"Yat Gaw Mein Soup with Chicken - Yakamein Recipe

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This yakamein Chinese creole noodle soup is going to be your new favorite Friday night fakeout meal. So simple to prepare in one-pot and so very flavorful, you can't go wrong with this yat gaw mein.

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Ingredients

  • 2 2 2 Spring Onions with the greens
  • 120 120 4.25 grams/ 4.25 ounces boneless Chicken
  • 1 1 1 Egg
  • 1 1 1 Tablespoon Oil
  • 1 1 2 1 Ginger Garlic Paste [Homemade] [store bought] or 2 cloves garlic and 1 cm ginger chopped fine
  • 1 1 1 Tablespoon Creole Seasoning
  • 250 250 8.45 1 8.45 fluid ounces/ 1 cup Chicken Broth
  • 500 500 16.9 2 16.9 fluid ounces/ 2 cups Water
  • 50 50 1.76 50 grams/ 1.76 ounces Wheat Noodles (see note)
  • 1 1 1 Tablespoon Soy Sauce
  • 1 1 1 Tablespoon Chili Sauce (optional)

Preparation

Step 1

Instructions
Keep all your ingredients ready. Cut your spring onion bulbs into slices, keep the spring onion greens at the side and chop. The stalks will be used to garnish the soup.
Cut your boneless Chicken into bite-sized strips and keep aside.
For the Egg, keep a pot on the heat and bring the water to a boil (make sure there is enough water to cover the egg). Place your egg into the cooking water. cook for 1 minute covered, turn off the heat and time for 3 more minutes. In that time your egg will get cooked so that the yolk will remain soft. Take out from the water and, crack briefly and keep in a bowl with cold water. Keep aside.
Now grab your pan to make the yat gaw mein, heat up, pour in the oil and throw in your sliced onion bulbs. Stir-fry for a little and add the ginger and garlic, stir-fry for another minute. Reduce the heat if it splashed a lot.
Next, add the chicken pieces and stir cook for a minute or two on both sides. Then season with the Creole seasoning. Stir cook for another few seconds before pouring in the broth and the water. Mix well.
Keep on medium to high heat so that the soup starts to cook. Add your wheat noodles and soy sauce at this point and mix well again.
Allow the yakamein to simmer for 10 minutes. Serve in soup bowls with a half of the egg and the chopped green spring onion.
Notes
1. You can make this soup vegetarian too by keeping out the chicken and using veg broth instead of the chicken broth
2. For the Noodles use only wheat noodles. You can use regular egg chinese low mein (hakka) noodles or flat egg noodles.
3. Use my quick 3 minute creole seasoning

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