Vegetarian Meals: Chinese vegetables with Egg Noodles Recipe

Do you know that vegetarian meals are easily prepared with common ingredients in the kitchen

I found out that vegetarian recipes are not complicated at all.

It is not time consuming to make and you will be surprised that vegetarian meals preparation is similar to meat recipes except that the ingredients involved are meatless and the seasoning used are similar too.

If you are looking for a quick meal for breakfast or lunch, you should consider this Chinese Vegetables with Egg Noodle recipe which tasted awesomely delicious and nutritious too

The beauty of this egg noodle recipe is I had added assorted vegetables for more fibre and lots of vitamins.

Bean sprouts, broccoli, carrots, sweetcorns and cucumbers. These are vegetables that are commonly found in the wet market at very cheap price, except for the broccoli.

You can replace broccoli with cheaper vegetables such as mustard greens, lettuce or Chinese cabbage.

Egg noodles is one of the common noodles used in stir fries because it is not as oily and sticky as yellow noodles.

In addition, egg noodles are sold in dried form, packed in a large packet, cheaper and economical.

Egg noodles are ideal accompaniment to stir fries for a quick meal, because you can soak the egg noodles in a pot of hot boiling water while you prepare the other ingredients.

If you are not a fan of button mushrooms, replace them with fresh oyster mushrooms or Chinese black mushrooms.

Alternatively, you could replace mushrooms with mock vegetarian meats instead!

Chinese vegetables with Egg Noodles Recipe

Ingredients

1 packet of egg noodles
1 tbsp olive oil
1 clove garlic-minced
2 shallots-peeled and sliced
A bunch of spring onions-chopped
1 small carrot, peeled and cut into matchsticks strips
1 small cucumber-sliced
1 small broccoli, washed and broken into florets
1 packet baby sweetcorn
1 handful button mushrooms from a can ( discard the water)-sliced
1 handful of bean sprouts- remove tails and shells.
Salt and black pepper to taste
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp white sesame seeds-toasted

Method to prepare:

Bring a pot of water to boil. Toss in the Egg noodles. Allow to simmer for 5 min under high heat.

Use a fork to toss and turn the noodles. When the noodles had soften, turn off heat, strain them.
Discard the water. Bring the pot to boil with another clean water.
This time, cook the broccoli florets for 5 min with a little salt.
Heat up a non stick frying pan with olive oil
Saute garlic and shallots until fragrant
Add in carrot sticks, broccoli and sweetcorns.
Stir fry for 5min.
Then toss in the chopped spring onions, slices of button mushrooms and bean sprouts
Then add in slices of cucumber, season with salt, pepper and light soy sauce as according to taste
Briefly wash the cooked egg boodles, starin and toss into the pan.
Quickly stir fry with the ingredients until all are combined well.
Sprinkle with a little more light soy sauce if taste bland.