This quick and easy to make Chinese noodle dish is perfect as a snack or main course and for hosting great parties. In its typical preparation boiled noodles are tossed with garlic, ginger, chopped vegetables, soy sauce, chilli sauce, tomato ketchup and spices that gives it its signature taste and texture.
Ingredients:2 cups Plain Noodles (150 gm pack)
6 cloves of Garlic, minced
1 teaspoon minced Ginger
1/4 cup sliced French Beans
1/4 cup finely chopped Spring Onion
1/2 cup thinly sliced Capsicum
1/2 cup shredded Cabbage
1/4 cup julienned Carrot
1/4 teaspoon Black Pepper Powder
2 teaspoons Soy Sauce
1½ teaspoons Chilli Sauce (red or green)
1 tablespoon Tomato Ketchup
1 tablespoon +1 tablespoon Oil
Salt to taste
Directions:- Boil the noodles.
- Cut the vegetables as mentioned in ingredients section. Make sure to chop the vegetables as thin as possible as they will take less time to cook.
- Heat 1-tablespoon oil in a wok (chinese style cooking vessel) or a wide mouthed pan over medium flame. Add minced garlic and minced ginger and stir-fry for 30 seconds.
- Add French beans and stir-fry for a minute. Add spring onion, capsicum, cabbage and carrot.
- Stir-fry vegetables until they are cooked but still crunchy for approx. 2-minutes over high flame.
- Add soy sauce, green chilli sauce, tomato ketch up, black pepper powder and salt (please note that we have also added salt while boiling noodles).
- Mix well and cook for a minute.
- Add boiled noodles.
- Mix and toss until noodles are evenly coated with sauces and vegetables for approx. 1-minute. Turn off flame and transfer it to serving plate.