Quick chicken chow mein

Preparation and cooking time

• Prep:10 mins
• Cook:10 mins
• Plus marinating
• Easy
• Serves 4

This speedy, kid-friendly supper is a great way of cramming a good variety of vegetables into one meal

Ingredients

• 3 garlic cloves, crushed
• good chunk fresh root ginger, grated
• 1 red chilli, deseeded and chopped
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp tomato purée
• 2 chicken breasts, cut into chunky strips
• 3 blocks dried egg noodles
• ½ a head broccoli, broken into florets
• 3 carrots, cut into thin sticks
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 300g pack beansprout
• 3 spring onions, halved and sliced into long strips
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce

Method

• STEP 1

Mix together the garlic, ginger, chilli, soy sauce and tomato purée, then add the chicken and leave it to marinate while you prep the rest of the ingredients.

• STEP 2

Boil a large pan of water, add the noodles, broccoli and carrots, then cook for 4 mins before draining.

• STEP 3

Heat the vegetable oil in a wok, tip in the chicken and its marinade, then stir-fry for 4-5 mins until cooked. Toss in the noodles, vegetables, beansprouts and spring onion to warm through, then mix the oyster sauce with 2 tbsp water and stir this in just before serving.