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Nigella Lawson’s Noodles with Mushrooms and Mangetouts

by Nigella Lawson from How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food

Serves 4-6

Nigella Lawson’s simple recipe for stir-fried noodles with mushrooms is the ultimate midweek meal – quick, tasty and as easy as can be and perfect if you love Asian flavours.

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Introduction

This is as simple a stir-fry as you could get, but – in my book – all the better for it. And, of course, you can build on as you wish. While it’s wonderful as is for a side, do add more mushrooms and mangetouts if you need it to be a main. Or, indeed, add prawns chicken, or whatever else you like.

I have a couple of notes, before I let you get on and cook. First, if you’re unsure how mild the chillies you have actually are, maybe use two rather than the four stipulated below. Finally, yes, the portions are generous here, but it is so very good cold the next day, tossed with perhaps a few more drops of sesame oil and soy and some sesame seeds.

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Ingredients

250gdried egg noodles
2 tbspvegetable oil
1 tspsesame oil
4mild red chillies, approx. 75g in weight, deseeded and chopped
6spring onions, chopped into approx1cm lengths
250gchestnut or shitake mushrooms, destalked and sliced
100gmangetouts, roughly chopped (in half or 3 pieces each)
2 tbspsoy sauce, plus more to taste
4 tbspfreshly chopped coriander

Method

  1. Boil the noodles in salted water according to the instructions on the packet, then drain, rinse in cold water and leave in a colander in the sink.

  2. Heat the oils in a wok or very large frying pan and stir-fry the chilli and spring onion for a minute, add the mushrooms and stir-fry for another two minutes. Then add, stirring furiously, the mangetouts. Give them a minute, then add the drained noodles, lifting them up in the pan and stirring well so all is mixed in together, pouring in a couple of tablespoons soy as you do so. Add half the coriander, toss well again, then turn out into a large bowl. Sprinkle with more coriander to serve.

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