Vegetable Chow Mein

Posted on June 11, 2008
Filed Under Chinese (Indianised), Easy Meals, Snacks, Vegeterian |

Vegetable Chow Mein is a very quick recipe to cook for snacks or meal. Its often called Vegetable Noodles as well. Though Chow Mein or Noodles is a typical Chinese recipe but here I have cooked the one we get in Indian restaurants and road-side ‘Chinese stalls’. This is a very easy to cook and quick Indian style vegetable chow mein recipe.

Preparation time - 15 minutes
Cooking time - 20 minutes
Serves - 2

Ingredients required to cook vegetable chow mein:

Chow mein (or noodles) - 200 gm
Salt - Slightly more than 1 teaspoon (or, to taste)
Onion - 1 medium piece
Beans - Half cup (chopped)
Capsicum - 1 medium (cut into narrow stripes)
Cabbage - 1 cup (stripped)
Carrot - Half cup (striped0
white oil - 4 tablespoon
Sugar - Half teaspoon
Oyster sauce - One and half tablespoon

How to cook vegetable chow mein:

Boil the noodles and then drain the water
Wash the noodles again in cold water and drain again
Chop or stripe the vegetables as mentioned above in ingredients
Heat 4 tablespoon of oil and fry the capsicum, beans and carrot for 5 minutes in low heat.
Increase the flame and fry it for another half a minute
Add onion and cabbage and fry for another 1-2 minutes
Add the portion of salt and sugar as mentioned above and keep frying for about half a minute
Turn off the flame
Add one and half tablespoon Oyster sauce
Mix well
Now add the boiled noodles and mix well
Turn on high flame and stir for 2 minutes
Its ready to serve. Service with a Chinese side dish like Chilly Chicken or Vegetable Manchurian etc. I will share some of these Chinese recipes (Indian Chinese recipes) going ahead.

You can try this vegetable chow mien recipe at home for kids snacks as well. They love to have noodles. Also, for the vegetable noodles preparation you can also add more vegetables like peas and spring onion.

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