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Chow Mein Ramen Noodles Recipe
Chow Mein Ramen Noodles is the FASTER technique to make Chow Mein utilizing a few cheeky shortcuts: pre shredded Coleslaw combine and immediate ramen noodles. It’s the quickest of quick meals – a 12 minute recipe, together with preparation!
Make ramen noodles higher – quicker!
Subsequent time you’ve had an extended day at work and you must cope with the query that billions of individuals around the globe face day by day what’s for dinner??, right here’s your reply: Chow Mein Ramen Noodles.
It’s the whole lot you understand and love about Chow Mein, besides it’s quicker to make:
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12 minute recipe together with prep
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one pan cooking
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easy, magic 5 ingredient Chow Mein Sauce
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veggie loaded – however you don’t even understand it! This has half your day by day really helpful 5 serves of veg a day.
Helpful shortcuts for this recipe
This isn’t a type of tremendous fast dinner recipes like Jamie Olive 15 Minute Meals type the place it’s a whirlwind of manic exercise with meals flying in all places, the oven and range going on the identical time, mixing with one hand whereas flipping steaks with the opposite, then in any case that you simply’ve received 45 minutes of unpolluted up.
Nope.
That is a simple breezy 12 minute recipe, and listed here are the useful shortcuts I take advantage of:
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immediate ramen or every other immediate noodles cooked in the identical skillet;
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retailer purchased Coleslaw combine – shredded cabbage and carrots – rip the packet open and tip it in!
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5 ingredient Chow Mein Sauce that doesn’t require cornflour/cornstarch for thickening (the starch from the ramen noodles thickens it)
Toss the ramen seasoning packs – we make our personal sauce!
Any ramen or immediate noodles!
This Chow Mein Ramen Noodles is the newest in a line up of “find out how to make ramen noodles higher” sequence I began earlier this yr (listed at backside of put up!). So I’m fairly positive I’ve made this recipe with each model of immediate ramen and immediate noodles I’ve been capable of get my arms on – and it really works each time.
I’ve a principle that this recipe is not possible to stuff up as a result of ramen noodles are MADE to be so foolproof that even inebriated school college students can boil up some up after a late night time out on the pub!?
What Chow Mein Ramen Noodles tastes like
When it comes to flavour, it tastes identical to “actual” Chow Mein. In actual fact, I like to recommend in my Chow Mein recipe to make use of ramen noodles should you can’t discover Chow Mein noodles!
The primary distinction within the consuming expertise is the feel of the noodles themselves. Whereas they’re the identical thickness, ramen noodles have a extra slippery texture and are white, whereas Chow Mein noodles are yellow. However there’s no distinction within the flavour of the noodles!
Sooner and more healthy than take out
This actually is a “quicker than take out” recipe for anybody.
Even should you’re a type of individuals who wish to swan across the kitchen sipping a glass of wine, chatting on the telephone to your pal with half a watch on the TV so that you don’t miss a second of Actual Housewives, rummaging round in your pantry to dig out sauces, dragging a chair over to achieve up excessive into the again of the cabinet for that packet of ramen noodles you understand is buried there someplace.
Sure, even when that’s you, you will have this Chow Mein Ramen Noodles on the desk, able to eat, quicker than ordering take out (or Uber Eats?). – Johnsat x
Extra Subsequent-Stage Ramen Noodles!
Toss the seasoning packet! Be amazed what you may make with a packet of ramen – tremendous fast!
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Watch find out how to make it
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp oil
- 200g/7oz chicken , sliced (thigh, breast)
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
- 2 ramen or instant noodle cakes , discard seasoning (Note 1)
- 200g/7oz pre shedded Coleslaw mix , cabbage and carrot (Note 2)
- 3 green onion stems , cut into 5cm/2″ lengths
- 1 heaped cup beansprouts
- 1 cup (250 ml) water
- 1.5 tbsp light soy sauce (Note 3)
- 1.5 tbsp Oyster Sauce (Note 4)
- 1 tbsp Chinese Cooking Wine or Mirin (Note 5)
- 2 tsp sesame oil , toasted (Note 6)
- 1 tsp white sugar (SKIP if using Mirin)
Instructions
- Mix Sauce in a bowl.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over high heat. Add garlic, cook 10 seconds.
- Add chicken and cook until mostly changes from pink to white, then add Sauce.
- Cook for 1 minute, then add Coleslaw mix and white part of green onions.
- Cook for 1 1/2 minutes until cabbage wilts, then push everything to the side to make room for the ramen (see video & photos in post).
- Add water then squidge the ramen cakes in side by side.
- When water simmers, leave for 45 seconds. Flip, then leave for 30 seconds.
- Loosen noodles, add bean sprouts and green onion, then toss energetically for 1 1/2 – 2 minutes until sauce reduces and coats noodles. (Note 7)
- Serve immediately!
Notes
1. Instant noodles/ramen – any brand will work here as long as both the noodle cakes will fit in your skillet! Discard the seasoning packets – we’re making our own sauce.
2. Pre shredded Coleslaw mix used for convenience! Green cabbage, carrot and a tiny bit of red cabbage. Can also finely slice your own – 2 cups green cabbage, 1 cup carrot.
3. Soy Sauce – use light or all purpose soy sauce. Do not use dark soy sauce or sweet soy sauce.
4. Oyster Sauce – sub with Hoisin sauce. You’ll get a hint of five spice flavour which makes it different to Oyster Sauce, but it’s lovely!
5. Mirin – a Japanese sweet cooking wine. Chinese cooking wine also great, otherwise use dry sherry. Non alcoholic sub – use LOW SODIUM soy sauce and sub all water with LOW SODIUM chicken stock.
6. Sesame oil – use toasted sesame oil if you can because it has a stronger flavour. Otherwise use untoasted. (Toasted is dark brown, untested sesame oil is yellow)
7. Noodles doneness – the beauty of instant noodles is that they’re basically foolproof. So if the noodles are not tender enough, just add more water and toss more. If the noodles get too thick, add touch of water to loosen!
8. Nutrition per serving. Reduce sodium by 250 mg per serving (500 mg in total) by using LOW SODIUM soy sauce.
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