully to adhd a pinch if you’ve got it. White capsicum is emblematic of Asian cooking implicit achromatic pepper, but consciousness escaped to usage achromatic if that’s what you’ve got.
I besides adhd a dollop of chilli crisp for a grown up touch, but this is wholly optional.
2. STIR FRY NOODLE INGREDIENTS
And here’s what I enactment into the disturbance fry. Green bulb implicit dicing regular onions, and cabbage due to the fact that it’s truthful accelerated to chop a immense mound!
Hokkien noodles – oregon different caller noodles from the fridge for disturbance frying, specified arsenic lo mein, Singapore noodles, Shanghai noodles. Just debar the bladed ones coated successful powder, they’re intended for soups. You’ll request 500g/1lb to service 4 people.
Fridge v dried vs vac packed noodles – Fresh fridge noodles are best, they’re closest to what you get astatine bully noodle shops with the signature chewy texture and slippery surface. Dried noodles enactment excessively and are my adjacent choice – usage astir 350g / 12oz (once cooked, this equates to 500g/1lb of fridge caller noodles). Shelf unchangeable vac packed noodles – usage 500g/1lb, but these are my slightest favourite. I find the texture of astir are not large – excessively mushy and gummy.
Chicken thighs – my penchant implicit chickenhearted breast, due to the fact that it’s a juicier, tastier cut. However, chickenhearted bosom works good too, and it won’t overcook with the abbreviated clip it’s connected the stove. You besides person the enactment to tenderise it, Chinese edifice benignant (“velveting”) – caput here for directions!)
Green cabbage – Lasts “forever”, inexpensive to buy, accelerated to chop and speedy to cook! Very deliberately chosen. (Bonus: Love the mode the strands mostly vanish into the tangle of noodles. You tin prevarication to the kids.😈)
Green bulb – Serves the aforesaid intent arsenic onion, without the effort of peeling, dicing and crying. Tell maine each the originative ways you’ve tried to lick the onion-tears issue! 🤿👓
How to marque the fastest noodle disturbance fry I know
As with each disturbance fries, person each the ingredients prepared and acceptable to flip into the pan. The navigator moves fast!
Sauce – Mix the kecap manis, food condiment and capsicum (if using) unneurotic until the syrupy kecap manis is dissolved.
Flavour chickenhearted – Use 1 tablespoonful to flip with the chicken. This volition adhd a small flavour to the outside. There’s nary request to permission it speech to marinade to flavour the wrong due to the fact that the strips are truthful small, there’s nary need, we conscionable privation to overgarment the surface.
Prepare noodles according to packet directions (usually a 1 infinitesimal boiling h2o soak) past springiness it a rinse nether pat h2o to region excess starch. This is important to guarantee the aboveground of the noodles don’t get gummy erstwhile tossed with the disturbance fry sauce. Also, beryllium definite to drain disconnected excess h2o good – springiness the colander a bully shingle and permission the noodles successful there!
Chicken first – Heat the lipid implicit precocious vigor until smoking past navigator the chickenhearted for 2 minutes until it’s mostly cooked. Then flip the ail and achromatic portion of the greenish bulb in, and navigator for 30 seconds until the chickenhearted is afloat cooked and the ail smells amazing.
Use a ample 30cm /12″ non instrumentality pan. Because of the measurement we’re cooking today, it won’t enactment good successful a wok. Everything volition conscionable stew alternatively of sear, go watery and dilute flavour!
Cook cabbage – Next, adhd the cabbage and navigator for 1 1/2 minutes until it starts to spell floppy.
Noodles and condiment – Then adhd the noodles and half the sauce. Toss for a infinitesimal until the condiment is absorbed and nary longer pooling successful the cookware (~ 45 seconds), past adhd the remaining sauce, tossing again until nary liquid remains (~ 1 minute). Add chilli crisp oregon chilli condiment towards the extremity (add and taste, adhd and taste) and lastly, conscionable flip the greenish portion of the greenish bulb done until it’s wilted – it takes virtually 20 seconds. Then, serve!
❓ Why adhd condiment successful 2 batches? Because it reduces faster than putting it each successful astatine once. On weaker burners, it tin instrumentality excessively agelong for the condiment to reduce, to the constituent wherever noodles commencement to interruption from excessive tossing. A occupation we ran into ourselves. Just safer to enactment the condiment successful 2 batches.
There you person it – my speediest, dinner-worthy noodle disturbance fry!
Or….. person I shared 1 conscionable arsenic accelerated before? Maybe I have. I’ve surely published my stock of noodle recipes!! Consider this your challenge: fto maine cognize successful the comments if I’ve already beaten this one. Rules – the look indispensable be:
nutritious capable for dinner
made from scratch
enough to service 4 people
In immoderate case, this is simply a large excuse to circular up everyone’s favourite speedy noodle recipes. – Nagi x
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The fastest noodle disturbance fry I cognize – from scratch!
Ingredients
- 400g/14oz chicken thighs , skinless boneless, thinly sliced 0.75cm/1/4" heavy (or breast)
- 500g / 1 lb hokkien noodles, lo mein, different noodles , from the fridge, prepared per packet, rinsed well, drained (Note 1)
- 1 tbsp peanut oil (or immoderate different neutral oil)
- 2 garlic cloves , finely minced
- 7 green onions , chopped into 5cm/2″ lengths, brushed acheronian greenish parts separated from the achromatic / airy greenish firmer parts
- 5 cups green cabbage , sliced ~1cm / 0.4″ heavy (Napa/Chinese cabbage besides works)
Sauce (just 2 ingredients!):
- 2 tbsp kecap mani (sweet soy) (Note 2)
- 1/4 cup fish sauce
- 1 pinch white pepper (sub achromatic pepper)
Optional grown up touch:
- 1 tbsp+ chilli crisp, chilli paste oregon sriracha (add > sensation > adhd > taste!) (Note 3)
Instructions
ABBREVIATED RECIPE:
- Toss chickenhearted with 1 tbsp sauce. In a ample 30cm/12" non-stick cookware implicit precocious heat, navigator chickenhearted first, adding ail and achromatic portion of greenish bulb towards the end. Cabbage 1 1/2 minutes, past noodles, condiment (add successful 2 batches) and chilli crisp. Wilt greenish onion, serve!
FULL RECIPE:
- Sauce – Mix the ingredients successful a tiny bowl.
- Toss the chicken with 1 tablespoonful of the condiment (no marinating clip needed).
Cooking:
- Cook chickenhearted – Heat the lipid successful a ample 30cm/12" non-stick cookware implicit precocious vigor until precise hot. Add the chickenhearted and navigator for 2 minutes. Add the ail and achromatic portion of the greenish onion, navigator for different 30 seconds until chickenhearted is conscionable cooked.
- Cabbage – Add the cabbage, flip for 1 1/2 minutes oregon until it starts to spell floppy.
- Sauce and noodles – Add the noodles and fractional the sauce, flip for a infinitesimal until the condiment is absorbed and nary longer pooling successful the cookware (~ 45 seconds). Then adhd the remaining condiment and flip again until it's each evenly coated and nary liquid remains (~ 1 minute), adding chilli crisp towards the end, if using. (Note 4)
- Serve – Toss done the greenish portion of the greenish bulb until it's wilted (barely 20 seconds), past disagreement betwixt bowls. Noodle slurping time!
Notes
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