Pasta is such an amazing ingredient. Apart from
Italian cuisines, it goes great with Asian flavours too!
One of them is FRIED
SPAGHETTI. Here’s how to make a spicy fried spaghetti with an Asian twist!
INGREDIENTS
100 – 110 grams of spaghetti
½ of onion, 3 cloves of garlic, 5 bird’s eyes chilies
(optional) – all finely chopped
1 tbsp of
chilli paste, chilli sauce, tomato ketchup, oyster sauce
1 - 2 tbsp
of sweet soy sauce
A few strips of chicken breast – chopped
2 eggs
1 red chili and 3 stalks of gai choy – chopped
3 tbsp of vegetable
oil for cooking
Salt and pepper for seasoning
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Put some water in a large pot. Turn the stove on
and once the water is boiling, add a tad bit of salt and olive oil. Then add
your pasta and let it cook (time: refer
to the instruction of the pasta packaging). Once cooked, set it aside (with some of the pasta water).
2. Heat wok with vegetable oil on medium heat.
3. Once the wok is hot, put in the chopped onion,
garlic and bird’s eyes chili and stir for a couple of minutes.
4. Add in chili paste and let it cook until the
oil is separated for the chili.
5. Next, put in chili sauce, tomato ketchup as
well oyster sauce. Mix everything together.
6. Add about 3 tbsp
of pasta water and stir with the rest of the mixture.
7. Add in the chopped chicken strips. Once they are
cooked, set them to one side of the wok and break in eggs on the other side of
the wok.
8. Season with salt and pepper.
9. Add in the cooked pasta and pour in the sweet
soy sauce. Mix everything well till the pasta is all coated with the sweet soy
sauce.
10. Taste for seasoning.
11. Finally, add in the chopped gai choy and red chili. Stir everything together for about a
minute.
12. Serve and enjoy.
· This recipe is for 1 portion of serving.
· Bear in mind, that this dish is quite spicy. So
if you can’t handle the heat, please omit or reduce the use of the bird’s eyes
chilies.
· You could always use other kinds of vegetables such
as bean sprouts, cabbage and carrots.
· Apart from chicken, feel free to replace/ add
together with prawns or beef.
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