The lady in my life taught me that Chow Mein, was a wonderful thing to behold.
Boy, was she right!
We go through loads of it, but this one is the best recipe I have come up with when trying to create it for ourselves.
Ingredients
- Leftover Pulled Pork
- 3 nests of thin Noodles
- A packet of Stir Fry Vegetables, or just chop your own.
- Half a bag of spinach
- 4 cloves of Garlic
- 8tbsp of Dark Soy Sauce
- 2tbsp Light Soy Sauce
- 1tsp of Chinese Five Spice
Directions
1. Put the pulled pork into a dish, covering it with the chopped garlic.
2. Cover it with the dark soy sauce and Chinese five spice, ensuring it is completely covered.
Leave to marinade for 20-30mins.
3. Heat a Wok on a high heat for 5mins.
Add in some olive oil, or keep it healthy by using a few squirts of spray oil.
4. At the same time, cook the noodles according to the packet instructions. Drain in a colander, and leave to steam while you get the rest of the ingredients ready.
5. Add the pork and garlic into the wok, ensuring the soy sauce is left in the dish. Stir fry for 5mins, or until the residual soy sauce as evaporated.
6. Add in all of the stir fry vegetables, and stir fry for a further 5mins.
7. Add in the spinach, as well as the remaining marinade, cooking for 5mins until the spinach has wilted.
8. Add in the noodles, ensuring it is completely mixed with the other ingredients.
9. Add the light soy sauce, and cook for a further 5mins, ensuring to keep it moving, so the noodles don’t stick.
Serve with a fork or some chopsticks. This one is deliciously morish!
The Origin of Chow Mein
Chow mein are stir-fried noodles, the name being the romanization of the Taishanese chāu-mèing.
The dish is popular throughout the Chinese diaspora and appears on the menus of Chinese restaurants. It is particularly popular in the United States, Britain, Australia, Nepal,India,, South Africa and Italy (where they are known as “Ciao-Mein”).
The word means ‘fried noodles’, chow meaning ‘fried’ and mein meaning ‘noodles’. The pronunciation chow mein is an English corruption of the Taishanese pronunciation chāu-mèing.
The lightly pronounced Taishanese, resembling the end of a Portuguese nasal vowel, was taken to be /n/ by English speakers. The Taishan dialect was spoken by migrants to America from Taishan.
Courtesy of Wikipedia
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