I’m not usually a fan of ginger flavoured foods but I’ve been experimenting with more flavours lately, and ginger is meant to have natural healing and health properties. I’m definitely glad I decided to give it another chance because this recipe is bursting at the seams with flavour and salt (not that you will notice it at all).
The flavour is a very fresh and leaves your taste buds with a very zingy vibe.
You can decide how much sauce you want to use, but my philosophy has always been the more sauce, the merrier! I’m never one to hold back on adding it to any recipe. If you find the sauce a bit too strong, you don’t need to mix the full amount in as it will be diluted in the mixture. It is completely up to you! The great thing is that you create the sauce prior to adding it to the rest of the recipe so you can add as much as you like!
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup chicken (approx. one chicken breast) (*Note if you are a vegetarian you can change the chicken for tofu)
- 1/4 cup coriander/cilantro
- 7 mushrooms (chopped)
- 1 zucchini (chopped)
- noodles (enough for two people)
- * optional 100g tofu (chopped)
- * optional 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
Sauce ingredients:
- 2 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce (*note use gluten-free soy sauce if required)
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon garlic paste
- 1/2 teaspoon chili flakes
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon ginger (grated)
Method
Step 1: Place a saucepan over high heat, fill with water and bring to a boil. Add the noodles and bring back to a boil again. Keep an eye on the noodles – depending on the type of noodles the cooking time will vary, have a look on the packaging of the noodles to determine how long the noodles should be cooked for (time should be approx. 8 – 10 minutes).
Step 2: While the noodles are cooking you should prepare the sauce (alternatively you can prepare the sauce prior to cooking the noodles if you do not want to be under any time pressure). Place the grated ginger (1 tablespoon), soy sauce (2 1/2 tablespoons), vegetable oil (2 tablespoons), garlic paste (1 tablespoon), chili flakes (1/2 teaspoon) and sesame oil (1 tablespoon) in a small bowl and mix with a spoon until thoroughly combined. Taste it and see if you are happy with the flavouring.
Step 3: Prepare the chicken into bite sized pieces (I cut mine into strips of about 2cm by 4cm) and place onto a frying pan over medium heat. Cook the chicken until lightly golden on both sides – make sure the chicken is cooked through so to avoid food poisoning. *Note – if you are vegetarian prepare your tofu at this Step, or, if you are using both tofu and chicken in your recipe prepare both at this Step.
Step 4: The noodles should be cooked by now, drain them in a colander, place the noodles back into the frying pan with the cooked chicken and pour the sauce mixture over the chicken and noodles. With tongs toss the sauce throughout the noodles and chicken so that the sauce mixture is evenly coated through-out.
Step 5: Add all the vegetables and coriander/cilantro to the pan and cook until the vegetables are ready. *Note you can use any vegetables you want in this recipe – I used mushrooms and zucchini this time.
Step 6: Dish up the noodle mixture and sprinkle the sesame seeds on top.
Good the next day?
Ok i’ll be completely honest on this one. I PERSONALLY liked it more the next day cold, but that was not the general view in my household. I found that overnight the sauce had a chance to soak into the noodles so the flavour was stronger as a result and, as for it being cold rather than hot, that was partly my slackness, but I actually enjoyed it that way and will be doing it with leftovers in the future!
Vegetarian?
I would suggest swapping the chicken for tofu. I have made this recipe having swapped these two ingredients around and it tastes really nice. At Step 3, instead of preparing and making the chicken, cut up regular tofu (you don’t want to use silken tofu in this recipe) and cook it.
Enjoy a savoury main meal recipe from me for once!
x
P.S the recipe is adapted from blogger Kayln’s Kitchen and the original can be found here.
I’m going to try this when I go to the beach next week. I love cooking new recipes!! Thanks.
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It is such a simple quick recipe and full of flavour you’ll love it :). Enjoy the beach!
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Thank you – I will!!
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Yum! I can’t wait to try this recipe 😊
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You’ll like it! Let me know how it goes :).
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Ooh this looks so tasty 😀 definitely going to try this!
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It really is! It has such a fresh flavour!
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Another recipe to try, I am not the biggest fan of ginger myself so I will use the sauce sparingly when I get a chance to make it. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you! Exactly that is what is so good about the sauce – you can keep adding it to the noodles until you are happy with the strength of it :).
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Looks amazing!!
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Thank you Sudipti!
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Looks fantastic! And I am obsessed with ginger 🙂
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Then you will love this recipe! It is bursting with flavour :).
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I could never say no to sesame noodles and ginger, I love your noodles recipe.
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Thank you! I hope you enjoy the taste as much as you enjoy the look!
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This looks like something we would really love around here! Easy enough for a weeknight– I hope there’s leftovers for lunches… thanks.
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It’s great for a weeknight meal because it is so quick and easy to throw together and you can easily double the recipe to ensure leftovers for lunch. I hope you enjoy it :).
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Good news- I already love ginger! am always on the look out for recipes like this.. looks great 🙂
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I’m glad you are more of a fan of the ginger flavour than I am. You will surely like this recipe then :).
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That looks delicious!
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They are so tasty and easy to make :).
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This looks incredible! I’m definitely going to have to try making this!
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You should! It is also quite a quick and tasty meal and one little ‘helpers’ could be used in so they don’t get into trouble while you are cooking :).
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Haha, that’s true. And Bridger does love helping me out when I’m making food 🙂
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I love ginger. There can never be too much ginger. 😉 Both recipes look nice, but if I would do yours, the zucchini have to go out. I hate that. The only zucchini I can accept is pickled zucchini. You should try that once. 🙂
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A lot of people seem to be fans of ginger! Since posting this I have been playing around with ginger a lot more and I am starting to like it a lot more too :). You can definitely take the zucchini out of this recipe and still enjoy noodles!
I haven’t tried pickled zucchini so that has now been added to my food ‘to try’ list!
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Oh my god why did I click on your blog when I have to do grocery shopping and there’s nothing at hand but crackers and Nutella?
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I’m not sure anything with nutella is a bad option. Just means you’ll need to add this recipe to shopping list so there is no guilt :).
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oh, this is so not right–me looking at photos of this fantastic looking/sounding food. I want it NOW. Must make. Must make…..must make….Oh…….
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Haha thank you. These are so juicy and taste great. The colours are great though aren’t they?
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Yummmmmm–yes
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wow looks amazing
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Thanks AppetiteDeluxe!
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I recently have been embracing all things Ginger and thank you for this recipe. Looks nad sounds excellent.
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I’ve slowly been embracing ginger too and this recipe actually tipped me over the edge into … I think I will say it … ‘liking’ ginger. The recipe is really simple too. I hope you enjoy it if you give it a go :).
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Yumyumyum! This looks very tasty 🙂 This looks like a delicious recipe, and I’ll bet is tastes great cold, too.
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Yep it tastes great cold! Good guess! It’s good to make a double batch so that you have extra for the next day/s :).
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