Personally, I would pre-marinate the strips of chicken in Shaoxin Rice Wine (or dry sherry as a substitute), soy sauce, pepper and cornflour - known as 'silking'. Makes the meat more tender and it melts in the mouth... works great with turkey, which tends to be generally dryer & tougher than chicken, but is a lot cheaper! *- Great Britain -*
tapdancerman Good point. I'm wondering why he didnt do something like that - I dont think the chicken will have much flavour the way he did it. If chow means fried shouldnt he fry the noodles at the start?
7 years ago, this is the first dish I ever cook and I remember how proud I was being able to stir fry noodles. Tq jamie for this simple recipe and being an excellent teacher.
as a chinese i think this is more of a westernized chow mein, or just jamie oliver's chow mein as title, but i would definitely enjoy this version too!
Too bad Jamie didn't provide a list/quantity of ingredients for the dish. Grab a tablet and start watching and writing. Would gave been so easy to list on this page.
I leave out the boiled noodles, add bamboo shoots, and bean sprouts. Serve over fried chow mein noodles. If you want it to taste like take out, don't forget the MSG.
What if I made spaghetti and squeeze a lemon in it. Would you still feel the same way? Or how about fry up some steaks and pour fish sauce over it as seasoning? I pretty sure you would bitch too. We Chinese do not squeeze a fucking lemon into our chow mein. Pad Thai yes. Chow mein hell no.
for the record, i squeeze lemon/lime on my spaghetti all the time. i love it. fish sauce on steak in an interesting idea. i understand what he is doing isn't exactly traditional. but give it a try (or not), you might like it. its food! experiment and enjoy it.
I found this so easy to cook when following the video!! To everyone that says its bad Chinese cooking, it’s just a simplified version that Jamie has offered. If it was complicated wouldn’t have made it because there is too much faff. This took me 15 mins and tasted absolutely beautiful. I will defiantly be looking up more videos recipes that I can follow. Thanks Jamie!!! x
During preparation, make sure you waste the majority of the Ginger you bought....Use a spoon people the skin comes off VERY easily and just peel and cut off what you need. No need to waste so much of it.
+MaZEEZaM Probably done with a sharp knife for neat precise television appeal. Also probably because ginger costs pennies and isn't something that most people would be bothered to save to that extent. I use a normal potato peeler for ginger and if I have left over it freezes perfectly.
People complaining that it's not the same way Chinese cook thier stir-fry noodles but it was never meant to be the authentic one . It's Jamie's version and knowing him he likes to make more healthier and fresher version .
Reading all the complaints on this video, I figured the result would be a mess. Instead it looks delicious. What did Jamie Oliver do to make so many people angry lol
Put it to you this way. This recipe for chow mein is analogous to saying I'm going to make a grilled burger on brioche, and then you watch me sautee a meatball in ketchup and chicken gravy for some reason, and put it on sandwich bread toast. It might be delicious, but it is not remotely what I said it would be. If he called it "sautéed chicken and noodles", it would be fine. This more closely resembles an Italian dish than chow mein.
I think it looks delicious! There is an Oriental grocery market near my home and I can (thank God!) find everything needed there. I'm going to try this. Thanks, Jamie Oliver. :) I think you're a spectacular Chef!
You must marinate the meat first, at least 30min before cooking. The marinate: Soy sauce, cooking rice wine, 2 drops of sesame oil, rice starch, mix meat in and let cool. In Chinese cooking, you always start with stir-frying the "flavor ingredients" such as scallions/garlic/onions/ginger/chilli. This is so the flavors will be in the oil in the pan and everything else goes in will absorb all the flavors better. And, your noodles were in the water too long. Chinese cooking is VERY sophisticated..
I wanted to test out this recipe. So I cooked it 3 times just to make sure I did it correctly. The first time it end up in the garbage. 1 bite and it was sour and tasted watery. The second time, I used less lime and it still tasted like crap. So 3 times a charm I right? Wrong... I don't know what Chinese food you are eating Jaime, but this shit is shit. I went to a local Chinese restaurant and showed him this video. The chef laughed so hard he had tears in his eyes.
