Mushroom and Bean Chow Mein

Ingredients

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1 tbspn oil	1 garlic clove
½ green pepper	1 tspn ginger
30 gm onion (prepared weight)	1 chicken stock cube
30 gm carrot (prepared weight)	1 tspn horseradish sauce
30 gm green beans	2 tbspn soy sauce
100 gm button mushrooms	1 small tin pineapple pieces
100 gm beans (pinto, borlotti etc)	1 block egg noodles

Preparation

Chop the onion, carrot and green pepper into small pieces.
Slice the button mushrooms into 4 pieces.
Finely chop the ginger.
Finely chop the garlic.
Cook the noodles as shown on packet.

Cooking

Heat the oil in a wok over a high heat.
Stir fry the onion, carrot and green beans for 3 min.
Add the ginger and garlic and stir fry for 1 min.
Add the mushrooms, horseradish sauce, stock cube and some water and cook for 2 min.
Add beans, soy sauce, 100 ml pineapple juice and several pineapple pieces and cook for 2 min.
Add the cooked noodles, stir well and heat through.

Notes

Any combination of vegetables can be used such as sugar snap peas, mangetout, baby corn but try to get a variety of colours. A vegetarian meal can be made by using a vegetable instead of chicken stock cube. If the sauce needs thickening stir in 1 tspn of cornflour. Any beans of choice can be used.

The main ingredients

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