Chicken Hoisin Noodles

5 from 1 vote

These chicken hoisin noodles are perfect for budget meal prep. 5 high-protein lunches for £6, ready in 20 minutes. Enjoy hot or cold!

Prep Time5

Cook Time15

Total Time20

Servings:

Calories: 392kcal

Author: Mimi Harrison

Ingredients

500 g chicken mince 5% fat
300 g spaghetti
200 g hoisin sauce
1 cucumber thinly sliced into strips
Handful of spring onions thinly sliced into strips
Optional clove of garlic, minced

Cupboard Essentials

1 tsp olive oil
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp rice vinegar
2 tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking powder
Salt
Black pepper
Optional chilli flakes

Instructions

Preheat a frying pan over a medium-high heat, then add olive oil and the chicken mince. Season with salt and pepper and leave to brown for 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes, add 5 tbsp of hoisin sauce and continue frying for a further 4 minutes, or until the mince has browned and the sauce has darkened and thickened.
Meanwhile, add the spaghetti to salted boiling water. Add 2 tsp of bicarbonate of soda and stir. Set your timer to the spaghetti packet time minus 1 minute.
Add the thinly sliced spring onions to an ice bath. Allow 5 minutes for them to curl up nicely.
When your spaghetti timer goes off, drain and rinse in a colander. Add back into your pan and add the remaining hoisin sauce, soy sauce, rice vinegar, optional garlic and a big crack of black pepper. Stir until well combined.
Divide the hoisin chicken into 5 meal prep containers, then the noodles, then cucumber.
When it's time to eat, enjoy hot or cold and top with spring onions and optional chilli flakes.

Notes

• Slice the spring onions very thinly. The finer the strips, the better they curl in the ice bath and the prettier they look on top.
• Set the timer to packet time minus one minute. Then drain and rinse, this stops the cooking and keeps the noodles from going claggy.
• The garlic is optional. Add it if you love that fresh hit and skip it if you don't.

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