Everyone loves a Pot Noodle and everyone knows that they really shouldn’t! With this recipe you can easily and cheaply make your own much healthier version. And if you join a community food garden, all the veggies grow free!
Ingredients
- 1 packet of noodles (fine or medium egg noodles or rice noodles)
- 6 oz sliced vegetables (eg green beans, mange tout, broccoli, peas, cauliflower ,carrots)
- ½ large onion – sliced
- 2/3 cloves of chopped garlic
- 1 green chilli sliced finely –
- oil for stir frying
- vegetable stock cube
Method
- Soften the noodles in hot vegetable stock (made with the stock cube)
- Add 1 tablespoon of oil to a frying pan (or a wok if you have one) and heat until hot (CAREFUL!)
- Add the onions, chilli and garlic and stir fry for 1 min
- Add the sliced vegetables, starting with harder vegetables, eg carrots
- Stir continuously until vegetables cooked but still crunchy
- Add noodles which by now will have absorbed the stock
- Mix thoroughly and eat and enjoy
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While the noodles are great on their own, they can be served with a lovely piece of steamed fish. Here’s how.
Ingredients:
- 1 piece of fish (per person)
- 2 cloves garlic – finely chopped
- 1 green chilli
- 2 spring onions – chopped, including green stems
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Method
- Put the fish in pan and cover with cold water
- Bring to a fast simmer,
- Take off the heat and allow to cook (10 mins)
- Remove fish from water and transfer to warm serving dish
- With care, remove the skin from fish
- Sprinkle chopped ingredients over the cooked fish
