Stir Fried Seafood with Noodles

The noodles that I use for this are vey thick rice noodles (Yunnan) that I purchase in an Asian grocery but any noodles could be used.  When making a fish or seafood stir fry I cook the fish separately and toss it into the noodle and vegetable mix. Fish will break up if tossed around too much and seafood will over cook very easily. Keep the vegetables and other flavourings simple so that the seafood flavours shine.

As with all stir fry, preparation is key. Assemble all the ingredients, prepare the vegetables, pre cook the noodles and have the sauce ingredients mixed. You need to work quickly once you start to cook the stir fry. I use a large non stick fry pan for this dish.

This is the tool that I use to prepare the zucchini and capsicum.

This is the bean slicer tool that I use for stringing and slicing the beans.

A really excellent gadget if you are using beans that need stringing - these are Scarlett Runner Beans and a quite fibrous in comparison to stringless or French beans.

Pre cook the noodles in a pot of boiling water for 2-3 minutes and drain, keep warm.

Heat the pan, add a little oil and quickly fry the fish/seafood. Cook the fish in batches and allow it to colour slightly. This is a combination of sqid tubes, chunks of fish and a few scallops, prawns would also be used. Each cooked separately, and then removed to a clean bowl. There is no need to clean the pan in between. Add some crushed garlic with the last batch. Cover seafood and keep warm.

Add a little oil to the hot pan and then the drained noodles, toss. Do not worry about any little bits of garlic left in the pan.

Add the vegetables to the hot pan, allow to warm but do not over cook. Add to the cooked noodles.

Add blanched beans.

Then the sauce

Toss to make sure the noodles and vegetables are coated with the sauce.

Add the seafood and gently mix through the noodles and vegetables.

Stir Fried Seafood with Noodles

Fish /Seafood 800 g prepared fish/seafood* 4 -6 cloves garlic, crushed 2-3 tablespoons grapeseed/vegetable/peanut oil Use firm fleshed fish, cut into chunks Prepared prawn tails, squid tubes cut into chunks, calamari rings, scallops Noodles 1 packet Yunnan style rice noodles or any thick noodle

Vegetables 1 medium green zucchini 1 medium yellow zucchini 1 red capsicum 200g green beans ½ bunch spring onions, thinly sliced Sauce 2 tablespoons oyster sauce 2 tablespoons Shao Xing Cooking wine or  dry sherry 1 teaspoon sesame oil

Method

Prepare all ingredients.

Cut zucchini and capsicum into long thin julienne strips

Slice beans into thin strips, blanch/ cook in microwave for 1 -2 minutes, keep warm

Cook noodles according to instructions on the packet, drain and keep warm.

To Cook Stir Fry

Heat pan/wok until very hot, add 1 tablespoon of oil and then cook seafood in batches, adding the garlic with last batch.  Do not overcrowd the pan and until barely cooked. Remove fish from pan, place in a clean bowl and keep warm.

Add a little more oil to the pan, add the noodles and toss around, remove from heat and place back in bowl.

Reheat pan  add a little more oil if necessary then add zucchini, capsicum and spring onions to the hot pan and toss around to warm them.  Do not cook any further as you want these vegetables to be crisp. Add vegetables to noodles.

Warm the sauce ingredients in the pan.

Add blanched beans to the noodle mix toss to mix and then add the warmed sauce.

Add fish or seafood and gently mix