Your Personal Recipe Book: Recipe 8: Vegetable Hakka Noodles

Since we showed you how to make the Gobi Manchurian Gravy in our previous post, we thought why not tell you how to make the main dish too so that you could prepare a sumptuous meal on a special occasion for yourself and your family!
   The chinese actually eat a much more bland version of chinese food in one region and a more spicy variant in the other, but from what I've heard, non taste better than the chinese we eat right here! Just some food for thought!
  Oh yeah! Noodles! Here's how to make some!

Ingredients Required: (serves 4 people)
Ginger- 1.5 inch piece
Garlic- 7-8 cloves
Oil- 1/4 cup
Noodles- 200 grams
Soy(a) Sauce- 3 tbsps
Vinegar- 2 tbsps
Green chillies- 2
Onions- 2 medium
Carrots- 2 medium
Capsicum- 1 large
Cabbage- 1/3rd of medium sized
Spring Onion- 7-8 sprigs
Salt- to taste
Pepper- to taste
Water- Loads
Beans, Zucchini, Bean sprouts(optional)

Method:

1. Boil up water in a large vessel and add the noodles to it when it begins to boil. Cook the noodles to desired softness. (It would be best if just cooked through)
2. Strain out the noodles and coat it with some oil and soy sauce and leave aside.
3. Heat up the remaining oil in a wok. Add to it chopped up/blitzed ginger, garlic and green chilly (chopped together will do fine)
4. Immediately add to it sliced onions and saute for a minute before adding salt and some pepper.
5. Proceed to add the carrots which are cut into julienne( narrow vertical strips of 2 inch length). Add salt and pepper and saute for 2 minutes more.
6. Next add the capsicum cut similar to the carrots. The aroma is mouth-watering by now! Keep tossing the veggies, add salt and pepper for the capsicum now.
7. Add the cabbage which is chopped along one direction only. Toss the veggies continuously and add salt again. Quickly add the chopped springs of the spring onion and the noodles to the wok now.
8. Keeping the flame high all along, now would be a good time to slow it down a bit and toss everything in the wok gently. Add the vinegar and keep tossing.
9. Serve hot with a pair of chopsticks (coz eating with a fork is way too mainstream)

So hope you enjoyed our chinese specials! Loads more coming up for you so do stay tuned!