This Chinese bhel is a crispy noodles salad made with Indo-Chinese flavor. It's easy to make and a quick snack recipe. Let's see how to make this yummy noodle salad, Chinese bhel.
Chinese Bhel Recipe | Crispy Noodles Salad
Chinese bhel is Indo-Chinese food. This is one of the most popular street food and snack in Mumbai. This is a fusion food of Indian bhel and Chinese noodles.
Street foods are generally fast foods that combine spicy, tangy, and sweet flavors. And this blend of flavors makes them perfectly delectable for our taste buds. We call that "chatpata" in Hindi, which means a mixture of all flavors. So as in Chinese bhel.
As this is fusion food, the preparation method we use is that of the bhel. We will use Chinese sauces and flavors to give it an authentic taste.
This is also similar to, or you can say, aย modified version of American Choupsy,ย which is almost identical to this recipe.
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How To Make Chinese Noodle Salad?
I will divide this into 3 step processes.
- Preparing Fried Noodles
- Preparing Sauce
- Final Presentation
Preparing Fried Noodles
Heat water in a saucepan with a pinch of salt and a tsp of oil. Add noodles into boiling water and boil till it's cookedย al-dente. (Don't over boil otherwise it will be mushy).
Once boiled, remove from hot water and place on a colander. Run it under tap water or room temperature water to stop excess cooking. Drizzle some oil into it. Noodles will not stick by this.
Heat oil in a deep Frying pan. Keep it on high flame. Now drop a fistful of boiled noodles into hot oil and deep fry till it turns crispy and changes color.
This will take around 3 - 4 minutes. Do it in batches, and don't overcrowd the pan beyond the capacity. Similarly, deep fry all boiled noodles. Keep the fried noodles on a paper napkin to eliminate excess oil.
Preparing Sauce
Now, in another pan, heat 2 - 3 tbsp oil. Saute sliced onion and ginger garlic till a bit of brown. Now add shredded cabbage and carrots for 2 minutes. Then add sliced bell peppers and saute for 2 minutes.
Add all sauces mentioned in the ingredients list and season with salt to taste. The sauce is now ready.
Final Assembling
Next, add deep-fried noodles to the sauces and quickly stir for a minute. Then turn off the heat. Add chopped onion greens and garnish with some more.
Variations:-
Add vegetable manchurian or cabbage balls to the bhel to make it filler and yummy.
Add schezwan sauce to the bhel to make it extra spicy and hot.
Chinese Bhel (Crispy Noodles Salad) Recipe
Crispy Chinese Bhel Recipe
Equipment
- Frying Pan/ Skillet
Ingredients
For Sauce
- 1 tbsp Red Chilli Sauce
- 1 tbsp Tomato Ketchup
- 1 tbsp Soy Sauce
- ยฝ tbsp Vinegar or chili vinegar
- ยฝ tsp Black Pepper Powder
- ยฝ tsp corn starch + 1 tsp water to make the slurry
Instructions
- Heat water in a saucepan with a pinch of salt and a tsp oil.
- Add noodles into boiling water and boil till it's cooked al-dente. (Don't over boil otherwise it will be mushy)
- Once the noodle is cooked remove from hot water and place on a colander.
- Run it under tap water or room temperature water to stop excess cooking.
- Drizzle some oil into it. Noodles will not stick by this.
- Heat oil in a deep Frying pan. Keep it on high flame.
- Now drop a fistful of boiled noodles into hot oil and deep fry till it turns crispy and changes color.
- This will take around 3 - 4 minutes. Do it in batches and don't overcrowd the pan beyond the capacity.
- Similarly deep fry all boiled noodles. Keep the fried noodles on a paper napkin to get rid of excess oil.
- Now in another pan heat 2 - 3 tbsp oil.
- Saute sliced onion, ginger garlic till little brown.
- Now add shredded cabbage, carrots for 2 minutes.
- Then add sliced bell peppers and saute for 2 minutes.
- Add all sauces mentioned in the ingredients list.
- Make a slurry with mixing corn starch with water.
- Add the slurry to the prepared sauce and bring it to a boil.
- Sauce is now ready.
- Next, add all deep-fried noodles into the sauce and quickly stir for a minute.
- Then turn off the heat.
- Add chopped onion greens and garnish with some more.
Notes
- Wash noodles immediately after boiling to stop overcooking.
- Add salt if at all required (after tasting) as soy sauce and chili sauce contain some salt in them.ย
- Add manchurian balls to make it yummier.
- You can also prepare the fried noodles and store it in air tight jar. And the sauce separately for further use.
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