Chinese Chicken noodles are a delicious and a quick lunch/dinner that requires few ingredients that are easily available in your pantry. Also it gets from kitchen to dining table in a matter of few minutes. And its just a perfect meal for weekends. Egg noodles cooked with chicken and few veggies with a few sauces mixed in together with Garlic fried in a smokey flavor makes a perfect Asian style Noodles and they come out so amazingly delicious that you will never feel the need to order take out from a Chinese restaurant again. This dish is so mouthwatering that you will making it very often.
My kids can actually eat these Chicken noodles for every other meal. These Chicken noodles are pretty easy to make, I usually add Onions, scallions and green chilies. You can add broccoli and bell peppers as well if you feel like. Usually I also add in corn kernels at times and something that I feel adds a lot of flavor to this dish are Peanuts. The key to preparing perfect noodles is to cook everything separately and mix things together and then add in the mixed sauce. Also, one thing that I feel makes these noodles perfect are cooking them with tongs specially when you mix things together.
One of the reasons why Chinese food does not taste the same at home as in restaurants is that ingredients that are put in Chinese noodles, including the sauce, all are cooked on high heat. The food cooked on high heat and that kind of gives a smoke flavor to the ingredients and the smoked or charred flavor is absorbed pretty fast. A lot of people suggest using a Wok but honestly, I don’t use one and feel my Asian Takeaways tastes better than homemade ones is the smokey charred flavor in the dish. Ingredients are tossed on high heat, really quickly to give the flavor. It sometimes feels impossible to recreate the same flavor at home, of course without the flavor enhancers and God knows all what goes into your food to make it taste so good, but honestly, the food made at home tastes much more fresh and if made using the right recipe with all ingredients in proportion will make a mouthwatering dish.
Now its not possible for everyone to have a Chinese Wok at home. But its always better to cook in a pan that is shaped like a dome. It gives you more surface area to work. For making noodles stir fry or Rice stir fry, a large pan is always good. Tossing in high heat with sesame Oil adds the smokey flavor to the noodles. Enjoy!!!
| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 30 Minutes |
| Servings |
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- 6 No. Egg Noodle packs Boiled according to packet instructions
- 1 cup Peanuts
- 2 No. Onions Cut to cubes
- 2 tbsp Sesame Oil
- 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp Rice Vinegar
- 1 tbsp Soya sauce
- 2 tbsp Red Hot sauce
- 1 tbsp Dry red chili flakes
- 4 No. Whole dry red chilies
- 1 tsp Brown sugar
- 2 tbsp Garlic buds Chopped or crushed
- 1 lb Chicken [ Boneless] Cut to small pieces
- 1 cup Scallion chopped
- 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
- 1/2 tsp white pepper powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt More or less according to your taste
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- Add 1 tbsp Sesame Oil to the pan and fry the peanuts.
- Mix Soya sauce, 1 tbsp Sesame Oil, Dry red chili flakes, Rice Vinegar, Hot sauce and brown sugar. Mix in crushed garlic and mix well.
- Take the peanuts out and add in the vegetable Oil. Toss in the chicken pieces and cook them till they change color. Take it out.
- Add in the dry red whole chilies and Onions. Cook till the onions become soft. If you are using bell peppers, this is the time to add them. Cook on high heat.
- Add half of the scallions and saute.
- Add the chicken and Peanuts. Add salt, Black pepper and white Pepper. Mix well.
- Add the Noodles.
- Add the mixed oil and spice.
- Add the remaining scallions.
- Serve warm .
