Pancit

Name: Pancit
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 8 oz rice noodles (thin bihon); 1 lb chicken (thigh, thin strips); 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 unit onion (sliced); 4 clove garlic (minced); 1 unit carrot (matchsticks); 3 cup cabbage (green, shredded); 2 cup chicken stock; 3 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tbsp fish sauce; ½ tsp black pepper; 2 unit scallions (sliced); 2 unit lime (wedges — calamansi if you can find them)

Noodles & Rice · Southeast Asian

13 ingredients · 40 minutes · 2 servings

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984kcal52.9g protein32.1g fat121.5g carbs~$3.83/ serving*

Contains soy, fish · usually contains gluten · only in an optional ingredient: shellfish

Restrictions

Containssoy · fishIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Usually containsgluten (soy sauce → Tamari)The usual version has it. One without it exists — it is the one named here.

Only if you add itshellfish (shrimp)Leave that ingredient out and the dish does not have it.

Diets

No porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

8 oz	rice noodles (thin bihon)
1 lb	chicken (thigh, thin strips)
2 tbsp	vegetable oil
1 unit	onion (sliced)
4 clove	garlic (minced)
1 unit	carrot (matchsticks)
3 cup	cabbage (green, shredded)
2 cup	chicken stock
3 tbsp	soy sauce
1 tbsp	fish sauce
½ tsp	black pepper
2 unit	scallions (sliced)
2 unit	lime (wedges — calamansi if you can find them)

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

1 lb	shrimp (with the chicken)

Steps

Prep10 min
noodles soaked in warm water until pliable
- rice noodles
bihon in warm (not boiling) water until bendable but still firm — they finish cooking in the broth later, and noodles boiled now will be mush by the time they hit the pan; drain and snip once or twice through the tangle
Sear5 min
medium-high
- chicken
chicken in the oil until browned at the edges and just cooked, set aside — the pan keeps its fond for the vegetables
Saute4 min
medium-high, onion then garlic then carrot
until the onion softens and the carrot barely bends — the cabbage waits; it needs ninety seconds, not four minutes
Simmer3 min
stock + soy + fish sauce + pepper, brought to a boil
poured into the pan and scraped — this seasoned broth is about to disappear entirely into the noodles, which is the pancit method in one sentence: the noodles are cooked BY the sauce, so nothing is ever bland and nothing ever pools
Toss6 min
noodles in, tossed until the liquid is gone
the soaked noodles + cabbage + the chicken back in, turned constantly with tongs as the bihon drinks the broth — done when the pan is glossy but dry and the noodles are tender with a slight chew
Top1 min
- scallions
- lime
scallions over, lime wedges beside — the squeeze at the table is not garnish, it is the finishing acid the dish is built to receive; on a birthday the long noodles mean long life, and you do not cut them