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Spicy Orange Noodles with Mushrooms, Kale & Edamame


Spicy Orange Noodles with Mushrooms, Kale & Edamame
 
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Chinese
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • SAUCE:
  • ¼ cup orange juice
  • ¼ cup lime juice
  • 2 Tablespoons peanut butter
  • 1 tablespoon miso paste
  • 1 tablespoon orange / mandarin zest
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed / chopped
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup / brown rice syrup
  • 1 teaspoon semi dried chilli / chilli flakes - adjust to suit
  • ¼ tsp toasted sesame oil
  • ½ cup soy milk
  • OTHER THINGS:
  • 350g wholewheat noodles or spaghetti
  • 1 cup podded edamame beans
  • ½ bunch kale, destemmed, finely shredded
  • 375g punnet sliced mushrooms
  • To serve: spring onions, finely chopped
Instructions
  1. Put a large pot of water on to boil for the noodles.
  2. Whisk together all the sauce ingredients in a bowl.
  3. Prepare the beans, mushrooms and and kale.
  4. Put the shredded kale in to a large bowl and pour boiling water over it.
  5. Heat a large deep frying pan or wok and add the mushrooms.
  6. Once liquid is released add the kale and stir around.
  7. Once noodles are almost ready add the beans to the frying pan or wok and heat through. Cook for a few minutes until the kale is tender and most of liquid evaporated.
  8. Serve up the noodles into individual bowls, top with the vegeables and drizzle over the sauce.
  9. Sprinkle over the spring onions.

 

Lemongrass & Chilli-Lime Stir Fry


Lemongrass & Chilli-Lime Stir Fry
 
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Aromatic stir fry with Thai flavours and green vegetables. Serve with noodles or rice.
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Thai
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 2 green chillies
  • 1 stick lemongrass
  • 2 zucchini
  • 1 green capsicum
  • 200g button / smallish mushrooms
  • 200g snow peas
  • 1 pack marinated tofu pieces
  • ½ cup salt reduced soy sauce
  • ½ cup apple juice
  • Juice and zest of a lime
  • 1 tablespoon of tahini
  • To Serve: Rice or Noodles, freshly chopped coriander
Instructions
  1. Put on your rice or noodles to cook.
  2. Peel the garlic, chop and deseed the chillies, peel and slice a finger-length piece of lemongrass and put them in a food processor or mini-chopper and pulse until finely chopped.
  3. Prep the veggies: slice the zucchini into thick half-moons, quarter the button mushrooms, slice the capsicum, and de-vein and slice the snow peas lengthwise.
  4. Rinse the tofu in a sieve with boiling water to remove oily marinade then cut into bite size pieces.
  5. If you are having noodles, check if they are ready, then drain and set aside.
  6. Heat a large wok or deep frying pan with a lid and add the lemongrass, chilli and garlic paste with a tablespoon of water and stir around for a couple of minutes. Add the zucchini, mushrooms, tofu and capsicum; mix well and put on the lid. Whisk together the apple juice, soy sauce, lime juice and zest and tahini.
  7. Add as much of the sauce as you like to the vegetables along with the snow peas and cook until they are bright green and still crisp. Add more if the sauce evaporates too much.
  8. Add the noodles to the pan or serve on top in individual bowls with the rice.
  9. Serve scattered with the chopped coriander leaves.