Udon Noodles with Chicken and Vegetables

A tasty, satisfying dish for fans of Asian cooking! Asian-style dishes have become very popular lately. For one thing, they're delicious — a mix of spicy, aromatic seasonings makes them especially flavorful and filling, and they leave you wanting more. For another, they're simple to make, with affordable, easy-to-find ingredients, so you can put one together at home using whatever produce and spices you like.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 20 % 7 g
Fats 20 % 7 g
Carbohydrates 60 % 21 g
161 kcal
GI: 38 / 62 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 45 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1

    Gather your ingredients. We're making udon noodles with chicken, vegetables, mushrooms, and sauce. Choose the vegetables based on what you have and what you like. For the chicken, breast or thigh fillet works best. Rinse the meat and cut it into cubes or strips.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2

    Peel the onion and cut it into half-rings or thin wedges.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3

    Rinse, peel, and grate the carrot.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4

    Rinse the bell pepper and cut out the stem and seed pod. Cut the flesh into strips or dice. You can use frozen beans and green peas. Peel and finely chop a couple of garlic cloves with a knife.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5

    For the mushrooms, use button mushrooms or wild ones. Wild mushrooms make the dish both tastier and more fragrant; any kind works, fresh or frozen. Rinse the mushrooms, cut them into pieces if large, and fry in vegetable oil over medium heat for 20 minutes.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6

    Add the onion to the mushrooms in the pan. Stir and fry together until the onion turns translucent.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7

    Add the chicken. Stir and fry over medium heat until the chicken turns white. Pour in the soy sauce and add salt, ground black pepper, a pinch of paprika, and ground coriander. Stir to combine.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8

    Add the rest of the vegetables to the pan, stir, and fry everything together for about 10 minutes.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9

    Meanwhile, cook the udon noodles in salted water. Follow the package directions and cook to al dente, usually about 8 minutes. Drain the noodles in a colander and let the water run off.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10

    Add the noodles to the pan with the vegetables, mushrooms, and chicken. Stir and keep over the heat for about 5 minutes, then turn off the heat. Serve the dish.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11

    Enjoy!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Category I chicken - 238  kcal/100g
  • Chicken of the II category - 159  kcal/100g
  • Chicken, flesh without skin - 241  kcal/100g
  • Chickens - 140  kcal/100g
  • Forest mushrooms - 21  kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27  kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33  kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275  kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25  kcal/100g
  • Dried whole green peas - 340  kcal/100g
  • Crushed raw peas without seed coating - 348  kcal/100g
  • Crushed boiled peas - 115  kcal/100g
  • Turkish peas, dried, uncooked - 360  kcal/100g
  • Dried, uncooked cow peas - 343  kcal/100g
  • Dried boiled cow peas - 76  kcal/100g
  • Dried peas - 322  kcal/100g
  • Peas - 298  kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255  kcal/100g
  • Soy sauce - 51  kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • Ground hot pepper - 21  kcal/100g
  • Paprika - 289  kcal/100g
  • Ground coriander - 25  kcal/100g
  • Green beans - 33  kcal/100g
  • Beans - 33  kcal/100g
  • Udon Noodles - 337  kcal/100g

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