Lower Blood Pressure

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.

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