Veg Chow Mein Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is an Indo-Chinese stir-fried noodle dish that is very easy to make at home.
Veg Chow Mein
Chow Mein is nothing but a version of stir fried noodles with lots of veggies if it is veg chow mein and lots of chicken if chicken chow mein and lots of...hope you get my point. It is made like a simple noodles but i added quite a bit of sauces to make it taste delicious.
Ingredients for Veg Chow Mein
- Noodles - 1 packet / 200 grams
- Oil - 3 tbsp
- Ginger - 2 tbsp finely chopped
- Garlic - 2 tbsp finely chopped
- Green Chillies - 3 chopped finely
- Onion - 1 large sliced thinly
- Cabbage - 3 cups sliced thinly
- Carrot - 1 medium size juliened
- Beans - 10 chopped finely
- Capsicum / Bell Peppers - 1 sliced thinly
- Spring Onion for garnishing
- Pepper Powder to taste (optional)
For Sauce:
Tomato Ketchup - 3 tbsp
Soya Sauce - 2 tsp
Red Chilli Sauce - 2 tbsp
Vinegar - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Sugar - 1 tsp
Chow mein is always made on high heat so the sauces which you add gets dried up and coats each strands of noodles beautifully without making it clumpy and saucy. I served this with my yummy schezwan chicken drumsticks, will share that recipe soon..
How to Make Veg Chow Mein
- Boil noodles in salted boiling water as per package directions, Drain them, wash them in lots of cold water and drizzle some oil over it and toss well. Set aside.
- Mix all the ingredients for sauce and set aside
- Heat oil in a wok till smoking. Add in ginger, garlic. chilli and toss well.
- Add in onions and saute for a min.
- Now add in all veggies except capsicum and saute on high heat for 5 mins.
- Add in capsicum and toss again for 2 mins.
- Then add in noodles and toss well on high heat for 5 mins.
- Add in the sauce ingredients and toss on high heat for another 4 to 5 mins.
- Garnish with spring onions and serve hot.
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Veg Chow Mein Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 packet / 200 grams Noodles
- 3 tbsp Oil
- 2 tbsp Ginger finely chopped
- 2 tbsp Garlic finely chopped
- 3 Green Chillies chopped finely
- 1 large Onion sliced thinly
- 3 cups Cabbage sliced thinly
- 1 medium size Carrot juliened
- 10 Beans chopped finely
- 1 Capsicum / Bell Peppers sliced thinly
- Spring Onion for garnishing
- Pepper Powder to taste optional
- For Sauce:
- 3 tbsp Tomato Ketchup
- 2 tsp Soya Sauce
- 2 tbsp Red Chilli Sauce
- Vinegar - 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Sugar - 1 tsp
Instructions
- Boil noodles in salted boiling water as per package directions, Drain them, wash them in lots of cold water and drizzle some oil over it and toss well. Set aside.
- Mix all the ingredients for sauce and set aside
- Heat oil in a wok till smoking. Add in ginger, garlic. chilli and toss well.
- Add in onions and saute for a min.
- Now add in all veggies except capsicum and saute on high heat for 5 mins.
- Add in capsicum and toss again for 2 mins.
- Then add in noodles and toss well on high heat for 5 mins.
- Add in the sauce ingredients and toss on high heat for another 4 to 5 mins.
- Garnish with spring onions and serve hot.
Veg Chow Mein Recipe Step by Step
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| Start by cooking the noodles..Bring lots of water to a boil |
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| Add salt to it |
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| Add in noodles.. |
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| let them cook |
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| cook as per package directions |
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| Drain them, make sure, you wash them in lots of running tap water, this removes the excess starch from the noodles.. |
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| drizzle over some oil |
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| toss well |
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| Now take ingredients for sauce |
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| add all sauces and vinegar in |
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| add little sugar |
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| and some salt |
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| mix well and set aside |
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| now take your other ingredients |
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| prepare your veggies |
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| You also need lots of chopped garlic, ginger and chillies |
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| Heat oil in a wok till smoking |
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| add in ginger, garlic and chillies |
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| sizzle them for a min |
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| Add in onions |
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| saute for couple of mins |
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| add in cabbage, beans and carrots |
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| mix well on high heat |
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| add in capsicum |
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| toss well |
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| add in noodles |
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| toss well with veggies |
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| pour in the sauce |
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| mix well |
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| stir them on high heat |
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| Serve |
sutapa Purkayastha
Looking very tempting . Keep it up . We all love ur recipe and every day I m waiting for ur new recipes in ur blog . Luv u. May Gud bless u .
Ankita Suman
I m allergic to cabbage....can you please tell me it's substitute???..thank you for the recipe...your recipes are awesome....I wait for your recipes everyday...take care
Aarthi
@Ankita Sumanyou can skip it and add more carrots and capsicum and onions..U can even add mushrooms
Anonymous
Wow love your wok.
Where did you get it from?
Raagavi
What did you serve it with? The chicken drumsticks look nice. Do you have the recipe for them on your website.?
Thanks
Raagavi
Mohamed Omer
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Aarthi
@Raagaviwill share them soon
Aarthi
@Anonymousi got it in snapdeal