Chinese Noodles Recipes - Ginger Noodles (Geung Sung Mein) Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 oz. long-life noodles

• 3/4pint (U.S. 1 7/8 cup) hot chicken stock

• 3 teaspoons peanut oil

• 3 large thin slices fresh ginger

• 2 spring onions

• 1 clove garlic

• pinch each salt and (M.S.G.)

• 1 teaspoon ginger sherry

• few drops sesame oil

• 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce

• 1/2 teaspoon corn-flour

• 1 teaspoon water

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Method:

1. Drop the noodles into t pint (U.S. 1 1/4 cups) boiling stock and 1 teaspoon peanut oil and boil them until soft, moving them about with chopsticks or the handle of a wooden spoon to keep them separate.

2. Meanwhile, prepare the dressing so that no time is lost in the final stages of the dish. Cut the ginger into thin strips. Cut the spring onions in 4-5 long strips and then into match stick sizes. Place them ready.

3. Heat 2 teaspoons peanut oil in a frying-pan. Add the crushed clove of garlic, cook until it becomes a pale gold color and then discard it.

4. Add  1/4 pint (U.S. 5/8 cup) chicken stock and the ginger and cook for 1  minutes.

5. Add the seasonings, ginger sherry, sesame oil, soy sauce and onions and cook for 2 minutes. Blend the corn-flour with the water and stir it in. Cook for 1 1/2 minutes.

6. By this time, the noodles should be ready. Turn a little cold water on to them and drain well. Transfer them to a heated dish and cut them with' scissors into the lengths you wish.