Vegetarian Chow Mein

If you are a Chinese food lover, this recipe is definitely for you. Chinese recipes are always easy to make and so much yummier than other cuisines with a lot of health and nutrition benefits. Insufficient and unbalanced diets can easily make your metabolism slow, so this is very important to have a balanced diet with all the necessary nutrients that provide nourishments. This recipe serves as one of the best healthy and balanced diets that can be cooked as both lunch and dinner with all the nutrients including proteins, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, minerals and fiber. This recipe is cooked with 8 kinds of vegetables that are easily available in everyone’s kitchen. The Vegetarian Chow Mein recipe is the best thing to lose weight and stubborn belly fat as well as abdominal fat. Chicken lovers can add some chicken to make it more delicious and protein riched recipe. 

The beauty of this vegetable chow mein recipe is that you can literally use any vegetable you have. If you are struggling with weight loss and wants your tummy to be full for hours, you can add fiber rich vegetables with some lean chicken. 

Once you try out this recipe, I am sure you are going to want to make it on repeat, just like me. I usually like to call it as a “clean my fridge” formula since it can be prepared with all the leftover vegetables in my fridge. 

A lot of people also ask this question if vegetable chow mein is healthy or not, and my answer is always YES! IT IS. Since it is a pack of fresh vegetables cooked in a paste of ingredients like onions, ginger and garlic which are known as extremely healthy. 

Storage and reheat instructions:

You can store the vegetable chow mein in an air-tight container for up to 3 days. Make sure the container is clean and completely dry. You can reheat the chow mein in oven as well as on the stove by stir-frying it until it is completely heated through. 

Serving: 2

Ingredients:

• ½ onion (chunks)
• 1 clove crushed garlic
• 1 tbsp. olive oil
• ½  green capsicum (chunks)
• 1 zucchini (chunks)
• 50g spinach
• 200g Chinese sliced cabbage 
• 1 carrot (sliced)
• 8 mushrooms (quartered)
• 2 tsp. curry powder
• 1 tbsp. soy sauce
• 1 tbsp. Tomato ketchup
• 1 tbsp. Mirin
• 100g ramen noodles
• 1 cup hot water

Instructions:

1. Boil ramen noodles for 5 minutes and then strain them.
2. In a large frypan heat olive oil. Add onion chunks, capsicum  chunks and sliced carrot and stir fry for 2 minutes.
3. While this is cooking, mix the curry powder, soy, mirin and 4 tbsp. water in a small bowl. Mix until curry powder is fully dissolved and formed a sauce.
4. Add zucchini chunks and mushrooms, stir fry for 2 more minutes.
5. Add garlic and 2 tbsp. sauce mixture. 
6. Season with pepper. Add ½ the remaining hot water to pan and continue stirring.
7. Add cabbage, spinach, noodles, and remaining sauce mix. Drizzle the ketchup over , then pour in the remaining hot water and mix until fully cooked.
8. Enjoy the tasty Vegetable Chow Mein.

Do give it a try and let me know If you liked it!