Serves 5

Ingredients

1 thumb-sized piece of ginger. 1 clove garlic. one-half - one red chilli, deseeded. 150g noodles. Drop of sesame seed oil. 1 onion, sliced. 2 carrots, shedded. 100g beansprouts. 50g mangetout. 1 red pepper, sliced. 1 yellow pepper, sliced. 100g mushrooms, sliced. 1 spring onion. Soya sauce.

Method Finely slice the chilli then peel and finely chop the ginger and garlic. Add a little water to this mixture to make a paste. Cook the noodles in boiling, salted water for 4 minutes, and refresh in cold water. Heat the sesame seed oil in a frying pan or wok and cook the chilli paste and onion for 10 minutes. Add the rest of the veggies until they�re cooked, but still crunchy. Add the noodles for a couple of seconds and combine. Drizzle with a little soy sauce.

This is one of the recipes featured in Jamie's School Dinners, adapted for cooking at home. www.jamieoliver.com