Beef Chow Mein - great beef mince noodle recipe!
Recipe video above. The beef mince version of everybody's favourite Chicken Chow Mein - great way to cook up ground beef with noodles. Economical and no meat chopping required, with plenty of hidden vegetables so it's a complete dinner! Scrambling up an egg with the beef is a neat trick to make the beef cling to the noodles better.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 200g/ 7 oz chow mein noodles (, or other thin yellow egg noodles or 3 ramen cakes (Note 1))
- 1 1/2 tbsp canola oil
- 2 garlic cloves (, finely minced)
- 200g/ 7 oz beef mince / ground beef ((any fat %))
- 3 green onion stems (, cut into 5cm/2" lengths, white and green parts separated)
- 1 egg
- 2 cups green cabbage (, finely sliced (or Chinese cabbage))
- 1 carrot (, peeled, cut into thin batons)
- 1 heaped cups bean sprouts ((~ 75g / 2 1/2 oz) (Note 5 - storage tip))
- 1 1/2 tbsp light soy sauce (or all-purpose soy sauce (Note 2))
- 1 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce ((Note 2))
- 1 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce ((Note 3))
- 1 1/2 tbsp Chinese cooking wine ((Shaoxing) (Note 4))
- 1 1/2 tsp white sugar
- Pinch white pepper
- 1 1/2 tsp cornflour / cornstarch
- 3 tbsp water
Instructions
- 1
Sauce - Mix ingredients in a small bowl then set aside. Some is used to flavour the beef, then the rest for the noodles.
- 2
Sauce thickener (cornflour slurry) - Mix the cornflour / cornstarch and water in a separate small bowl.
- 3
Prepare noodles per packet directions then drain.
- 4
Cook beef - Heat the oil in a large non-stick pan over high heat. Cook garlic for 10 seconds, then add the beef and cook until you can no longer see pink. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons of the Sauce and the white part of the green onions. Cook for another 2 minutes to get the beef nicely caramelised.
- 5
Finish sauce - Mix the cornflour slurry into the remaining sauce.
- 6
Egg - Add the egg into the pan then mix it through the beef, it will sort of scramble. Egg makes the beef stick to the noodles better!
- 7
Cabbage & carrot - When the egg is mostly cooked, add the carrot and cabbage. Cook for 1 minute until cabbage starts to wilt.
- 8
Sauce & noodles - Give the sauce a quick mix. Add the bean sprouts, noodles and sauce into the pan. Toss well for 1 minute or until sauce is dispersed through the noodles. Add green part of green onions. Toss for another 1 minute.
- 9
Serve - Divide between bowls and serve!