Easy No Hassle Lo Mein Recipe

Personally, I love Chinese food, especially Lo Mein. This is a cost and time effective dinner capable of feeding six hearty portions. If you have some of the sauces (the items that lie on the expensive side) you can have dinner for less than three dollars a person, now you can't beat that! I have developed this recipe over the last couple years to serve a family style setting in a quick and cost effective manner. This is the closet you're going to get to take out on your own stove. I hope you enjoy!

Shopping list

3 Tbls vegetable oil

1 Tbls Sesame seed oil

5 Tbls Tamari sauce

5 Tbls hoisin sauce

2 Tbls Oyster sauce (optional)

2 carrots Peeled sliced into match stick pieces

2 scallions rough chopped

12 ounce package of lo mein noodles

1 oz package or fresh snow peas (in the pod)

1 5 oz can of bamboo shoots

1 5 oz can of water chest nuts

1 cup frozen peas1 red bell pepper julienned

1 lb par frozen chicken breast (in order to slice it very thin)

2 Tbls ginger minced

2 cloves garlic minced

1 8 oz package or shitake mushrooms (sliced thick)

First start boiling water to cook your lo mein noodles (follow instructions on package usually around 5-7 minutes).After noodles are cooked to your liking strain and cool immediately rinsing under running cold water, this will prevent them from cooking any further. (Make sure not to over cook your noodles when the finished product will come out gummy, far from appetizing) While your noodles are boiling start prepping your other ingredients. Next, preheat your wok (or other cooking vessel) to medium-high heat. Start by adding your ginger and garlic to the oil, quickly after add your more durable veggies to the mix (i.e. red bell peppers and carrots), sauté for approximately 1 minute. Then add snow peas, frozen peas, mushrooms, and scallions, Sauté for approximately 1 minute. Follow by adding your thin sliced chicken breast, cook thoroughly. Now, add your cooled lo mein noodles to your wok, followed by your tamari, hoisin, and oyster sauce and heat through and mix thoroughly. Lastly, you want you add the bamboo shoots and water chest nuts last to just heat through. These things are already cooked so they just need to be heated up after this your ready to eat!

Note: this is a constant process there should be no time at which you are not around/near the stove.