Chinese
Chicken Lo Mein
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Boil the lo mein noodles until just tender, then drain and toss with a little sesame oil.
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Stir the soy sauce, oyster sauce, remaining sesame oil, and sugar together for the sauce.
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Heat the neutral oil in a wok over high heat and stir-fry the sliced chicken until cooked through, about 5 minutes.
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Add the garlic, ginger, carrots, cabbage, and bell pepper and stir-fry until crisp-tender, about 4 minutes.
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Add the noodles and sauce and toss until everything is coated and hot, about 2 minutes.
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Stir in the scallions and serve.
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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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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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 | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| 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
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 440 kcal
- Protein
- 26 g
- Carbs
- 52 g
- Fat
- 14 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 6 g
- Sodium
- 780 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
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.
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