Egg Chowmein Recipe (Kolkata Street-Style)
Recipe to make tasty egg chow mein easily at home. Simple ingredients, instructions, and equipment to prepare Kolkata Street-style egg chow easily.
Equipment
- 1 Induction Cooktop
- 1 Kadhai (Wok prefered)
- 1 Cooking Pan
Ingredients
- 1 Packet Noodles Chow
- 1 litre Water
- Salt to taste
- 2-3 Eggs
- 1 Onion large
- 1 Capsicum large
- 2 Carrot
- ⅓ Cabbage
- 4-6 cloves Garlic
- 3 Green Chilis
- 8 Button Mushrooms optional
- 1 tsp Black pepper
- ¼ tsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Soy sauce
- 1 ½ tsp Vinegar
- 1 tsp Red chili sauce
- 1 tsp Green chili sauce
- 1 pinch Garam Masala optional
- Vegetable oil
Instructions
Prepare the veggies
- First, start with washing all the veggies.
- Next, slice the onions thinly. Chop the capsicum into medium-wide strips and the carrots into thin long strips.
- Peel the top of the button mushroom and cut them from the top towards the stalk. You can keep or chop off the stalk.
- Now, finely chop the green chilis and then mince the garlic cloves.
Prepare the sauces
- Before starting to cook, take a bowl and in that, mix the soy sauce, green chili sauce, red chili sauce, a bit of salt, pepper, and vinegar.
Boil the noodles
- Next, take a pot, fill it half with water, and put some salt in it.
- Let the water come to a rolling boil and then put in the noodles.
- Cook the noodles until they are springy and chewy. Stir it occasionally. Do not overcook the noodles or else they will turn mushy.
- After the noodles are cooked to perfection, strain them immediately and put them in an ice bath. This will stop the cooking any further.
- Then, take the noodles out after a minute and shake well to remove any excess water. Spread them on a plate and coat them with a teaspoon of oil. This will stop the sticking and clumping.
Prepare the eggs
- Next, whisk two eggs with salt to taste.
- Take a frying pan and heat some oil. Put in the eggs and scramble them on medium flame. Do not over-fry the eggs.
- Put them aside.
Fry the veggies
- Heat the wok over the flames. If you don’t have a wok, you can use kadhai.
- Put some oil and heat it until you see the smoke.
- Now, add in the slices of onions. Keep the flames to high and fry them for a minute.
- Then, add the carrots and fry them for 1 minute.
- To the veggies add in the minced garlic, capsicum, mushrooms (optional), cabbage, and finely chopped green chilis.
- Saute everything on high heat for a minute and then add in the sauce, garam masala (optional), salt to taste, sugar, and black pepper.
- Combine all of it really well.
Add the noodles and eggs
- Add in the noodles bit by bit. This will help in mixing everything better.
- Lastly, put in the scrambled eggs.
- Give it a final toss.
- Mix all the items and then transfer them into a bowl.