by HollyChicken Lo Mein is a favorite around here, and this easy homemade version is one we love! Fresh egg noodles, delicious hoisin grilled chicken and tons of tender, crisp veggies tossed in a delicious homemade lo mein sauce!
What is Chicken Lo Mein?
We love Lo Mein because I love the combination of tender egg noodles, bean sprouts and lots of mixed fresh vegetables. I love to cook at home because I do love being able to add in my favorite vegetables and customize a dish to my liking! This easy Lo Mein recipe is full of flavor.
What is the Sauce Used in Lo Mein?
The Lo Mein sauce in this recipe is quick and easy to make with a few staples I keep in my fridge. I love the flavor of hoisin, and use it to marinate the chicken so I also add it into the sauce.
If you’re not familiar with Hoisin Sauce, it’s a sweet Chinese sauce often used to glaze meats or add flavor to stir-fries or dips. It’s one of my personal favorites to drizzle on lettuce wraps, add to Stir Fries or to marinate meat before grilling (it’s an excellent chicken marinade). You can find it in the international aisle of most grocery stores or online. If you don’t have hoisin, teriyaki sauce is a good substitute.
The ingredients are simply mixed together and simmered until thickened.
What is the difference between Lo Mein and Chow Mein?
People often confuse Chicken Lo Mein with Chow Mein. While the dishes are very similar, one major difference is the noodles.
Lo Mein uses a soft noodle while Chow Mein uses a crispy fried noodle. Both dishes are delicious and it just boils down to personal preference. The noodles I use in this easy Lo Mein recipe are fresh egg noodles and they are often found in the produce area of your grocery store (or where the wonton wrappers are). You can also sometimes find them in the freezer section.
How to Make Lo Mein Your Way
The best part is that Chicken Lo Mein is very versatile! While I use red peppers, you can add in whatever veggies are in your fridge… broccoli, mushrooms, peppers… pretty much anything can go into this! Have leftover chicken? Chop it up and use that instead of the grilled chicken for an extra quick dish!
Looking for something different? You can replace the chicken with shrimp for an amazing Shrimp Lo Mein (you’ll need to adjust the grilling time just until the shrimp is cooked through) or even use beef or lean pork in place of chicken. The possibilities with this Lo Mein are endless!
More Chinese Food Favorites
- Baked Chinese Chicken and Rice
- Crispy Homemade Egg Roll
- Homemade Sweet and Sour Sauce
- Crab Rangoon (Crab & Cream Cheese filled Wontons)
- Skillet Orange Chicken Recipe – Family favorite
- Easy Fried Rice Recipe – So fast and easy!
- Bang Bang Shrimp
- Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry – Weeknight meal
- Shrimp Lo Mein
- Chicken Chop Suey
Chicken Lo Mein
Prep Time 15 minutes
Servings 4 servings
Ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- ½ red pepper , finely sliced
- 8 oz bean sprouts
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 4 cloves garlic , minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh grated ginger
- 4 scallions , chopped & divided
- 1 package fresh egg noodles (8-10 oz. Asian style)
- ½ cup Hoisin sauce
- Pea Shoots (optional)
Sauce
- ½ cup chicken broth (we use low sodium)
- 4 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons Hoisin Sauce
- 2 tablespoons Oyster Sauce
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 4 teaspoons corn starch
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Instructions
- Pound chicken breasts to ½ inch thick. Marinate in Hoisin sauce 30 minutes (or up to 4 hours).
- Chop scallions and set the green part aside.
- Combine all sauce ingredients and mix well. Grill chicken over medium heat about 5 minutes each side or until cooked through. Slice diagonally.
- Cook noodles according to package directions (mine were "boil 1 minute").
- Heat oil in a large pan or wok over medium heat. Add scallions, ginger and garlic. Cook until fragrant (about 1 minute). Add red pepper slices and cook 1 minute.
- Add cooked noodles, bean sprouts, sliced chicken and sauce. Stir over medium heat until sauce is thickened (about 2 minutes). Top with scallion greens and pea shoots.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition Information
(Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.)
Being only 1 person, I wouldn’t mind giving this recipe for Lo Mein a try, but, it really needs to be divided down so it for one person, so would halving the ingredients make a difference in the outcome and could I use rotisserie chicken cut up instead of grilled?
Hi Kurt,
This is so good that I highly recommend making this for one. Half the ingredients, by all means use the rotisserie chicken; it will taste great! I hope you enjoy it!
To much corn starch kind of slimey
Sorry to hear that Benjamin. We have made this recipe with great success.
If I doubled the amount of sauce would it keep to have it ahead? Not frozen but in a glass jar in the fridge?
This sauce should last 4-5 days in the fridge.
I have made this several times and it’s always a hit with my family. I omit the bean sprouts and use a whole red pepper. Yum!!
Glad your family loves it Julia!
I loved this one! I just wished I used the reduced sodium broth, otherwise yummy!
So glad you loved it Belinda!
Trying this tonight. So excited
Let me know how you like it Jackie!
This looks great! Would it lose flavor without the bean sprouts and scallions?
You can leave them out if you prefer. I like them for a little bit of freshness and the bean sprouts add a bit of crunch.
These look amazing! I’m gluten free though, what noodles would you recommend?
I haven’t cooked with gluten free noodles so I can’t say for sure. Perhaps a spaghettini would work well.
This was amazing! Made it with broccoli, orange peppers, chicken thighs, and angel hair pasta because that is what I had. So much flavor. Will be making this again and again!
This is a great recipe. I’ve made it twice now when craving takeout. It’s better than takeout! My husband and kids love it. I put less sesame oil and extra ginger because that’s what we like and it’s delicious.
So glad you love it!
This is a phenomenal recipe! I used boneless thighs, which I prefer and I added some sauteed mushrooms (on my hubby’s cuz he loves them) Otherwise I followed this recipe to a “T”. I’ll be making this regularly! It was so-o easy and quick! I cooked my chicken out on my gas grill so, no pan there! I did my mushrooms first and removed them from the pan and completed the rest of the recipe in the same pan. I highly recommend this recipe, even for beginner cooks, it’s that easy!
I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe Alice!
Very good. I substituted green cabbage, that I stir fried with the garlic, pepper and scallion, for the bean sprouts.
I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe!
I don’t like hoisin. Should I substitute all oyster sauce?
Hoisin really adds a lot of flavor to this recipe so leaving it out would definitely change the flavor profile. You could try substituting black bean sauce or brown bean sauce.
Just made this… and literally had to stop eating to say how delicious it is!!!
I am so glad you liked the recipe Amber!
What is a good substitute for the fresh Asian style egg noodles? Not available where I live.
Thank you
As the noodles are precooked I do think any type of noodle would work in this dish. I would suggest a thinner noodle and be sure not to rinse the noodles so the starch will pick up the sauce.
Can you omit the oyster sauce or use something different? Would love to make this but I have a seafood allergy.
You can omit it or substitute a little bit of hoisin for the oyster sauce.
My problem is with the fresh noodles
Can you substitute any other kind?
As the noodles are precooked I do think any type of noodle would work in this dish. I would suggest a thinner noodle and be sure not to rinse the noodles so the starch will pick up the sauce.
I am very pleased to see this recipe in your column. Others have seemed bland so cannot wait to try this one.
This is AMAZING! Thank you!!
You’re so welcome! :)
It says marinade in hoison sauce but hoison sauce is really thick, do you cut it?
No but there is only 2 tablespoons of hoisin sauce in 1/2 cup of broth so there is no need.