Chinese Chicken Recipes for Busy People

I really like this idea of doing some detox for now.  I am really thinking that I should stick with my idea of having no meat for breakfast and lunch for couple of weeks and see if I feel lighter. LOL… I love meat and it is difficult for me to go without meat for a whole day, but I can try having meat once a day.  My coworker has followed some detox diet for 3 weeks or a month, and she lost some weight.  I asked her how many pounds she lost, and she didn’t know.  She said she can tell her clothes were loose.  I wish my clothes were loose.  I gained so much weight (plus didn’t exercise for so long) that last year’s clothes are getting tight :(  It would be nice if I could lose a few pounds. Hehehhehe.  I made a no meat version of Shanghai Fried Noodles today. Shanghai Fried Noodles that I tried at some Shanghai restaurants usually have meat in it like pork or chicken.  They were tasty. The only thing that I didn’t like was the amount of oil they used. It felt like they put a cup of oil or so.  These days, I cook everything with spray oil.  You know, every little bit counts :)  and I’m desperate to lose weight.  Shanghai style noodles are fresh noodles.  You can get them from the refrigerated section of a Chinese grocery store.  They look like Japanese Udon noodles.   I just added whatever I had at home.  Like fried rice, you can be creative and add whatever ingredients you prefer.  I added some fresh shiitaki mushrooms and chives.  It was pretty yummy

 

Ingredients (Serves 2):

• Shanghai Noodles, 1 pack about 16 oz
• Fresh Shiitaki mushrooms, about 10-15 pieces
• Chives, a handful (sorry, I didn’t measure)
• Scallion, 2 stalks
• Onion, 1
• Garlic, 2 cloves
• Dark soy sauce, 1 Tbsp
• Light soy sauce, 1 tsp
• Water, 1 Tbsp
• Chinese cooking wine, 1 Tbsp
• Sugar, 1 tbsp
• Sesame oil, 1 tsp
• Salt, a dash

Steps:

1. Cut onion into strips, put it aside.
2. Finely chop the garlic, put it aside
3. Cut chives into 3-inch length long pieces.
4. Cut shiitaki mushrooms into strips. Put it aside.
5. In a large frying pan, spray cooking oil.  Use high heat. Add mushrooms, onion, and garlic. Stir fry it for 2 or 3 minutes.  Add light soy sauce.  Mix it well and fry it for another 2 minutes or so.
6. Spray a little bit more oil to the pan.  Add noodles.  Fry it for 3 minutes.  Add cooking wine, water, soy sauce and sugar.  Mix it well.  Turn the heat down to medium.  Let it cook for 3 more minutes or cook until the noodles look soft.
7. Add chives.  Mix it well for 1 minute. Turn off the heat.  Add scallion and sesame oil.  Mix it well.  Serve hot.

Comments:

1. Norman Says:
   23rd February, 2011 at 12:51 am

   I love Shanghai noodles especially in black bean sauce.