Chicken Chow Mein

When I’m craving Chinese food, I make this dish along with veggie fried rice and homemade egg rolls. It’s all the great flavors of your favorite restaurant, but in the comfort of your own home. Chow mein is a classic Chinese dish found on almost every Chinese restaurant menu. There’s something about noodles, veggies and chicken in a savory sauce makes for an amazing dinner. While I like to order chow mein at the restaurant, I also love to make this delicious dish at home! You can too, with this easy recipe!

Chicken Chow Mein Ingredients

When you make chicken chow mein you will need vegetable oil, chicken breast, chow mein noodles, yellow onion, carrots, celery, garlic, cabbage, soy sauce, honey, sesame oil, green onion, salt and black pepper.

How do you make chicken chow mein?

You can cook chicken chow mein by sauteing chicken with a little salt and black pepper. While the chicken is cooking, boil the noodles. When the chicken is done, add onions, carrots and celery to the pan and cook until they are softened. Cook garlic in the pan and add the noodles and shredded cabbage. Toss everything with a sauce that contains honey, soy sauce and sesame oil. Add green onions and serve!

Tips for chicken chow mein

You probably already have most of the ingredients for this recipe except for the chow mein noodles. I found dried chow mein noodles in the international aisle of my grocery store, they come in 6 ounce packages and cook very quickly. If you can’t find chow mein noodles, refrigerated yaki soba noodles are a great substitute, I use them in my shrimp chow mein recipe, and as a bonus you don’t even have to boil them! You can also try similarly shaped egg noodles or lo mein noodles. I use a mandoline to cut my vegetables thin so that they cook quickly.

Flavor Variations

This dish is so easy to make, and I love that it’s easy to customize too.

Veggies: You can change up the veggies by adding bell peppers, mushrooms, snow peas, baby corn or other favorites. Meat: You can use chicken thighs instead of breasts for a more tender meat. You can even add other protein like shrimp, pork or beef. My local Chinese restaurant makes a ten ingredient chow mein that’s loaded with every type of add-in you can imagine, maybe I’ll try making that one at home next time. Tofu: For a vegetarian version feel free to substitute extra firm tofu for the chicken. Toppings: You can garnish the dish with sesame seeds or bean sprouts. Flavorings: You can cook a little minced ginger with the garlic or add a little oyster sauce or hoisin sauce to the recipe for some different flavors.

The next time you’re about to pick up the phone and call for take out, hang up and make your own chicken chow mein instead! It’s done in about the time it would take you to drive to the restaurant to pick up your order, so keep a package of chow mein noodles in the pantry for when the craving strikes.