Perfect Chicken Chow Mein

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A local chef taught me how to make a fail safe chow mein which tastes wonderful.

Perfect Chicken Chow Mein

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  • Yield: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
  • Recipe type: Main

Ingredients:

  • 4 layers of dried noodles
  • 2 chicken oxos
  • oyster sauce
  • dark soya sauce
  • small piece of ginger grated
  • 3 garlic cloves crushed
  • 1 tsp 5 spice powder
  • 500g thinly sliced chicken breast
  • a couple of handfuls of sliced mushrooms, onions and red pepper

Directions:

  1. Cook the noodles in stock made fom the oxos and hot water.
  2. When cooked, remove the noodles and reduce the cooking water by a third, then add a glug of oyster sauce, another of dark soya sauce, the ginger, garlic and 5 spice and simmer for a further 5 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile stir fry the chicken quickly, and when just cooked put it into the sauce.
  4. Then stir fry the mushrooms, onions and peppers for a few minutes and then put them also into the sauce along with the cooked noodles, heat through and serve.

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