Here comes another family favourite. This time the recipe originated in China. I can't tell how close to the original this is though. In the deep dark past we would sometimes get some Chinese food from a Chinese take-away, back in the day when we still lived in The Netherlands. I was never a big fan of Chinese take-away as I never liked the oily flavour of most things. Though there was the odd Chinese restaurant that was really good. Usually those were serving foods from a particular ethnicity, such as Mongolian, which is really great food.
Often we would have Fu yung hai with our take-away. It was one of the dishes that was tasty. But as I learned more and more about healthy foods, I started wanting better versions of it. At first I tried to make it with a supermarket packet. It didn't do it for me, so I started experimenting with making it from scratch. The below is the result. Mind you I don't make it exactly the same every time. I still experiment with food, sometimes I do put grated carrots in there, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I put sweet pointy pepper in there, sometimes I don't. I don't really do quantities very well. I just do something, so you can totally divert from the quantities I have given here, those are what I used today, any other time it will likely be different. This recipe is flexible :-)
The noodles
The mix of chicken, vegetables and eggs
The sweet and sour sauce
All of it together on a plate.
Origin:China
Difficulty: easy
Time: 45 minutes
Serves: 6
Traditional, Paleo*
Equipment:
- pans
- kitchen utensils.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of chicken (pasture raised)
- 4 grated organic carrots
- 2 sliced organic sweet pointy pepper
- 2 large organic onions, in half rings
- 500 grams sliced organic mushrooms
- fish sauce
- shoyu
- ginger powder
- 1 organic garlic clove
- coconut oil
- 10 eggs
- 500 grams (home made) egg noodles or 500 grams courgette noodles (grated on the largest setting of the kitchen machine)
- raw honey
- raw apple cider vinegar
- organic tomato paste
- salt and pepper to taste
Things to do ahead:
- 1 day ahead: make the egg noodles
- 1 day ahead (optional): cut meat and vegetables
Directions:
- Cut the chicken in cubes, cut the vegetables.
- Put coconut oil in the pan, fry the chicken.
- Add the vegetables
- Add the spices, fish sauce and shoyu
- When all is nicely fried, add the eggs and let them cook until firm.
- During the above cook up the noodles until they are soft.
- For the sweet and sour sauce mix honey, apple cider vinegar and tomato paste until you have the taste you like.
- Put it on a plate and yum!
Enjoy!
* To make this a Paleo dish, substitute the egg noodles with courgette noodles.
It is possible to make this recipe GAPS legal. Omit the Shoyu and substitute the egg noodles with courgette noodles.
It is possible to make this recipe GAPS legal. Omit the Shoyu and substitute the egg noodles with courgette noodles.