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Pastas

Chinese Smoked Turkey Stir fry Indomie Noodles

This is one of the easiest recipes to make, and also great for using leftovers. There are loads of stir fry recipes around, I even wrote about one using Calamari and Prawns (recipe HERE). I was watching Jamie Oliver’s 30minute meals one evening, and I thought okay I want to try this. He used beef, but I wanted to try smoked turkey just for its amazing flavour. I loved, loved, loved it. It was so simple, and I had the best cheat of all, already chopped Chinese Stir Fry Vegetables.

This recipe took me all of 20minutes, and I was done.

You will need

2 pieces of Smoked Turkey

2 packets of Indomie noodles

1 packet of stir fry vegetables – if you can’t find already packed vegetables, just shred cabbage, onions, flat green beans

1/4 red onion

Red chilli

Green chilli

Curry Powder

Dried thyme

Dry pepper – cayenne pepper or paprika

Garlic salt

Onion powder

pinch of seasoning cube

Soy Sauce

Sunflower oil

How To

1. Pick out 2 pieces of smoked turkey

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get ready your packet of stir fry veggies

 

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3. On a baking tray, sprinkle over all the seasoning I listed above, add a little olive oil to bind all the seasoning powders together and whack in the oven for 8 – 10 minutes.

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The turkey is already smoked, so it has been cooked, you only need to put it in the oven to grill for a bit, just for the seasoning to permeate the flesh and to toughen up the meat a little bit.

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4. After grilling, it should look like this.Once grilled, use your hands to the smoked turkey into shreds. While this is grilling, proceed to chopping the onions and chilli, and possibly the rest of the veggies, if you are not using a pre cut pack. If you have a food processor, save yourself the stress and just use it.

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5. After the grilling is done, put the noodles on medium heat, add the seasoning powder that comes with the noodles. You only need to add water that would get to about half of the level of the noodles, see picture below. Dooney’s Kitchen Tip: you need medium heat, so the noodles cook slowly while you stir fry the veggies. You don’t want the noodles to be thoroughly cooked and just sitting in the pot getting cold, before the veggies are done.

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6. While the noodles are boiling, heat up oil in a pan, fry the chopped onions with the red and green chilli till it softens. Let it fry on high heat. This is a stir fry, so flash cooking is the method.

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then add the chinese stir fry veggies, the smoked turkey a dash or two of soy sauce and stir. It is a stir fry, so stir with a frying spoon or toss the wok around.

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keep stirring till you see the vegetables wilting a little bit. Just a little bit. A stir fry is supposed to be crunchy. This whole process should take you all of 2 minutes, or less depending on the quantity of vegetables you have.

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7. Then you add the boiled Indomie noodles and mix with two forks to properly incorporate the vegetables with the noodles. Taste for seasoning, if you need more, add the soy sauce instead. Don’t be tempted to use a seasoning cube or even salt. The seasoning that came in the noodles sachet, plus the soy sauce is just about all you need

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toss around the noodles for about 1 minute, to let it absorb flavour from the veggies, and to also allow the veggies absorb flavour from the seasoned noodles.

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…………and that’s it. You are done. Easy dinner in under 20 minutes. In the time it will take you to order chinese, wait for it to be delivered, which it will be cooked under probably questionable hygienic conditions, you can make this at home.

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Serve in a bowl with Chopsticks for effect, if you can use them, otherwise, get out your fork, plonk on the sofa and watch tv while you enjoy your dinner. If you have a family, just make a big batch and watch their plates empty in minutes.

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If you’ve tried the Chinese Shredded beef served at parties in Nigeria, or sold at your local Chinese restaurant/takeaway, you can make it at home, and it tastes much nicer. Click on the recipe HERE.

I accidentally stumbled on a recipe for Chicken Teriyaki yesterday, and the presentation was sooooo good, it got me hunting for more recipes. I have settled on 3, which I intend to tweak to make it my own. I bought all the ingredients at the supermarket today, so be on the look out for another Dooney’s Kitchen Asian dish


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  1. Avatarpepe says

    December 29, 2013 at 9:32 pm

    Nice one! But can i use rice, spaghetti or any other alternative for this instead of noodles?p

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      December 29, 2013 at 10:38 pm

      If you use rice, it will now be more of Fried rice than a Stir Fry. You can try it with rice though, and let me know how it turns out

      Reply
  2. Avatardee says

    December 30, 2013 at 12:54 am

    I’ve tasted something like this before, it was amazing, but i couldn’t reproduce it. Thanks 4 d heads up!

