Howling Wild

String Green BowlPrep: 10m - Cook: 15m
No amounts given as it depends on you personal tastes, get experimental.
Generally try to keep a balance of 2/3 veg to 1/3 protein.

  • Spring greens
  • Olive oil
  • Garlic
  • Red onion
  • Salt
  • Black pepper (I’m heavy on black pepper)
  • Togarashi (Japanese 7-spice)
  • Protein choice:
    • Tofu
    • Lentils
    • Mock meat (I like the Vivera kebab you can get from Tesco)
    • Whatever else you want to throw on in there

  1. Skin and finely dice the red onion and garlic. You can use a food processor... or your murderously proficient knife skills.
  2. Now it's spring green prep time:
    1. Remove the chunky stem from the middle of the leaves.
    2. Clean all the leaves and get them reasonably dry.
    3. Place each of the leaves length ways on top of each other. Any small or random pieces can just be popped in the middle of the pile.
    4. Roll this up as tightly as you can and hold it in place at the end.
    5. Now, carefully slice through the leafy "snausage" as if you're chopping a carrot into circles.
    6. Voila, spring green noodles!
  3. Get a pan nice and toasty, somewhere in the medium to high region.
  4. Dollop some oil in there.
  5. Add your preferred amount of black pepper into the oil directly.
  6. Very quickly before that burns get your onion, garlic and togarashi in there.
  7. Mix all the stuff around and maybe drop the temperature to about medium.
  8. Prep your protein, for me using the faux-kebab it's just a case of throwing it in when ready.
  9. When the onion is a little translucent and the garlic has a little colour on it throw your protein in!
  10. Cook this out moving it around, adding a little more oil if needed.
  11. Just before your protein is done get your spring green noodles in there and disperse and mix that shit around.
  12. Cook until the "noodles" are vivid making sure to retain a bit of bite.
  13. Drop the heat, add salt and mix it all around.
  14. Grab a forkful and check it all tastes good. Adjust your seasoning if needed.
  15. Get that all out into a fancy bowl and it's time to nom nom nom...