Ryan Do Chinese seldom use lime or lemon. Don’t add so much soya sauce, add some sugar, dash of oyster sauce, chicken stock or powder, and this dish should taste better. Shred some carrots, dice some chestnuts (not the whole tin or just leave it out) slice some mushrooms, add prawns.
Why are people so pissed that this isn't traditional? It tastes good so who cares. It honestly tastes better than the chinese take-outs I've been to. That being said I don't think this trumps the original recipe but it's a damn load better than the shit you get served at most of those restaurants. It has a western twist to it much like the California roll with sushi...
Perhaps he's trying to simplify it for the British public, but how a Chinese dish is prepped & cooked dictate the flavors/taste. Where I'm coming from is that each cuisine should have its own distinctive flavors, he's making this dish like pasta. I'm not dissing Jamie, I love his shows. But I think he should educate the public on the basics like he did with steaks/Italian & French dishes, so people who wish to follow this will know how to create the different flavors and not just another dish.
Only problem I see is the chicken. Typically in Chinese cooking the meat is coated with salt, sugar, white pepper (MSG), then an egg white or two (depending on how much protein you're using), mix it up then add either flour or corn starch to coat the meat. From there you either blanch it in water or give it a quick blanch in some hot oil. You don't want to cook the meat through, the point is to finish it in the stir fry. If you do this with your protein it will taste like what you're used to eating at Chinese carry outs. Good luck suckers!
Hector Lamar Some say it is bad (MSG) and other studies say it isn't. Either add it or don't add it. And don't be a grammar Nazi unless there is serious problem reading another's writings.
Many mistakes in this recipe, but the biggest one would be never adding cornstarch directly in the food... You thicken the sauce with a corn or potato starch slurry at the end.
Regardless what he names this dish, its tasty. The fact that he used "Chow Mien" to describe it at the beginning seems to have offended a few. How about, "excellent bok choi noodles" Use taste buds, not nomenclature !! :)
To all the Asians here replying on this video: make a video of your own instead of reply on video's with such a inappropriate sense of superiority just because you're Asian. Jeez. Am I do the same thing to video recipes of South American food just because I have South American roots? No, because I don't care about the authenticity of food, I just love food! My fucking lord.
Who freaking add corn starch (or any kind of starch) for a noodle dish without dissolving it in the water first? I don't care whatever you people say, that's not chow mein.
Actually the first step you need do is to heat the pan, then heat the oil till smoke emerge, then you put the ginger and fry it a little bit in order to push the flavor of the ginger into the oil and the whole dishes later. Those vegetable are not side dishes, putting them into the wok at half way just waste it totally!
yeh but he never said hes making authentic traditional chinese chicken chow mein, he's obviously just doing a more approachable version for the british public.
look ive watched him for yrs an enjoy what he does. very talented an skilled. use to be on food network for awhile too if you all remember. now there are only a few Add to dictionary I don't agree with for this delicious dish
Bean sprouts , velvet the chicken first ? Tbs oyster sauce too ! Noodles should be pre cooked and cold . Also a little finish with sesame oil ! Job done ! Wow I should be a chef ; give me a job Jamie , I'll show you how to cook !
Personally, I would pre-marinate the strips of chicken in Shaoxin Rice Wine (or dry sherry as a substitute), soy sauce, pepper and cornflour - known as 'silking'. Makes the meat more tender and it melts in the mouth... works great with turkey, which tends to be generally dryer & tougher than chicken, but is a lot cheaper!
*- Great Britain -*
tapdancerman Good point. I'm wondering why he didnt do something like that - I dont think the chicken will have much flavour the way he did it. If chow means fried shouldnt he fry the noodles at the start?
+tapdancerman Turkey is FAR more expensive than chicken here in Australia.
I would add ginger in that marinade
Tapdancerman, totally agree and also add to that a large pinch of baking soda it makes all the difference.
James Haydon The baking soda works to tenderize, so marinated and worked into the meat it makes it juicy and tender.
7 years ago, this is the first dish I ever cook and I remember how proud I was being able to stir fry noodles. Tq jamie for this simple recipe and being an excellent teacher.
as a chinese i think this is more of a westernized chow mein, or just jamie oliver's chow mein as title, but i would definitely enjoy this version too!
