Super Tasty Hokkien Noodles

Preparation: 15 mins | Cooking Time: ~15 mins | Serves: 4 Adults

Skills Level: Easy

Ingredients - Main

• 450g hokkien noodles
• 200g char sui (chinese bbq pork)
• 10-12 raw peeled prawns (medium size)
• 5-6 shitake mushrooms thinly sliced
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1cm piece of ginger, minced
• Small bunch of asian green (bok choy, choy sum or similar leafy greens)
• 1 small carrot, julienned
• ~1 cup of snow peas
• 1 cup of bean sprouts
• ¼ cup of vegetable stock
• Pepper
• Oil for cooking
• Thai lime to serve

Ingredients - Cooking Sauce

• 2 tbsp light soy sauce
• 2 tbsp shaoxing cooking wine
• 1 tsp oyster sauce
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp sesame oil

Method

• Combine cooking sauce ingredients and set aside.
• Marinate prawns in 1 tsp rice wine and season with pepper.
• Blanch noodles in hot water to loosen (assuming you bought packet noodles), don't over cook. Place noodles on paper towel and let dry.
• Add a little oil to a hot wok (or large pan) until smoking and quickly cook the prawns until almost done, set aside.
• Heat through bbq pork, not more than 1 min, and set aside (this is simply to heat through).
• Add a little more oil to the pan if needed and garlic, ginger, mushrooms, carrot and snow peas and gently stir fry until veggies soften, ~4-5 mins.
• Add greens and bean sprouts, continue until greens shrink a little, another 2-3 mins. Add a little vegetable stock to deglaze the pan.
• Return prawns and pork to the pan.
• Add the noodles and combine.
• Add cooking sauce and stir through until combined and noodles are coated. If looking dry add a little more vegetable stock.
• Keep stirring and combining for about 2 mins.
• Take off heat and serve with a lime to squeeze over and with some chili soy or chili padi to spice it up.

Tips & Alternatives

• Be cautious when heating the noodles, some packets suggest boiling but it is too easy to over cook. I usually place the noodles in a sieve and pour boiled water through the noodles to loosen, basically blanching. To conserve water simply place a bowl under the noodles and use the same water to pour through again if needed.
• The above recipe does not have chilli added as you can add as much or as little as you want later. However feel free to throw in during cooking to spice up your noodles.
• The greens you add are also up to you, as much, as little or as different as you wish.
• Add a little extra soy if needed, try to avoid using salt.
• If you can't find or don't have shaoxing cooking wine you can use rice wine or sherry as an alternative.