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      December 30, 2013 at 12:27 pm

      You are welcome. Please let me know how it goes

      Reply
  3. Avatarkc says

    January 3, 2014 at 1:04 am

    hi
    I would like to try this but am not a fan of soy sauce, is there any alternative?
    thanks

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      January 3, 2014 at 7:43 pm

      Oyster sauce or fish sauce can help a bit. I don’t like soy sauce too but if you cook with it at home, and use just a little bit, it is very delicious in food

      Reply
      • Avatarkc says

        January 6, 2014 at 3:42 am

        ok thanks

        Reply
  4. AvatarOluwaseyi says

    January 7, 2014 at 8:26 am

    Yayyy, tried this yesterday and OMG, my husband cleared his plates. yipeeee!

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      January 7, 2014 at 12:56 pm

      Yippeee for you too. Pleased to read your husband enjoyed it

      Reply
  5. AvatarFatimah says

    January 7, 2014 at 8:31 am

    Dunni, you are simply brilliant!!!

    I was hungry and bored over the weekend and decided to give this a try. I checked the fridge and what I could come up with was carrot and cucumber. So I googled a bit to see if cucumber could be stir-fried and indeed it could.

    My stir-fry veggies were cucumber, carrot, onions and habanero pepper. I just added a little curry and thyme while stir-frying. It was freaking delicious!!! I am hooked (had it for dinner yesterday night), so is my brother.

    Thanks for the recipe.

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      January 7, 2014 at 12:55 pm

      very creative, wouldn’t have guessed myself that cucumber could be stir fryed. Well done. Glad you enjoyed it

      Reply
  6. AvatarFatimah says

    January 7, 2014 at 3:08 pm

    Sorry, I forgot to add. The cucumber was a bit soft because it was in the fridge (it made it nicer) plus I peeled off the skin and removed the seeds.

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      January 7, 2014 at 7:08 pm

      Ok, great.

      Reply
  7. Avatarfunkd peters says

    January 7, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    pls dooney I;ve searched round for the soy sauce but saw difft ones, dnt knw which one to use, will apre8 if u can give me the brand name u use. 10nks

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      January 7, 2014 at 11:10 pm

      I use blue dragon or sometimes kikoman. Amoy too is good but my preference is blue dragon

      Reply
  8. AvatarPrisca says

    January 10, 2014 at 8:43 am

    Lord have mercy, indomie is never boring again thanks to Dunni. My husband was licking his lips telling me how good it was! You can imagine how proud I felt 🙂 The spices blended so well in the turkey, it was indescribable; I would never have imagined using indomie for stir fry, I usually buy the “Chinese” noodles. They have lost a customer I tell ya!

    I was still marvelling at the ingenuity of the other indomie recipes and you brought another winning recipe. You are toooooo much! Thank you!

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      January 10, 2014 at 12:02 pm

      Thank you Prisca and well done. Yes, Indomie is beautiful in Stir fry. I have tried Chinese noodles several times, and Indomie still tops it. Glad you and your husband enjoyed it.

      Reply
  9. AvatarOluwatosin says

    January 20, 2014 at 10:02 pm

    I got home pretty late tonight and needed to prepare something very fast for hubby and I. I decided to try out the recipe. I didn’t have smoked turkey at home so I used smoked fish and sausage.

    It came out very nice and tasty as well. Hubby cleared his plate.

    It’s my first time using smoked fish for noodles and am so in love with it. I did the smoked fish the way u asked us to do the smoked turkey but I steamed the smoked fish for 8mins. It came out soft and easy to chew.

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      January 21, 2014 at 3:45 pm

      Oh wow, very creative. I have to try that. Well done

      Reply
  10. Avatarinem says

    February 13, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    pls ow do i smoke turkey?

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      February 13, 2014 at 10:03 pm

      No idea. I always buy it already smoked. If you live in Nigeria, places like Spar or shop rite will sell smoked chicken or smoked turkey

      Reply
  11. Avatarsmols says

    March 4, 2014 at 4:38 pm

    May God continually bless DR, if only for my sake. It’s a chore cooking for my husband. He’s such a picky eater. But since I stumbled on your site, I have been able to add variety to the dishes he likes. Here’s the BIGGEST THANK YOU EVER to you. This I will try as well. Which is preferable, dark or light soy sauce?

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      March 4, 2014 at 9:15 pm

      Aaaaaw, I found myself punching the air when I read your comment. Well done. I prefer dark soy sauce because the flavour is more intense.

      Reply
  12. AvatarHalima says

    August 21, 2014 at 1:58 am

    Dooney you are a life saver, on my way home from work I stopped at a naija store and bought smoked turkey on a whim, never bought it never cooked it…. Got home and started wondering what to cook and decided to search your blog for smoked turkey recipes and this popped up, I had pretty much all the ingredients at home, it was so delicious! Thank you so much. May God continue to bless you with this gift of yours
    Errrr what else would you recommend I cook with the remaining smoked turkey

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      August 28, 2014 at 3:42 pm

      Well done Halima, glad it worked for you. You can make it into stew

      Reply

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