Beef Chow Mein
Green
An exciting and fun beef chow mein that the kids will love.
Ingredients
- Ingredient
- Amount
- Olive oil
- ½ tbsp
- Garlic cloves
- 2 peeled and crushed
- Onion
- 1 medium sliced
- Lean beef mince
- 400g
- Curry powder
- 1 tbsp
- Salt reduced chicken or beef stock
- 2 tsp
- Water
- 1 ½ cups
- Salt reduced soy sauce
- 2 tbsp
- Carrot
- 1 finely diced
- Celery
- 1 stalk finely diced
- Fresh greens (beans, broccoli)
- 1 – 2 cups
- Green cabbage
- 1/4
- Dried noodles
- 125g (250g if using large flat rice noodles)
This is a School Lunch Project Menu item, best served “Fruit”.
Method
- Put the saucepan over medium heat and add oil.
- Add the onion and cook, stirring frequently until it has started to brown.
- Turn the heat up to high and add the garlic and cook until it starts to turn golden.
- Return the heat to medium and add the beef mince. Cook, stirring frequently, breaking up any lumps that form with your spoon until evenly browned.
- Add the curry powder and chicken stock and cook until fragrant.
- Add the celery, carrot, 1/2 cup water and soy sauce and cook for five minutes, until the vegetables are tender and the liquid in the pan has evaporated by half.
- Add the mixed green vegetables and cabbage and cook until the vegetables are soft and wilted.
- Add the remaining 1 cup water and noodles and cook until they are soft and have absorbed the remainder of the liquid in the pot.
^Use what is in season and available to you, for example broccoli, peas, beans or zucchini. *Use Wombok (Chinese cabbage), green or red cabbage depending on availability.
Serves: 6
This recipe has been produced for the School Lunch Program by School Food Matters in partnership with Loaves and Fishes Tasmania and Department of Health Tasmania Dietitians.
Feel free to share with this acknowledgement.
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