Chinese
Chicken Lo Mein
Chicken Lo Mein is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 lb fresh wheat lo mein noodles
- 1 lb chicken breasts
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 2 carrots
- 3 cups napa cabbage
- 1 bell pepper
- 4 scallions
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2 tbsp neutral oil
How to cook it
- Boil the lo mein noodles until just tender, then drain and toss with a little sesame oil.
- Stir the soy sauce, oyster sauce, remaining sesame oil, and sugar together for the sauce.
- Heat the neutral oil in a wok over high heat and stir-fry the sliced chicken until cooked through, about 5 minutes.
- Add the garlic, ginger, carrots, cabbage, and bell pepper and stir-fry until crisp-tender, about 4 minutes.
- Add the noodles and sauce and toss until everything is coated and hot, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in the scallions and serve.
Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Lo Mein, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Lo Mein carries gluten, shellfish, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Turkey Lettuce Wraps |
| Shellfish | Yes | Braised Eggplant and Tofu |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Mapo Tofu |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chicken Lo Mein takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, noodle, cabbage, and carrot.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.