Recipe: Easy vegetable chow mein (BBC Good Food)

 

a satisfying and healthy chow mein recipe that is as fun to cook as it is to eat

Vegetable Chow Mein

Ingredients

  • 3 spring green onions, finely chopped

  • 3 garlic cloves finely chopped

  • 2 teaspoons minced ginger

  • 2 cups mushrooms thinly sliced

  • 1 red pepper de-seeded and thinly sliced

  • 1 yellow pepper de-seeded and thinly sliced

  • 2 cups broccolini halved lengthwise

  • 1 cup sugar snap peas halved lengthwise

  • 10 baby corn halved lengthwise

  • 2 cups baby spinach

  • 2-3 tablespoons soy sauce

  • 2 tablespoons oyster sauce

  • 1 teaspoon sesame oil

  • juice of 1/2 lemon

  • 300 g egg noodles dry weight, cooked and cooled

  • Fresh chopped chillies to serve (optional)

Instructions

  1. In a hot wok, add a splash of vegetable oil then add the spring onion, garlic, ginger, mushrooms and peppers and stir fry for 5 minutes.

  2. Add the broccolini, sugar snaps and corn and fry for another 5 minutes until the vegetables are cooked but still firm.

  3. Add the baby spinach, soy, oyster sauce and sesame oil then stir fry for another 2 minutes to wilt the spinach.

  4. Add the cooked noodles then toss to combine, Season with lemon juice and more soy if necessary and serve.

RecipeCara Thorpe