Tsuivan (Mongolian noodle stir-fry)

I have a friend who is SUPER into Mongolian stuff, he has a Mongolian persona in the SCA and his home is adorned with many Mongolian accouterments as well. So when I wanted to make some traditional Mongolian food to bring over to his house (To go with some Kefir/Airag) I stumbled across a recipe for Tsuivan, which is more or less Central Asian tasting lo mein. It's super super easy and I can't see many people not liking it, I know we do. I would also venture to say that this dish is most likely acceptable to use for SCA period Mongol cuisine, though I am open to any arguments against it.

(I put a little homemade (absolutely not medieval) hot oil on there too)

My version here is well within the spirit of the dish, but with a few changes to suit our tastes. In Mongolia they will use slices of meat, but here I used ground beef and it was great, also they often eat it with ketchup, but since I feel like that's pretty far away from my general idea of Central Asian food, we eat it with a mix of sour cream and yogurt, and mine has a MUCH higher percentage of veggies to noodles because we live on the edge of a diet at all times, and love vegetables anyway haha.

Yield: 6 big plates worth

Ingredients

1 lb fettuccine broken into thirds and boiled until tender

1 ½ lbs ground meat (fatty ground beef or lamb is the best)

5 cloves of garlic minced

2 onions in thin 3 inch long slices

2.5 lbs of cabbage cut into very thin (like coleslaw) 3 inch slices

3 carrots thinly julienned to match the cabbage

2 tsp cumin seeds

2 tsp cumin powder

2 tsp coriander powder

1 TBS black pepper

salt to taste

1 bunch of green onions in thin diagonal slices

Method

Fry the meat until browned at med-high in a nice big thick bottomed pot

Add garlic and cumin seeds and fry for 20 seconds

Add onions and cook for a minutes

Add cabbage and carrots with salt, coriander and cumin powder

Fry this mix until all the veggies are very tender

Add your cooked noodles and mix well

Continue to cook until the noodles are hot again

Add your green onions, pepper, and salt to taste

Eat it with sour cream, or try it with ketchup if that's your kind of party.