This is how I cook noodles!!!!.
I just love the way Jamie cook food....
Delicious!! Dig in,I'm hungry!!!
Too bad Jamie didn't provide a list/quantity of ingredients for the dish. Grab a tablet and start watching and writing. Would gave been so easy to list on this page.
I think it’s brilliant the way Jamie has made it
I like Jamie Oliver's version of Chicken Chow Mein. Looks delicious. Well done, Jamie.
Jamie, i made my first ever stir fry on saturday and i LOVED it! Im going to try out this recipe today! Thanks :)
Thank you!
this is an amazingly simple and delicious recipe... just made it and it came out so well.
thank you Jamie !!!
No
Jamie is disrespecting Asian bro
That's what you get served in Chinatowns around the world - Gwai Lo Chinese food.
So in case you can get the traditional one easily, be grateful!
Made this tonight and it was delish. Excited to try more recipes :)
YUM-MO!!! Can’t wait to try this Jamie!! I would get those Crunchy Skinny Rice noodles & put in top!!🥢💓💓💓🙌🙌🙌🥰😋
please change your ingredients before cooking never follow his style
Lovely what you said at the end. Very generous. I've been cooking all my life like you.
I leave out the boiled noodles, add bamboo shoots, and bean sprouts. Serve over fried chow mein noodles. If you want it to taste like take out, don't forget the MSG.
FUIYOOH.
jamie doesn´t use chicken for his dish he uses "lovely chicken" :D
We enjoyed it thanks Jamie
To all the people complaining: this is his version of chow mein. If you like it, good; if you don't, stop complaining and do it your way.
What if I made spaghetti and squeeze a lemon in it. Would you still feel the same way? Or how about fry up some steaks and pour fish sauce over it as seasoning? I pretty sure you would bitch too.
We Chinese do not squeeze a fucking lemon into our chow mein. Pad Thai yes. Chow mein hell no.
for the record, i squeeze lemon/lime on my spaghetti all the time. i love it. fish sauce on steak in an interesting idea.
i understand what he is doing isn't exactly traditional. but give it a try (or not), you might like it. its food! experiment and enjoy it.
im a huge fan jamie. i wish you visit philippines soon!!!
I really enjoyed this demonstration. Will definitely try this. Thank you.
I found this so easy to cook when following the video!! To everyone that says its bad Chinese cooking, it’s just a simplified version that Jamie has offered. If it was complicated wouldn’t have made it because there is too much faff. This took me 15 mins and tasted absolutely beautiful. I will defiantly be looking up more videos recipes that I can follow. Thanks Jamie!!! x
YUM😀have you ever seen little Oliver's cookbook?please tell me what you think😊
I love ur cooking and your hair style. ..you look awesome in pink shirt.
im am difnatly goin to try ths recipe thnx jamie
Thank you for the tricks and tips! My stir fry attempt was a success!!
so he recoded this with a frying pan
Like he said, he recoded this with a wok. The wok has this nice shape so you can toss the video and recode it very fast.
so much banta
It is not a frying pan is a WOK
LOOOL
It's your eyes that are at fault here.....er.....and mine as well......Oh, there's my coat.
The best chow mein I ever tasted by a mile.
Thanks Jamie. :]
During preparation, make sure you waste the majority of the Ginger you bought....Use a spoon people the skin comes off VERY easily and just peel and cut off what you need. No need to waste so much of it.
+MaZEEZaM Probably done with a sharp knife for neat precise television appeal. Also probably because ginger costs pennies and isn't something that most people would be bothered to save to that extent. I use a normal potato peeler for ginger and if I have left over it freezes perfectly.
He always uses it for tea
Chinese don’t Evan take the skin off and tbh they are right the skin contains a lot of nutrition
People complaining that it's not the same way Chinese cook thier stir-fry noodles but it was never meant to be the authentic one . It's Jamie's version and knowing him he likes to make more healthier and fresher version .
You call those fresh?
I love chowmein!!!
this is real chowmein.
