Beef Chow Mein Noodles
Quick beef chow mein noodles combine savoury sauce, vegetables, egg, and caramelised ground beef in one pan.
Prep
: 10
Total
: 25 minutes
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 200 g chow mein noodles or other thin yellow egg noodles
- 1 1/2 tbsp canola oil divided as needed
- 2 cloves garlic finely minced
- 200 g beef mince ground beef, any fat percentage
- 3 stems green onions cut into 5 cm lengths, white and green parts separated
- 1 egg beaten into the pan
- 2 cups green cabbage finely sliced
- 1 carrot peeled and cut into thin batons
- 1 heaped cups bean sprouts about 75 g
- 1 1/2 tbsp light soy sauce or all-purpose soy sauce
- 1 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce for colour and depth
- 1 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 1/2 tbsp Chinese cooking wine Shaoxing wine
- 1 1/2 tsp white sugar
- 1 pinch white pepper
- 1 1/2 tsp cornflour cornstarch
- 3 tbsp water for the cornflour slurry
Instructions
Instructions
- Sauce - Mix ingredients in a small bowl then set aside. Some is used to flavour the beef, then the rest for the noodles.
- Sauce thickener (cornflour slurry) - Mix the cornflour / cornstarch and water in a separate small bowl.
- Prepare noodles per packet directions then drain.
- Cook beef - Heat the oil in a large non-stick pan over high heat. Cook garlic for 10 seconds, then add the beef and cook until you can no longer see pink. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons of the Sauce and the white part of the green onions. Cook for another 2 minutes to get the beef nicely caramelised.
- Mix the cornflour slurry into the remaining sauce.
- Egg - Add the egg into the pan then mix it through the beef, it will sort of scramble. Egg makes the beef stick to the noodles better!
- Cabbage & carrot - When the egg is mostly cooked, add the carrot and cabbage. Cook for 1 minute until cabbage starts to wilt.
- Sauce & noodles - Give the sauce a quick mix. Add the bean sprouts, noodles and sauce into the pan. Toss well for 1 minute or until sauce is dispersed through the noodles. Add green part of green onions. Toss for another 1 minute.
- Serve - Divide between bowls and serve!