Heart Healthy Chinese Chicken Noodles (Chow Mein) Recipe

Everyone loves Chinese food, right? But the problem is that the tastiest food always seems to carry a health warning – too much salt, saturated fat and sugar, and not enough freshly cooked vegetables. Eating healthy can be a powerful weapon in the fight against heart attack and stroke, so we have created this chow mein recipe to be especially healthy by turbo charging it with heart healthy superfoods.

There are many Chinese cooking recipes around, especially recipes for chinese chicken, but if you’re concerned about your heart health, why not try making this delicious lo fat chow mein recipe. This is an authentic chinese recipe, not to be confused with some bland, tasteless frozen chicken stir fry recipes that you may buy in from the grocery store. Chicken healthy doesn’t have to be chicken boring.

Why is this chinese recipe good for your heart health and lower blood pressure?

• we use one of the healthiest oils
• we use plenty of fresh garlic which has proven health giving properties
• we use fresh root ginger which helps to lower blood pressure
• we use fresh chillies which have amazing heart health giving properties
• chicken is one of the healthiest, low fat meats
• we use lo salt soy sauce
• we use lots of fresh healthy vegetables
• we use dried egg noodles, not greasy fried ones
• we use no added salt or sodium substitute

This is an easy chinese recipe which could pay big health dividends for the health conscious who also like their food to taste good.

If you want a vegetarian chinese recipe – just leave out the chicken, and use vegetable stock cubes!

Ingredients (serves 4 people)

You can see the main ingredients here, with the full listing below :

• 4 Tablespoons of Red Palm and Canola Oil
• 6 cloves of fresh garlic, finely chopped
• Ginger root (approx 1 inch, thinly sliced)
• 4 medium onions, coarsely chopped
• 2 large chicken legs
• 4 medium onions, coarsely chopped
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
• 2 tablespoons chinese cooking wine
• 1 teaspoon chinese five spice
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons reduced salt light soy sauce
• 2 chicken stock cubes
• 3 carrots sliced
• 2 corn cobs, corn removed
• 2 leeks, sliced
• 2 red chilli peppers, sliced thinly
• 1 green chilli pepper, sliced thinly
• 350 grams dried medium egg noodles

Cooking Instructions

Preparation time – Approx. 1 hour. Cooking time - 25 minutes.

Put the oil, chopped garlic and sliced ginger in the wok and stir for for 2 minutes on full heat:

Separately pan fry the chicken legs for a few minutes, then remove the chicken meat from the bone and chop it into small cubes or shred it.

Add the chopped chicken and the onions to the wok. Continue to stir for 3 minutes:

Reduce the heat to about two thirds, and add the sesame seeds, chinese cooking wine, chinese five spice, black pepper, soy sauce, and crumble the chicken stock cubes into the wok and stir for another 2 minutes.

Add the sliced carrot, corn, and leek and stir for a further 3 minutes:

Reduce the heat and add the sliced chillies, and stir for another 3 minutes.

Put the noodles into a large pan of unsalted boiling water and boil for 4 minutes, then drain:

Serving up time

Traditionally, chinese chicken noodles are served with the noodles and the chicken all mixed up together. But equally you can serve the chicken on a bed of noodles, which is the way we like to serve it. So you arrange the noodles arouond the edge of the bowl like this:

Then add the chicken to create the perfect heart friendly Chinese Chicken Chow Mein (don’t forget the candles!). Why not add a nice glass of ice cold, crisp Chilean Chardonnay (a small amount of alcohol can be beneficial to your heart health) as well!

We hope that you enjoy your meal.

You can check out these other heart healthy receipes here too – we’ve got a superb lamb jalfezi recipe, and a spicy spaghetti bolognese recipe for your enjoyment.

Bon Appetit.