How to Cook Chicken Pad See Ew
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Ingredients needed to make Chicken Pad See Ew:
- 1 (14 oz) wide rice noodles, dried
- 2 cups cooked chicken, sliced
- 2 large eggs
- 6 medium garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1 lb Chinese broccoli
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- ¼ cup dark soy sauce
- 5 tbsp vegetables oil
- 4 tsp granulated sugar
Cooking instructions for Chicken Pad See Ew:
- Fill a heat-proof bowl with boiling water and drop in the noodles.
- Set aside for about 8-10 minutes to let them soak until they separate from each other and become flexible but doesn’t soften; drain them in a colander and keep aside.
- Fill a large pot with water and stir in a dash of salt until it dissolves.
- Heat the salted water until it starts boiling.
- Fill half of a bowl with water and plop in several ice cubes to fill up the other half to make an ice water bath; set aside.
- Chop the broccoli into 1’’ thick chunks and toss them into the boiling water to blanch for about 3 minutes, or until the leaves wilt and the stems soften slightly.
- Drain them out into the ice water bath and leave them there until they turn cold; tip them into a colander to drain and keep aside.
- Drizzle 4 tbsp oil in a large wok and het it over moderately high heat, until it starts shimmering.
- Throw in the garlic and sauté briskly for about a minute or until it changes colour slightly.
- Dump the noodles into it, followed by the broccoli as well as meat and drizzle both kinds of soy sauces into the mixture.
- Sprinkle the sugar into the wok and toss them all together until they are distributed evenly throughout the noodles.
- Cook for about 3 minutes or until they are heated through and shift them to a side of the wok.
- Pour in rest of the oil and pop the cracked eggs into it.
- Cook them for a couple of minutes, while stirring vigorously and then cook the scrambled eggs undisturbed for another 3 minutes.
- Stir them into the noodles and cook for another minute.
- Pile them up onto serving plates and serve right away.
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