Chicken Drunken Noodles
This is the chicken version of Drunken Noodles. Just swap out the chicken for different meat or skip it altogether if you are vegetarian. Vegetables can be swapped for whatever you have at hand.
Servings: 2 people
Equipment
- Wok or frying Pan
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 300 g chicken breast
- 200 g dry wheat noodles
- 30 g red & green peppers
- 50 g chinese leaf
- 20 g carrots
- 2 cloves garlic
- 5 red birds eye chilies
- 20 g mange tout
- 2 tsp dry basil optional
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp seasoning sauce
- 1 tbsp cooking wine optional
- 1 tsp black pepper
Instructions
Preparation
- Boil a saucepan of water. When the water is boiling put the dry wheat noodles in. Let them soak for 7 minutes. Use a cullender or sieve to drain the water then rinse under the cold tap until cool.
- Finely chop the chilli and garlic
- Slice the mange tout, carrots, Chinese leaf and peppers
- Cut the chicken breast into thin bite sized pieces
Cooking
- Heat the wok and put the cooking oil in
- Add the crushed chilli and garlic and stir fry until they begin to change colour
- Add the chicken and stir fry until partly cooked
- Add oyster sauce, fish sauce, seasoning sauce and sugar. Stir fry and mix together
- Add the cooking wine
- Add a bit of water or stock water to keep things moist
- Add dry basil and let it simmer for another 30 seconds
- Add peppers, carrots and mange tout and stir everything in
- Put the noodles in followed by the Chinese leaf
- Stir everything for 1 minute
- Turn the heat off and add the fresh basil
- Stir everything in or toss the wok if you can!
- Plate up your noodles and you're done