Wednesday, May 25, 2011

My Rissotto style LO MEIN

Okay, I doubt this is true Lo mein, but its my version!!



Ingredients:
1 onion diced
4 stalks of celery diced
4 carrots sliced diagonally
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon butter
8 cups of water
4 chicken bouillon cubes
2 beef bouillon cubes
2 cups of dry broken spaghetti noodles
6 strips of bacon
3 chicken breasts- sliced into bit size chunks
sliced chunk ed ham- deli style or ham steaks.. whatever you have on hand
1 cup of frozen peas
granulated garlic powder
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melt butter in large fry pan. add oil.  Brown onions, celery and carrots until onions and celery are soft.
In the meanwhile in a separate pan bring water to boil with bouillon cubes.
add broken spaghetti to vegetable mixture.  Add boiling broth 1cup to 1 1/2 cups at a time to spaghetti vegetable mixture.  Stir and boil off liquid.  When liquid is almost gone in spaghetti mixture, add more same measurements. Keep adding stock, stirring and boiling down until carrots are cooked and pasta is cooked through. You may not use all the broth.
Meanwhile in another small fry pan, cook bacon until crispy, drain on paper towels.  Add another tablespoon of butter to fry pan.  Brown chicken in oil. Don't crowd the pan you may have to do in several batches.  Drain chicken on paper towels.   Add chopped ham to any left over oil in chicken/bacon pan.  Brown until its the desired color you like.  Add the frozen peas to ham and stir fry till peas are heated through.  Add Chicken, ham, peas and crumbled bacon to spaghetti mixture.  Sprinkle with garlic powder to taste and stir until all is combined.
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I think it turned out yummy.  I added all the meat to keep the protein count a little higher.  The peas add protein as well.  You could also use pork chops instead of chicken.  Or whole wheat pasta.

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