Daily Random Recipe
INGREDIENTS:
- Vegetable oil for deep-frying
- 250 g / 9 oz rice noodles
- 2 dried nori sheets, shredded
- 1 large red chilli, halved, deseeded and sliced
- 1 T mixed black and white sesame seeds (furikake)
- 3 T sesame oil
- 350 g / 12.3 oz small broccoli florets
- 250 g / 9 oz baby corn, halved lengthwise
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 5 cm / 2 inch piece of fresh ginger, finely grated
- 6 heads pak choi (or bok choy/Chinese cabbage), halved lengthwise
- 1 bunch of spring onions, diagonally sliced
- 100 ml / 3.4 fl oz hoisin sauce
- 2 T soy sauce
Heat the oil in a large pan. Add the noodles, nori and chilli –
the noodles with immediately puff up and become crisp. Remove
with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper. Toss with the
sesame seeds and set aside.
Heat sesame oil in a large wok or frying pan and stir fry the
broccoli for 2 minutes. Add the corn, garlic, ginger, pak choi
and spring onions and stir-fry for 3 minutes. Meanwhile, mix the
hoisin sauce and soy sauce and pour over the vegetables. Bring
to the boil and toss to coat. Serve immediate with the deep
fried noodle mixture piled on top.
Mr Falafel posted this recipe 18 months ago and I just
got around to trying it. It was really good! Hence my
breaking character and actually posting a recipe (albeit
someone else’s).
Serves 4 (Adam sez: well, I found that it serves 1 but I didn’t use the corn or the pak choi!)