Fried Noodles

October 24, 2011

October's calendar recipe was but titled 'fried noodles'. It was a fairly quick together with slow dinner to throw together together with provided enough of leftovers - a winning combination for working calendar week cooking. It's non the around exciting recipe, although the sesame seed sprinkles add together something a fleck interesting to a fairly measure stir-fry. It's a filling together with relatively well for yous meal, together with a skilful agency to role upward about vegie box bits, but I'm non certain we'll instruct far in i lawsuit to a greater extent than inwards a hurry.


Fried noodles

1/4 loving cup sesame seeds
two tablespoons sunflower oil
three teaspoons sesame oil
four jump onions, chopped finely
three cloves garlic, minced
three cherry-red chillies, chopped finely
200g employment solid tofu, cubed
150g push clit mushrooms, sliced
four pocket-size carrots, cutting into sticks
two tablespoons water
three tablespoons shoshoyu (Japanese soy sauce)
two teaspoons sugar
350g bundle of hokkien noodles

Toast the sesame seeds inwards a dry out frying pan until they're exactly golden (be careful they don't instruct away from yous together with burn!). Take them off the oestrus together with instruct out to cool for a few minutes earlier whizzing them inwards a spice grinder or nutrient processor to brand powdery sesame sprinkles.

Combine the sesame together with sunflower crude oil inwards a pocket-size bowl together with stir together.

Heat one-half of the crude oil mixture inwards a wok together with stir-fry the jump onion, garlic together with chilli over a medium-high oestrus for a pair of minutes. Remove the fried mix from the wok together with laid aside.

Now stir-fry the tofu for 5-6 minutes, until it's gone dainty together with golden. Once it's ready, take away it together with laid it aside for later.

Pour the remaining crude oil into the wok and, in i lawsuit it has warmed up, stir-fry the carrots together with mushrooms for a pair of minutes. Add the water, shoshoyu, carbohydrate together with noodles to the wok, making certain you've separated the noodles together with stirred them through the sauce every bit much every bit possible. Cover the wok together with instruct out to laid upward for four minutes.

Add dorsum the tofu together with the onion mix to the wok, stir everything together together with serve amongst a generous sprinkle of the sesame seeds on top.