Dinner Tuesday 14 November - Chow Mein

Chow Mein
1 cloves garlic, crushed
1 thumb of ginger, peeled & grated
1 rib celery, cut into julienne
1 carrot, cut into julienne
1 sweet red pepper, cut into julienne
2 tablespoons Shao Shing or dry sherry
200g blanched bean sprouts
100g Chinese cabbage, sliced fine
4 spring onions, cut into julienne
40g Chinese egg noodles, cooked according to packet instructions
100g cooked prawns
1 tablespoon soy sauce
3 tablespoon oyster sauce

Spray a non stick wok with a little oil and briefly fry the ginger & garlic. Add the celery, carrot & pepper and stir fry until nearly cooked.

Add the Shao Shing, the bean sprouts and the Chinese cabbage and stir fry over high heat for about 2 minutes.

Add the spring onions, cooked noodles, prawns, soy & oyster sauces and mix well to heat thoroughly.

Serves one.

Nutrition Summary
Calories (kcal) 379.4
Protein (g) 30.2
Carbohydrate (g) 58.3
Fat (g) 3.9
Fibre (g) 9.3

This is more effort to use up bits of veggies in the fridge and some store cupboard ingredients - the noodles were the last 1/2 a slab from a packet i bought in Penrith back on the late August Bank Holiday.

Years ago, I read some where that "chow mein" means "small eats". That has always stuck in my head, particularly when I am looking at a large bowl of small eats, like this one.

Anyway, I am not sure that this is true anyway, as I think that "mein" means "noodles". "Small eats" sounds more like dim sum, but then dim sum apparently is a Cantonese phrase (點心), literally meaning"touch the heart" .... go figure.