{"id":95,"date":"2008-03-28T20:54:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T02:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/szechwan-chicken-chow-fun\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T20:54:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T02:54:19","slug":"szechwan-chicken-chow-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/szechwan-chicken-chow-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Szechwan Chicken Chow Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe is based on a dish that <em>used <\/em>to be on the menu at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfchangs.com\/\">P.F. Chang&#8217;s<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The Picky Apple ordered this dish every single time we went to P.F. Chang&#8217;s until one day last year, it was no longer on the menu.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a sad day for him, and he was forced to try something new and different.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s found some new dishes he likes, but none are quite the same as that Szechwan Chicken Chow Fun.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve tried our best to recreate this dish at home, and this is a decent replica.\u00c2\u00a0 We usually double the recipe and eat the leftovers for lunch for the next few days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Szechwan Chicken Chow Fun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 ounces ground chicken (cooked)<\/li>\n<li>8 ounces chow fun noodles (wide rice noodles&#8230;.can be hard to find, so just use the widest rice noodles available)<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon minced garlic<\/li>\n<li>2 teaspoons chili paste (this makes it pretty spicy&#8230;if you don&#8217;t like spicy, then use less chili paste or increase the vinegar to offset the spice a little)<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons shredded black fungus mushrooms (optional)<\/li>\n<li>Sesame oil (optional)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sauce:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 tablespoons soy sauce<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons rice vinegar<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons granulated sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon oyster sauce<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon mushroom soy sauce<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directions:\u00c2\u00a0 Cook chow fun noodles according to package directions, and set aside.\u00c2\u00a0 Heat wok and add 2 teaspoons vegetable oil.\u00c2\u00a0 Stir fry garlic and chili paste for 5 to 7 seconds.\u00c2\u00a0 Add ground chicken and sear with garlic and chili paste.\u00c2\u00a0 Add black fungus mushrooms if using, and stir fry briefly.\u00c2\u00a0 Separate the noodles, and drop into the wok while you are mixing a handful at a time.\u00c2\u00a0 Continue cooking until the noodles have absorbed all the flavors and are hot.\u00c2\u00a0 Finish with sesame oil.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/szechwan-chicken-chow-fun\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe is based on a dish that used to be on the menu at P.F. Chang&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 The Picky Apple ordered this dish every single time we went to P.F. Chang&#8217;s until one day last year, it was no longer on the menu.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a sad day for him, and he was forced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicken","category-main-dish","category-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}