These Chinese Vegetable Chow Mein They’re ready in minutes with your favorite veggies. Here’s an easy recipe to improvise with something original.
Cooking times will vary depending on the noodles you are using. You can use fine rice noodles or traditional noodles, and you can even refill them with noodles they sell so they are ready in minutes. As for the veggies, chop up what you have in the fridge or use your favorite veggies or even a mix of veggies for a stir-fry.
If you use soy sauce instead of soy sauce fried noodles (sold in Asian stores) You can prepare the famous noodle chow mein, But our vegetable chow mein recipe for you uses simple ingredients that we love, and we use classic soy sauce.
Ingredients for 2 servings
- A pack of 200g Chinese noodles or a bucket of oriental noodles with water to make a 300g finished product
- 300 g mixed vegetables (green garlic or asparagus, half a red or yellow pepper, a handful of mushrooms or shiitake mushrooms, a few carrots, chopped zucchini, or sprigs of broccoli or cauliflower…)
- soy sauce
- Serve with sesame seeds
- sunflower oil or mild olive oil
- salt and pepper
Preparation of Vegetable Fried Noodles
- Prepare the recipe with traditional dry pasta: In a casserole on the fire we salt the water.When it boils we dip it in Noodle Then turn off the heat and stir to get them all in (they will be made from the residual heat). We drain them in a strainer.
- Prepare the recipe with a bucket of oriental noodles: We prepare the noodles for serving according to the instructions on the package.
- in a wok Saute the chopped vegetables in regular pieces in hot oil in a pan for a few minutes, be careful as you like the vegetables to be more or less al dente. If the vegetables are cooked differently. Add the hardest ones first. You have to season them, considering that the soy sauce has been salted a bit later.
- we combined Noodle Already hydrated and drained into the pot. If you use noodles to rehydrate in the tub, they tend to be quite dry, just right. Stir to combine everything and add soy sauce to taste.
- we serve Our Chinese chow mein is served with fresh vegetables and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Tips and Comments
- We can add any other vegetable we like, peas, leeks, onions or chives… always carefully controlling the cooking time of each vegetable.
- If you don’t have Chinese noodles, you can use vermicelli noodles for this recipe, just watch the cooking time.
