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Szechuan Chicken & Baby Corn Stir-Fry

With this quick Szechuan chicken stir-fry, you can experience bold flavours – even on busy nights. Szechuan ('sesh-wan') is a popular Chinese cooking style packed with heat from garlic and chillies. Vibrant mange tout and baby corn add colour and crunch. Szechuanderful! (Dairy-free: see our FAQs for details).

20 mins
514kcal
Asian
Szechuan Chicken & Baby Corn Stir-Fry
4.5

Ingredients for 2 people

1 Tomato paste sachet (16g)
1 Tomato paste sachet (16g)
1 red chilli
1 red chilli
1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
1 soy sauce sachet (30ml)
1 soy sauce sachet (30ml)
1 cider vinegar sachet (30ml)
1 cider vinegar sachet (30ml)
120g baby corn
120g baby corn
1 honey pot (25g)
1 honey pot (25g)
2 wholewheat noodle nests
2 wholewheat noodle nests
80g mange tout
80g mange tout
1 large British chicken breast fillet
1 large British chicken breast fillet
1 spring onion
1 spring onion
3 garlic cloves
3 garlic cloves
15g fresh root ginger
15g fresh root ginger

You'll also need

Pepper, Salt, Vegetable oil (or dietary alternatives)

Cooking instructions

Instructions for 2 portion recipe.

1.

Peel (scrape the skin off with a teaspoon) and finely chop (or grate) the ginger and garlic

Cut the red chilli[es] in half lengthways, deseed (scrape the seeds out with a teaspoon) and chop finely

Trim, then slice the spring onion[s] finely

Slice the baby corn in half lengthways

Step 1
2.

Boil a kettle 

Chop the chicken breast[s] into rough, bite-sized pieces 

Step 2
3.

Add the wholewheat noodles to a pot with a generous pinch of salt and cover with boiled water until they're fully submerged

Bring to the boil over a high heat and cook for 5-7 min until tender with a slight bite, then drain and return them to the pot 

Step 3
4.

Meanwhile, heat a large, wide-based pan (preferably non-stick) with a drizzle of vegetable oil over a high heat

Once hot, add the chopped chicken and cook for 3 min or until it's lightly browned all over 

 

 

Step 4
5.

Add the sliced baby corn and mange tout to the pan, reduce the heat to medium and cook for 1-2 min or until the vegetables are starting to soften

Step 5
6.

Once softened, add the chopped garlic, ginger and chilli (Can't handle the heat? Go easy!) to the pan and cook for 1 min 

Add the soy sauce, tomato paste, apple cider vinegar and honey and cook for a further 1-2 min or until a loose sauce has formed

Season generously with pepper – this is your Schezuan Chicken & Baby Corn Stir-Fry

Step 6
7.

Add the toasted sesame oil and chopped spring onion to the drained noodles and give everything a good mix up – these are your sesame noodles

Step 7
8.

Serve the Szechuan Chicken & Baby Corn Stir-Fry with the sesame noodles to the side

Enjoy!

Nutritional information

Nutritional information only applies to ingredients supplied by Gousto.

per serving
514kcal
Energy
10.7g
Fat
51.5g
Carbohydrate
6.2g
Fibre
48.9g
Protein
2.6g
Salt

The cooking process and additional ingredients added at home (listed under “You'll also need”) will affect total values.

Allergens

Allergens highlighted by (egg, gluten, sesame, soya).

In addition to the recipe specific allergen information provided, due to production and packing methods Gousto boxes may also contain low levels of the following allergens: Cereals containing gluten; Crustaceans; Eggs; Fish; Peanuts; Soya; Milk; Nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecan nuts, brazil nuts, pistachio nuts, macadamia nuts; Celery; Sesame; Sulphur dioxide and Sulphites; Lupin; Molluscs; Mustard.

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