Moist Noodles with Chicken Breast

Name: Moist Noodles with Chicken Breast
Yield: Serves 2 as Lunch
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 45 ml (3 tbsp) peanut or vegetable oil; 225 g (8 oz) dried noodles (see introduction); 3 spring onions, trimmed and cut into 3.5 cm (1½ in) sections, white and green parts separated; 5 ml (1 tsp) Shaoxing wine or medium dry sherry; 300 ml (10 fl oz/1¼ cups) chicken stock; 7.5 ml (1½ tsp) salt; 5 ml (1 tsp) ginger juice; 275–350 g (10–12 oz) Chinese celery cabbage (Chinese leaves) cut crossways into 6 mm (¼ in) strips; 2 chicken breast fillets, 170–225 g (6–8 oz); 2 thick slices ginger, peeled

Preparation info

Serves
2
as Lunch

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Food of China

By Yan-Kit So

Published 1992

About

If You can find noodles that are white in appearance and labelled ‘Shanghai Noodles’ – they are available – use them. Otherwise, use other white ones, or Italian tagliatelle.

Ingredients

2 chicken breast fillets, 170–225 g (6–8 oz)
7.5 ml (

Asia
China
Lunch
Main course

Method

Put the chicken on a heatproof dish with raised sides. Rub 5 ml (1 tsp) of the salt, the ginger juice and the wine or sherry over the chicken. Place the dish in a