Soy Sauce Chicken Noodles

5 from 16 votes

Fine egg noodles served with delicious soy braised tender chicken slices, rich savoury sauce, blanched green vegetables and sambal sauce.

Prep Time10

Cook Time20

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Chinese Cuisine

Servings:

Calories: 654kcal

Author: Khin

21 oz Chicken breast ( boneless skin-on chicken thigh or breast ) about 600 gram
5 slices Ginger
4 cloves Garlic
4 Spring onions
½ tsp Chinese five spices
2 pods Star anise ( optional )
¼ tsp White pepper
3 tbsp Sugar
¼ cup Light soy sauce ( or all purpose soy sauce )
3 tbsp Dark soy sauce
1 tbsp Shaoxing wine
1 tsp Salt ( Or salt to taste )
1 tsp Sesame oil ( toasted )
2 cup Water
2 tsp Corn starch ( mix it with 2 tbsp of water )
1 tbsp Vegetable oil

Sauté the ginger slices, garlic cloves in the large saucepan for 1 minute and follow with the white part of spring onions. Continue stir for 1-2 minutes until slightly brown and nice fragrant comes out.
Pour two cups of water, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and Chinese Shaoxing wine. Bring it to boil and add the chicken breasts, white pepper, Chinese five spices, and star anise. Let the sauce boil again.
Then reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Flip the chicken breasts halfway through.
Remove the chicken breast from the sauce, cut into medium slices and keep it warm.
Strain the herbs and spices with a strainer.
Add corn starch water slurry, sesame oil, black pepper and salt to taste into the sauce. Reduce the sauce to desire thickness and keep it warm.
To serve the dish, blanch the noodles and vegetables for 1-2 minutes. Place the sauce in the bottom of the bowl, add the noodles in, topped with chicken slices, blanched vegetables, spring onions and sambal sauce.

Chinese Five Spices – is a powder mixture of cinnamon, star anise, cloves, Sichuan peppercorns, and fennel. You can find it in most Chinese/Oriental grocery stores.
Star anise - It has a pungent, licorice-like flavour and creates the chicken broth aromatic deep flavoured. You can omit star anise if you don't have it in hand.
Can I use bone-in chicken? - Yes, If you use chicken leg or bone-in chicken pieces, you can increase the simmering time for about total 30 minutes.
Sambal - Sambal is an Indonesian/Malaysian hot chilli sauce made of chilli peppers, shallots, shrimp paste, ginger, lime, etc. If you can't get sambal sauce, Chinese chilli garlic sauce or any hot chilli garlic sauce can be a great substitute.
Shaoxing wine - is a Chinese cooking rice wine that consists of a very low alcohol percentage. If you wish to make an alcohol free or halal version, you can omit Shaoxing wine in this recipe.