We do love a good chow meain so today we are sharing a delicious chow mein recipe with you.
Noodles, as almost all other things, have their symbolism… Did you know noodles represent long life and it is thought unlucky to cut them. Kids are in luck as slurping them noisily,
is considered polite!
This delicious dish is great to make for your kids when you are introducing China and Chinese culture to them. Like explaining to them that there are 292 languages in China and the official language is Mandarin. It has no alphabet like we do so children here have to learn over 7,000 characters, like little pictures, before they are 11 years old.
Chow Mein
Ingredients:
- • 250g/9oz sliced roast beef
- • 4 spring onions/scallions
- • 1 red pepper
- • 2 savoy cabbage leaves
- • 1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice
- powder
- • 2 teaspoons ready-crushed
- wet garlic
- • 3 tablespoons dark soy sauce
- • 1 pinch of ground black pepper
- • 240ml/8fl oz/1 cup water
- • 300g/10½oz straight-to-wok
- noodles
Extra equipment:
- casserole dish with a lid (longhandled)
- spoon
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4.
- Put into the casserole dish cooked beef cut into wide strips. You can use scissors.
- Trim both ends of the spring onions/scallions using scissors. Then cut the white and pale green parts into small rings and add to the casserole.
- Pop open the peppers and cut it into finger size pieces using scissors. Chop out the thick stems of the cabbage leaves and cut the leaves into strips. Add them too.
- Into the water stir the five spice powder, crushed garlic, soy sauce and pepper. Add everything into the casserole. Put the fresh noodles on top and put the lid on.
- Put the casserole in the oven using oven gloves (ask your adult to do it). Bake for 20min.
- Ask the adult to stir carefully with a long handled spoon, then bake for 10min more until boiling hot.
- You can serve with a green salad and try to eat the squiggly noodles with chopsticks.
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Helen
Helen
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine!Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time.KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10.It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania.Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on.Get in touch TODAY!