Foodie Diaries

Vegetable chowmein or noodles is a simple yet delicious recipe loved by all and specially children and youngsters. It is my comfort food and also a quick fast food when I am not in mood for too much preparations. It barely takes 15-20 min. You can prepare lots of variations by using different sauces and vegetables. today I am sharing basic chowmein recipe.

Also I always try to add more veggies to keep it healthy. You can also try using rice noodles or soba noodles for a healthier version. The basic sauces used are soya sauce, chili sauce and vinegar. You can try more chinese recipes like chilly paneer, fried rice etc.

Recipe Type :-     Main Course
Cuisine :-             Chinese
Time :-                 20 minutes
Serves :-               2

Ingredients :-

• 80-100 gms            Noodles
• 2 tbs                        Sesame Oil
• 1 tsp                        Ginger Garlic paste
• 1                               Onion (sliced)
• 2                               Spring onions
• 2 tbs                        Carrot (sliced)
• 2 tbs                        Cabbage (sliced)
• 2 tbs                        Capsicum (sliced)
• 1/2  tsp                    White Pepper powder
• As per taste            Salt
• 2 tsp                        Vinegar
• 2 tsp                        Red chili sauce
• 1 tsp                         Green chili sauce
• 1 tbs                         Soya sauce

Method (Step By Step Vegetable Chowmein Recipe) :-

1. Keep a Big deep vessel on gas and fill it half with water, let it boil. Till the water gets boiled do the preparation such as chopping the veggies. 
2. When water gets boiled add 1 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of oil in it and then add noodles to it without breaking them, slowly they will get immersed in water. Let them boil till 90 % done. (Almost 7-8 minutes) 
3. When done, strain the noodles with the help of a seive. (Put cold water over noodles if making them after sometime) 
4. Take a wok, add oil to it and keep it to heat. When its hot add ginger garlic paste. Cook for 30 sec. 
5. Now add onions and spring onion whites to it. Cook for few 10-20 seconds and add carrots and cabbage to it. Cook for 1 minute and add capsicum. Cook for 2 minutes. (Keep the veggies crunchy) 
6. Add salt and white pepper to it. Mix it and add boiled noodles, sauces and vinegar.  
7. Mix the noodles very well. Put some spring onion greens. Again give it a mix. 
8. Serve them hot and garnish with spring onion greens. You can pair these up with some Manchurian or chilly vegetable gravy. 

Notes :-

• Add as many and different veggies of your liking…. for eg… zucchini, mushrooms, pumpkin etc
• Increase or decrease spices as per your taste.
• For a more more pronounced chinese taste, add 2 pinches of ajinomoto.