Vegetable Chow Mein Recipe

4.86 from 7 votes

A simple flavor-packed vegetable chow mein recipe, which you can adjust. Skip the delivery and make it fresh at home in under 30 minutes.

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Total Time20

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Chinese

Servings: servings

Calories: 364kcal

Prepare the stir fry sauce. Mix the soy sauce, vinegar, chili sauce, and sugar together. Keep aside.
3 Tablespoons Soy Sauce, 1 Tablespoon Rice Vinegar, 2 Teaspoon Chili Sauce, ½ Tablespoon Sugar
Prepare your veggies, shred cabbage, cut carrots into matchsticks, separate green onion bulb from the stalks. Slice onion bulb and stalks but keep them separate.
⅔ cup Carrot, 1 cup Green Cabbage, 3 Green Onions
Grab a pot and fill it with water to cook the noodles. Let it boil and then add all the noodles. Get a timer and time it at 3 minutes (or prepare according to packet instructions). We need to cook the noodles half way, or they will get mushy while stir-frying.
7 ounces Lo Mein Noodles
Place your wok or large pan over a low fire and add the oil and stir-fry your Ginger and Garlic and sliced onion bulbs shortly.
2 Tablespoons Oil, 1 Tablespoon Ginger + Garlic
Then add the shredded cabbage and carrot and stir-fry on high heat for 1–2 minutes so that the ingredients get slightly soft.
Now stir in the cooked noodles.
Pour the previously prepared sauce and 2 tablespoons of water, over the noodles. Stir-fry and mix the whole content for 2 minutes on high heat, or until all the ingredients are slightly soft (don't overcook!). The content should not stick to the wok.
2 Tablespoon Water
Finish by topping the noodles with the sliced green onion stalks and serve hot directly.

Use fresh Ginger and Garlic chopped fine (⅔ garlic and ⅓ ginger ratio) or Ginger Garlic Paste (convenient and mixes in easily).
You can try this recipe with more or other vegetables. See vegetable ingredient suggestion in the post, above this recipe card.
You can also break in an egg right after stir frying the vegetables by making some space in the pan and pushing vegetables to the border. The egg is then cooked on high heat for a minute and then you just need to break the egg into pieces and you can continue to sitr cook and add the remaining ingredients.