🍜 Chicken chow mein

Name: Chicken chow mein
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: China · Guangdong
Ingredients: 200 g dried egg noodles; 250 g chicken breast, thinly sliced; 150 g bean sprouts; 200 g cabbage, finely shredded; 2 spring onions, 2 garlic cloves; 3 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tsp sesame oil; 1 tbsp vegetable oil, ½ tsp sugar, white pepper

Origin: China · Guangdong

770kcal

per serving · 350 g

220kcal

per 100 g

35 gProtein10 g / 100 g

28 gFat8 g / 100 g

94 gCarbs27 g / 100 g

Chow mein is a Chinese dish of egg noodles stir-fried with strips of chicken, crunchy bean sprouts and shredded cabbage, seasoned with soy sauce and a few drops of sesame oil. The noodles are partly crisp and partly soft, the vegetables still crunchy and the sauce savoury and light. It is served straight from the wok as a one-plate meal.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

Not vegetarianbecause of: chicken

Not veganbecause of: egg noodles, chicken

Contains glutenbecause of: egg noodles, soy sauce

Not keto27 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Eggs ⚠ Soy ⚠ Sesame

What it is made of

egg noodleschickenbean sproutscabbagesoy saucesesame oil

Recipe

2 servings25 min

Ingredients

200 g dried egg noodles
250 g chicken breast, thinly sliced
150 g bean sprouts
200 g cabbage, finely shredded
2 spring onions, 2 garlic cloves
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp vegetable oil, ½ tsp sugar, white pepper

Method

Cook the noodles according to the pack, drain, rinse and toss with ½ tsp sesame oil.
Mix the chicken with 1 tbsp soy sauce.
Heat the vegetable oil in a wok until very hot, stir-fry the chicken for 3–4 minutes and set aside.
Stir-fry the garlic and cabbage for 2 minutes, add the noodles and let them crisp a little against the wok.
Return the chicken, add the bean sprouts, the rest of the soy sauce, the sugar and pepper and toss for 1 minute. Finish with the remaining sesame oil and spring onions.

How to make it lighter

Double the cabbage and bean sprouts and use 150 g noodles instead of 200 g.
Use a non-stick wok so 1 tbsp oil is enough (1 tbsp oil ≈ 120 kcal).
Measure the sesame oil with a spoon — it is for aroma, a teaspoon is plenty.

History

Chow mein, Cantonese for 'fried noodles', comes from southern China. Chinese emigrants carried it to North America, Britain and elsewhere in the 19th and 20th centuries, where it became one of the best-known dishes of Chinese restaurants.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →