Vegetables Recipes - Pe-Tsai Mien

Ingredients

• 1 Chinese leaves (stem lettuce), thickly shredded

• 50 g/2 oz/1/4 cup butter

• 150 ml/2/3 cup vegetable stock

• 1 bunch of spring onions (scallions), cut into short lengths

• 1 garlic clove, crushed

• 4 ripe tomatoes, skinned and chopped

• 15 ml/1 tbsp soy sauce

• 2 x 85 g/2 x 3 1/2 oz/2 small packets tomato-flavored instant noodles

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Method:

1. Stir-fry (sauté) the Chinese leaves in half the butter for 3 minutes until slightly softened.

2. Add the stock, spring onions, garlic, tomatoes and soy sauce. Boil fairly rapidly until the Chinese leaves are just tender and bathed in sauce.

3. Meanwhile, cook the noodles according to the packet directions.

4. Pile on to serving plates and spoon the Chinese leaves over. Serve hot.