Planning time: twenty minutes + soaking
Total baking time: 10 minutes
Serves: 4
– 4 dried Chinese mushrooms
– two teaspoons cornflour
– two tablespoons soy sauce
– two tablespoons oyster sauce
– one tablespoon mirin or sweet sherry
– 200 g (6 1/2 oz) dried wheat noodles
– 1 teaspoon sesame oil
– engine oil, for cooking
– 2-3 cloves garlic, crushed
– 8cm (three inch) piece fresh ginger, slice into matchsticks – 375g (12 oz.) chicken breast fillets or maybe tenderloins, cut into small strips
– 1 white onion, cut into thin wedges
– 6 spring onions, cut into short lengths – 185g (6 oz.) little field mushrooms, thickly sliced
– one cup (90g/3 oz.) bean sprouts
-1/3 glass (20g/3/4 oz.) cut mint
Directions:
1. Place the dried mushrooms in a bowl and cover it with very warm water. Leave to soak for aproximatelly 10 minutes. Then drain as well as squeeze dried out and discard the challenging middle stem and chop the mushrooms finely.
2. After that blend the cornflour with about 1/4 cup (60ml/2 fl oz.) of water and mix to until it turns into a fine paste then add the soy sauce, the oyster sauce as well as the mirin.
3. Following that, cook the noodles in a pan of boiling salted water See for yourself, i loved this, about 1 2 minutes, and according to the manufacturer’s directions. After that drain it and set aside.
4. Heating the wok until it gets extremely warm and also add the sesame oil as well as one tablespoon of oil, then swirl it around to coat the side. Then stir-fry the garlic, the ginger and also the chicken strips in batches which are small over extremely high temperature for about 2 to 3 minutes, or until the chicken becomes nicely cooked through. Next remove from the wok and put aside.
5. Reheat the wok and add one tablespoon of the oil as well as stir fry the white onion and the spring onion for aproximatelly one to 2 minutes, or until it is softened. Next add the dried and area mushrooms and stir fry the combination for aproximatelly 1 to 2 minutes, or until it gets tender. Next remove from the wok as well as set aside.