Chinese Noodles Recipes - Fried Rice Noodles with Prawns and Chicken Recipe

Ingredients

• 5 dessertspoons peanut oil

• 1 sliced small onion

• 1 tablespoon thinly sliced celery

• 1 tablespoon sliced green sweet pepper

• 1 tablespoon bean sprouts

• salt, sugar and (M.S.G.)

• dash soy sauce

• 1 oz. Chinese rice noodles

• 1 tablespoon cooked prawns

• 1 tablespoon sliced roast chicken

• 1 tablespoon sliced canned bamboo shoots

• 1 Chinese mushroom, cut into strips

• 1 teaspoon sesame oil

• 4-5 tablespoons chicken stock

• 1 teaspoon ginger sherry

• 1/2 -3/4 teaspoon corn-flour

• 1 tablespoon water

• watercress

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Method:

1. Heat 2 dessertspoons of the oil and cook the onion in it for 2 minutes, without coloring it.

2. Add the celery, green pepper and bean sprouts at intervals of 1 minute and season very lightly with a tiny pinch each of salt, sugar and (M.S.G.) and the soy sauce.

3. Toss about for 1 minute and remove to a hot plate. Meanwhile drop the rice noodles into boiling water for 1 minute and drain them well. Wipe out the frying-pan.

4. Add another 2 dessertspoons of peanut oil and heat it. Add the prawns, chicken, bamboo shoots and mushroom and heat through.

5. Add another tiny pinch each of the seasonings together with the sesame oil. Add the stock and sherry and then the first vegetables.

6. Boil up. Stir in die corn flour blended with the water and boil for 1 1/2 minutes. Turn the mixture into a heated serving dish. Wipe out the pan again and heat the remaining oil in it.

7. Toss the drained boiled noodles in it until heated through and glistening. Place on top of the savory mixture and garnish with watercress.