Jul 09 2009
Everything Lo Mein (Except I used chicken!)
I’m participating in a blog challenge where you have to cook/bake one new recipe each week for 8 weeks, and each week has a theme. This past week’s theme was “Holiday” favorites. That’s open to major interpretation! I thought about holidays and tradition, and then I came up with genius! My family is jewish, and you know Jews get chinese food on Christmas!! So here you have Everything Lo Mein, courtesy of Rachael Ray:
Everything Lo Mein
Yields 4 servings
Ingredients
Sauce:
-3 rounded tablespoons hoisin sauce
-3 tablespoons dark soy, eyeball it
-3 tablespoons water, eyeball it
-2 teaspoons hot sauce, eyeball it
Everything Lo Mein:
-1 pound spaghetti
-Salt
-1/4 cup vegetable oil, divided
-2 large eggs, beaten
-3 chicken breast cutlets, thinly sliced into strips
-3 thin cut pork chops, thinly sliced into strips
-Black pepper
-2 teaspoons ground coriander
-2 inches fresh ginger, chopped or grated
-4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
-6 scallions, cut into 3-inch lengths then sliced lengthwise
-1/2 pound shiitake mushrooms, chopped
-1 red bell pepper, cut into quarters, seeded, then sliced
-1 small can sliced water chestnuts
-2 cups fresh bean sprouts, 4 generous handfuls or 1/2 pound shredded cabbage, your choice
Directions
1. Mix together sauce ingredients and reserve.
2. Bring pasta water to a boil, salt water and cook spaghetti to al dente.
3. While pasta cooks, heat a tablespoon of vegetable oil in a large, nonstick skillet over high heat. When oil ripples, add beaten eggs and scramble them to light golden brown, remove and reserve.
4. Season the meat with salt, pepper and coriander. Heat the remaining vegetable oil to a ripple, then add meat and stir-fry 4 minutes, push meat to the side and add ginger, garlic and veggies. Stir-fry veggies 2 minutes, then drain and add pasta and eggs back to skillet. Pour sauce over the spaghetti and toss to combine. Turn off pan. Toss 30 seconds and let the liquids absorb.
Since I don’t like pork, I only used chicken, but only about 3 cutlets. I also added in bamboo shoots and mini corns, and doubled the sauce in the end.
This recipe makes way more than the 4 servings it says. We still have leftovers from last week!
Also, make sure that your skillet is super large… mine was definitely not big enough!!
Enjoy!
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