Noodles Recipe | Veg Noodles
This delicious Veg Noodles recipe follows a Chinese style preparation. It involves stir-frying noodles with an abundance of mixed vegetables, seasoned with soy sauce, ginger, garlic, and celery.
Ingredients
For Cooking Noodles
- 200 grams noodles – whole wheat or plain flour
- 5 cups water
- ½ teaspoon oil
- ½ teaspoon salt
Other Ingredients
- 1 cup shredded cabbage
- ½ cup shredded carrots or 1 medium to large carrot
- ⅓ cup chopped spring onions (scallions) or 2 to 3 small to medium-sized spring onions
- 8 to 10 french beans – thinly sliced diagonally or finely chopped
- ⅓ cup sliced capsicum (green bell pepper) or 1 small to medium-sized
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic or 3 to 4 small to medium-sized
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger or 1 inch ginger
- 1 to 2 tablespoon soy sauce or as required
- 1 to 2 teaspoons finely chopped celery or 1 teaspoon chopped coriander leaves – optional
- 2 to 3 tablespoons toasted sesame oil – can use sunflower oil or any neutral oil
- salt as required
- crushed black pepper as required
- 1 teaspoon rice vinegar or mirin or white vinegar
Instructions
Cooking Noodles
- First boil water in a pan with salt and oil.
- Add noodles to the boiling water and cook them till they are just cooked or al dente.
- While noodles are cooking, rinse and chop the vegetables.
- Once noodles are cooked al dente, drain them in a colander or sieve.
- Then rinse noodles in fresh water by placing the colander or sieve under fresh tap water.
- Drain all the water and set aside.
Making Veg Noodles
- Heat oil in a wok or pan.
- First add the garlic and ginger and stir fry or sauté on low to medium-low heat for some seconds.
- Increase the heat to a high and add the chopped spring onions.
- Keep on stirring continuously and stir fry the onions till they become translucent.
- Add the veggies – carrots, capsicum and french beans.
- Continue to toss and stir fry on a high flame till the veggies are almost cooked.
- Use a pan with handles as its better to lift it while tossing.
- You can also decrease the flame if the heat becomes too much too handle and then stir fry the veggies on a medium flame.
- Some crunch should be there in the vegetables, so don’t cook the vegetables till they become completely soft.
- Add the soy sauce, celery, salt and pepper. Mix well.
- Add cooked noodles. Keep on tossing and stirring till the veggies are mixed well with noodles for a minute or two. Switch off the heat.
- Check the taste and add more salt, black pepper or soy sauce if required to the stir-fried veg noodles.
Serving Suggestions
- Serve the veg noodles hot or warm as it is or with some black bean sauce or tomato sauce.
- You can also enjoy this Chinese style veggie noodles with Veg Manchurian, Gobi Manchurian, Chilli Paneer or Paneer Manchurian.
Nutrition
Calories: 358kcalCarbohydrates: 58gProtein: 12gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 1160mgPotassium: 407mgFiber: 2gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 4170IUVitamin C: 25mgCalcium: 83mgIron: 3mg
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