Reading all the complaints on this video, I figured the result would be a mess. Instead it looks delicious. What did Jamie Oliver do to make so many people angry lol
Put it to you this way. This recipe for chow mein is analogous to saying I'm going to make a grilled burger on brioche, and then you watch me sautee a meatball in ketchup and chicken gravy for some reason, and put it on sandwich bread toast. It might be delicious, but it is not remotely what I said it would be. If he called it "sautéed chicken and noodles", it would be fine. This more closely resembles an Italian dish than chow mein.
I want to make this it looks yummy. Thank you sir for sharing I am going to have to do it this weekend.
Great work Jamie :)
I just made a stir fry like this last week. I added shrimp rather than chicken.
I think it looks delicious! There is an Oriental grocery market near my home and I can (thank God!) find everything needed there. I'm going to try this. Thanks, Jamie Oliver. :) I think you're a spectacular Chef!
All twelve pixels of this video looked very tasty!
This is dinner tonight! Dang this is awesome! I hate bok choy and water chestnuts....lol...but this will change my mind I'm sure.... :)
this guy adds lime to everything
surprised he didn't add thyme
The comments omg... Im chinese but I dont care; I like this version too.
You must marinate the meat first, at least 30min before cooking. The marinate: Soy sauce, cooking rice wine, 2 drops of sesame oil, rice starch, mix meat in and let cool. In Chinese cooking, you always start with stir-frying the "flavor ingredients" such as scallions/garlic/onions/ginger/chilli. This is so the flavors will be in the oil in the pan and everything else goes in will absorb all the flavors better. And, your noodles were in the water too long. Chinese cooking is VERY sophisticated..
I have never seen him make a good recipe
Receta español, se le agradece..
2:15
lol If I do this and my mom saw it, she will probably kill me.
I wanted to test out this recipe. So I cooked it 3 times just to make sure I did it correctly. The first time it end up in the garbage. 1 bite and it was sour and tasted watery. The second time, I used less lime and it still tasted like crap. So 3 times a charm I right? Wrong... I don't know what Chinese food you are eating Jaime, but this shit is shit. I went to a local Chinese restaurant and showed him this video. The chef laughed so hard he had tears in his eyes.
Ryan Do Chinese seldom use lime or lemon. Don’t add so much soya sauce, add some sugar, dash of oyster sauce, chicken stock or powder, and this dish should taste better. Shred some carrots, dice some chestnuts (not the whole tin or just leave it out) slice some mushrooms, add prawns.
Quite a few things missing here, beansprouts, sesame oil, oyster sauce etc
i believe u are good "western" chef
dude he gets payed for this OBVIOUSLY he knows how to cook a chinese dish
For all the haters, the title says Jamie Oliver's chicken chow mein, NOT chinese chicken chow mein
I don't get it, you should have like millions of subscribers!
With the shiitake mushrooms, you can buy dried ones in the Asian section of most supermarkets. Soak them in boiling water for 10 minutes & drain.
Why are people so pissed that this isn't traditional? It tastes good so who cares. It honestly tastes better than the chinese take-outs I've been to. That being said I don't think this trumps the original recipe but it's a damn load better than the shit you get served at most of those restaurants. It has a western twist to it much like the California roll with sushi...
Perhaps he's trying to simplify it for the British public, but how a Chinese dish is prepped & cooked dictate the flavors/taste. Where I'm coming from is that each cuisine should have its own distinctive flavors, he's making this dish like pasta. I'm not dissing Jamie, I love his shows. But I think he should educate the public on the basics like he did with steaks/Italian & French dishes, so people who wish to follow this will know how to create the different flavors and not just another dish.
To all those people calling this Chinese. It's not traditional Chinese food it's westernized
just cooked one today
i love Chinese fast food
This is the first chow mein video that I've seen that has not used oyster sauce.
Jamie is awesome
Nobody said it was traditional. Title clearly says "Jamie Oliver's chicken chow mein"...
Jamie is such a boss
Good chicken chow mein！
+Mary Whitehouse malcontent
Only problem I see is the chicken. Typically in Chinese cooking the meat is coated with salt, sugar, white pepper (MSG), then an egg white or two (depending on how much protein you're using), mix it up then add either flour or corn starch to coat the meat. From there you either blanch it in water or give it a quick blanch in some hot oil. You don't want to cook the meat through, the point is to finish it in the stir fry. If you do this with your protein it will taste like what you're used to eating at Chinese carry outs. Good luck suckers!
