Chicken Chow Mein Recipe | Chinese Noodles | 🍝 MasalaHerb.com (2024)

Published: Feb 21, 2020 · Modified: Sep 21, 2022 by Helene Dsouza

A quick and easy chicken chow mein recipe to make at home within 20 minutes!

This dish is healthier than the takeout version as it contains less sodium and I dare to say that it tastes better!

Stuffed with gorgeous flavors, Chinese cuisine is definitely one of our Asian foods.

This chicken chow mein is all your if you are starting to learn how to make Chinese noodle dishes at home.

This dish is healthy or let's say it's healthier than your take-out meal because you know what's in it!

📕 What is Chow Mein?

Chow Mein is a Chinese Cantonese noodle dish.

Noodles are quickly stir-fried over high heat with other ingredients.

The egg noodles are traditionally made from wheat flour from scratch, but crispy hard noodles are commonly used all over the world.

In fact, noodle dishes such as the chicken chow mein are a popular takeaway dish across the Asian continent, in America and Europe.

Chow Mein vs. Low Mein vs. other Asian noodle stir fries?

Chow Mein noodles are dry stir cooked. A low mein dish is usually a wet noodle dish.

However, in the US, low mein and chow mein are often while called the same thing.

Chow means to stir cook/ fry, and Mein means noodles.

You will also come across other traditional Asian noodle stir fries such as chicken yaki udon or chicken yakisoba and then there are always Asian inspired dishes such as this Chicken Ramen Stir Fry.

🔪 How to make it?

To make this chicken chow mein you will need to prep the ingredients first before you start to stir cook.

Read up the complete recipe card located at the bottom of this post. The how-to video is the pop up on mobile.

Step 1

Prepare and keep your ingredients ready: carrots, green onions, cabbage, chicken, ginger and garlic.

Prepare your stir fry sauce by mixing the ingredients together.

Step 2

Cook your noodles according to package instructions.

Heat up shallow pan or wok with oil and stir cook your ingredients quickly.

Step 3

Add noodles to the wok and pour stir fry sauce over noodles.

Stir cook and mix until you are satisfied with the result.

Serve hot.

📜 Variations

You can pep up, enhance or make your chicken chow mein to suit your dietary needs. This is how!

• scramble in eggs
• make it spicy by adding hot sauce or chili flakes
• add baby bok choy or other leafy greens such as spinach
• add bean sprouts
• add broccoli or other vegetables such as celery stalks
• bring out the umami with msg (I avoid because mine is low sodium)
• use noodles without egg to make it eggless
• with homemade egg noodles
• use gluten-free Chinese noodles to make gluten-free
• with leftover chicken

Don't use spaghetti noodles instead of Chinese egg noodles. It's just not the same. Just don't (getting hysterical)!

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👁️ More Noodle Dinner Bowls

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• Shrimp Chow Mein
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