Chicken chow mein

Name: Chicken chow mein
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Chinese-inspired
Ingredients: 5 cm ginger; 2 pc garlic clove; ½ pc red chilli; 1 pc chicken breast; 2 pc spring onion; 15 g fresh coriander; 1 pc bok choy; 4 pc shiitake mushrooms; 100 g medium egg noodles; 1 tbsp groundnut oil; 1 tsp cornflour; 220 g water chestnuts (canned); 3 tbsp low-salt soy sauce; 1 pc lime

Tender chicken stir-fried with ginger, garlic, chilli, bok choi and egg noodles, then glossy-sauced with soy, cornflour and lime.

20 min 520 kcal/serving serves 2

520kcal34gprotein76gcarbs11gfat

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🫚ginger

🧄garlic clove

🌶️red chilli

🍗chicken breast

🧅spring onion

🌿fresh coriander

🥬bok choy

🍄shiitake mushrooms

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British chef and food writer known for making everyday home cooking accessible

Jamie Oliver is a British chef, restaurateur, and bestselling food writer who rose to prominence with the television series The Naked Chef in the late 1990s. He has since become one of the UK's most recognisable cooking personalities, known for campaigning on food education and school meals alongside a prolific output of cookbooks and TV shows.

His cooking centres on simple, approachable techniques and readily available ingredients, often built around quick assembly and bold, familiar flavours rather than technical precision. He draws widely on global cuisines, from Thai curries to Mexican-style dishes to Chinese stir-fries, typically adapting them into streamlined versions suited to a weeknight kitchen. Fresh herbs, citrus, and punchy sauces feature heavily, and his recipes tend to favour speed and big flavour over strict authenticity.

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