P.S., actually saw a lot of problems. I'd stick with the carry out over this disaster.
Um, white pepper is *not* msg, two totally different things.
Um, yeah I know that. I put MSG in parenthesizes because I forgot to add it when I was writing, so I slipped it in.
Greyswindire
But... But you didn't need to add the parenthesize + MSG is bad for you.
Hector Lamar
Some say it is bad (MSG) and other studies say it isn't. Either add it or don't add it. And don't be a grammar Nazi unless there is serious problem reading another's writings.
Love it. Keep up the good work. welcome to youtube, Ignore the haters :P
Jamie needs an Asian cooking class
Video cuts so he can wash his hand after cutting the chicken too but its still a quick dish, he was moving fast with that knife.
Still waiting for a Jamie’s dish w/o lime and coriander.
Jamie's version of chow mein😁
what a nice instant noodle tutorial
Many mistakes in this recipe, but the biggest one would be never adding cornstarch directly in the food... You thicken the sauce with a corn or potato starch slurry at the end.
Regardless what he names this dish, its tasty.
The fact that he used "Chow Mien" to describe it at the beginning seems to have offended a few. How about, "excellent bok choi noodles"
Use taste buds, not nomenclature !! :)
Hi thank u so much for the recipe. u taught it really well.. :))
Can you link your recipe? I love cooking authentic and spin offs and would love to try your way !
thanks !
To all the Asians here replying on this video: make a video of your own instead of reply on video's with such a inappropriate sense of superiority just because you're Asian. Jeez. Am I do the same thing to video recipes of South American food just because I have South American roots? No, because I don't care about the authenticity of food, I just love food!
My fucking lord.
GREAT Jamie I like you serial
For Mr. Chow's sake, at least slice the mushrooms up, Man! What are we, dinosaurs?!
I am
He didnt even chop the vegetable
Yabba Dabba Doo!
LailyCouture Chow mein has nothing to do with Mr.chow. ‘Chow’ is just stir fry in Cantonese.
@@yumengguan8135 I suspect Laily was just being humourous. At least I hope so.
Who freaking add corn starch (or any kind of starch) for a noodle dish without dissolving it in the water first? I don't care whatever you people say, that's not chow mein.
Videos like this should not have a full-screen option....
Actually the first step you need do is to heat the pan, then heat the oil till smoke emerge, then you put the ginger and fry it a little bit in order to push the flavor of the ginger into the oil and the whole dishes later.
Those vegetable are not side dishes, putting them into the wok at half way just waste it totally!
love this guy soooo much!!!!!
yeh but he never said hes making authentic traditional chinese chicken chow mein, he's obviously just doing a more approachable version for the british public.
A wonderful dish!
Really? You tried it yet?
very delicious 😍
That is not the wok .. it is a frying pan.
um.. no? its traditional chinese stir-fried noodles.
Very Good l will make it tonight
very good recipe its so delicious
look ive watched him for yrs an enjoy what he does. very talented an skilled. use to be on food network for awhile too if you all remember. now there are only a few Add to dictionary I don't agree with for this delicious dish
I really need to stop watching this while I am hungry...
I love Jay pretending to care about the regards that can't boil noodles
He's so cute. Lol
Nice video and cooking. Thank you! Shouldn't you be using a wooden spatula on a non-stick wok?
Fresh ginger, chilli and garlic.
He makes chow mein like it's spaghetti lol
So easy done thank you I ill try soon
We'll have to challenge Jamie to a Chow Mein -off... that's a thing right?
homemade version ;)
Oh dear. No wonder his restaurants are closing down left, right and center.
You should post a video response so we all know how it's done. :-)
Bean sprouts , velvet the chicken first ? Tbs oyster sauce too ! Noodles should be pre cooked and cold . Also a little finish with sesame oil ! Job done ! Wow I should be a chef ; give me a job Jamie , I'll show you how to cook !
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