Stir fried shrimp noodles (4 servings)

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Ingredients

  • 22 oz. Fresh wheat noodle/pasta (or 12 oz. dry noodles/pasta)
  • 2 lb. Napa cabbage (cleaned, washed, and cut into strips)
  • 1 carrots (cut into strips)
  • 1 large yellow onion (sliced)
  • 12 pieces Peeled fresh shrimps
  • 3 clove fresh garlic (crushed or sliced)
  • 3-5 sliced fresh ginger
  • 4 tbsp. canola oil
  • 2-3 tbsp. cooking wine
  • 2 table soy sauce
  • 1 tsp white sugar
  • 1 tbsp. salt
  • 2 of ½ tsp black pepper
  • 1.5-2 tbsp. Shiitake mushroom paste (original or spicy flavor)
  • 1 tbsp. olive oil/sesame oil
  • 3 scallions (choped)
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Step 1:
Clean and prep vegetables: Napa cabbage, carrots and onion should be cut in similar strip sizes, to accommodate length of the noodles (this meth applies to all Asian noodle dishes)

Step 2:
Marinate shrimp: Cleaned and deveined. Add them into a prepping bowl, 1 tbsp. cooking wine, 1 tbsp. soy sauce, 1 tsp white sugar, and a slice ginger. Leave it aside for 10-15 minutes.

Step 3:
Boil noodles: In a large pot, add ¾ pot full of water, bring it boil. Then add noodles into the boil water. Bring it boil again, then turn down the heat to median or lower, continue to cook for 3-4 minutes (If it is dye noodles, continue to cook for 7 minutes). Then strain out the hot water and raising off with cold water immediately and strain it again. Add drops of oil into the noodle right away and mix by hand gently, so they don’t stick to each other. Ready to set aside to stir fried.

Step 4:
Cook shrimp: Add 1 tbsp. canola oil into a non-stick wok/fried pan, once it is heated, add the shrimp and cook for just about a minute. Add another 1 tbsp. cooking wine during the minute cooking (Usage of cooking wine is to reduces unwanted fishy smell). Set aside.

Step 5:
Stir fried: Heat the fried pan with 3 tbsp. oil, add garlic, ginger and onion. Cook 2-3 minutes or until the onion is translucent. Then add Napa cabbage and carrots into the pan, quick stir for a minute or so. Then add the cooked noodles to the fried pan. Add soy sauce, salt, Shiitake mushroom past, then give a quick stir. Then add shrimp, give another quick stir. Taste the noodle to make sure there’s seasoning to your taste. It can be adjusted before serving. At last, add sprinkle ground black pepper and add sesame oil, green scallions and give one last toss. That will be it.

When do a mixed stir fried, always add hearty vegetables into fried pan first, after give a few minutes (sometime could be just a minute) then add leafy ones. Onion always is better to cook to translucent.

Garlic and ginger rule: Garlic is almost applied in all dishes. All the seafood dishes would recommend to use ginger. Always heat up one or both in oil before stir fried anything. Both of the ingredients are good to stir fried and marinating. Both can be prepped in minced, sliced and crushed forms.