Vegetable Hakka Noodles / Restaurant Style

 Vegetable Hakka noodles are loved by all. I make it at least once a week for my kids.  

When I was in Delhi; whenever my friends and I had gatherings, if there was a noodle dish on the menu, I used to make it for the party. They loved it very much. Hakka noodle is a Chinese dish cooked on high flame. Noodles with fresh vegetables, soya sauce…the aroma of garlic fried in olive oil....its heavenly! It is very quick and easy to make and perfect to serve with gravy of your choice. . I prefer it with chilli paneer. 

 Serve 3

Ingredients

 1 & ½ cup Hakka noodles

 ½ cup cabbage chopped lengthwise

1 medium sized carrot thinly sliced

1 medium onion thinly sliced

½ capsicum / bell pepper chopped lengthwise

3-4 clove garlic chopped finely

3 tbsp spring onion chopped finely includes both green and white part

1 tsp Vinegar

½ tbsp soya sauce

¼ cup tomato sauce

1 tsp green chili sauce

Black pepper powder as required

Salt to taste

3tbsp Olive oil

Procedure

 Cook noodles in a large pot with 3-4 cups of boiling water and cook them for 8 -10 minutes. Make sure it’s not over cooked. Drain water and wash it to remove the excess starch and add 1 tsp oil and mix well to avoid sticking

In a wok or pan, heat some oil. Add chopped garlic, onions, spring onion and fry until slightly brown. Then add the carrot, cabbage then sauté for a minute on medium high flame till it slightly shrinks in volume and the raw smell of veggies is gone. Then add capsicum and sauté for a minute. 

I added capsicum later as it cooks faster compared to other veggies. Then again keep in high flame and add soya sauce, give a quick stir. Now add green chili sauce, tomato sauce and keep tossing them and add vinegar, required salt and pepper powder.

Finally add cooked noodles and mix them really well until all the noodles get nicely coated with sauce and veggies.

Serve hot with chopped spring onions and sliced onion.

Note

Always fry on high flame. If you can, try tossing the veggies in such a way that it catches fire. This gives the smoky flavor as in restaurants.

You can use any kind of noodles you want.

Whenever you make noodles keep your flame high, otherwise it will be  mushy.