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Plate of vegan noodles prepared according to Chinese family recipe, but vegan.

Vegan noodles according to Chinese family recipe

Don't sulk, have a nice wok with this vegan noodles. As a child, I loved this dish. On birthdays and family parties, there was a big bowl for a long life. But my favourite noodles were not vegetarian and certainly not vegan. And so I started veganising 'my' Chinese noodles. Here's to a long(er) life! At least for the animals...
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Preparation 30 minutes
Preparation 15 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course main course
Cuisine Chinese
Servings 4 persons

Kitchenware

  • large pan for cooking noodles
  • cutting board
  • knife
  • colander
  • wok
  • optional trays for storing sliced vegetables

Ingredients
  

  • 200 gr thin noodles 'wok noodles', noodles, egg noodles, vegan noodles, all fine
  • 1 el light soy sauce
  • 1 el dark soy sauce
  • 1 el (vegan) oyster sauce
  • 1 fluorescent sugar cane, palm, soft sugar or white sugar
  • 1 fluorescent sesame oil
  • 2 spring onions
  • 1 onion
  • 125 gr bean sprouts
  • 1 el water

Instructions
 

Preparation

    Cutting vegetables

    • Chop the onion and place in a bowl.
    • Cut a small piece off the bottom of the spring onions. Cut the spring onions into 5 equal parts. Place the white and white-green parts with the shredded onion in the bowl. And set the green parts aside. Fun fact: put the butt of the spring onion in a cup of water or stick it in the ground. A new spring onion will grow from this again!

    Cooking noodles

    • Bring a large pan of water to the boil.
    • Cook the noodles for 2 minutes until tender, so that you can easily pull it off with two forks and it is al dente.
    • Drain the noodles in a colander and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking.
    • Carefully pull the noodles apart with forks.
    • Set the noodles aside in a colander to drain.

    Sauce preparation

    • In a bowl, mix the light & dark soya sauce, (vegan) oyster sauce, sugar and water.
    • Stir until the sugar is dissolved.

    Wokken

    • In a wok, or large pan, bring oil to a high temperature.
    • Fry the onion and white spring onion parts for a minute, remove from the wok and set aside again.
    • Bring some new oil to high temperature.
    • Spread the noodles over the wok, making as much contact with the pan as possible.
    • Fry the noodles hard in the wok for 4 minutes. Some pieces of noodles may turn (golden) brown, this is the intention!
    • Carefully check that the underside is nicely crisped.
    •  Now carefully turn the noodles over in the wok with two spatulas.
    • Add some extra oil by going along the edge of the wok.
    • Let the noodles fry for another 4 minutes.
    •  Add the bean sprouts to the wok and slide under the noodles for 60 seconds.
    • Add the onion, white spring onion pieces, green spring onion and sauce to the wok.
    • Fry everything on high heat for another 1 minute.
    • Add the sesame oil.
    • Serve and eat immediately, so the fried noodles are still nice and crispy.
    Keyword noodles, noodles, vegetarian, vegan, noodles, Asian food