Veggie Packed Chicken Lo Mein For Crowd

Ingredients:

for the chicken:
vi chicken thighs (about one 3/4 lb), cutting into bite-sized pieces
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
one tablespoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons soy sauce
one 1 1/2-inch knob ginger, grated
2 large cloves garlic, thinly sliced


sauce:

1/4 loving cup Shaoxing wine
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
2 tablespoons nighttime soy sauce
2 tablespoons soy sauce
one teaspoon sesame oil
1/2 tablespoon corn starch (optional)

for the veggies:

one pocket-size onion, sliced into half-moons
2 cloves garlic, sliced
one napa cabbage, sliced
2 zucchini, thinly sliced into batons (I genuinely used 8 babe zucchini)
2/3 loving cup matchstick carrots
one loving cup mung edible bean sprouts
8 ears (fresh) babe corn, halved lengthwise
8 oz crimini mushrooms, sliced
one bunch scallions, cutting into 1-inch pieces
2/3 loving cup snowfall peas


20 oz dried lo mein noodles

Directions:

THE NIGHT BEFORE (or at to the lowest degree 8 hrs) y'all desire to brand the lo mein, identify all of the chicken ingredients inwards a marinating container or resealable bag. Refrigerate.

When y'all desire to brand the lo mein. Bring a large pot of H2O to boil for the noodles. Whisk together the sauce ingredients, develop aside.

Add the chicken together with the marinade to a large, high walled skillet together with saute until the chicken is cooked. Remove to a bowl together with encompass to come about warm.

Add the onions together with garlic to the pan the chicken was in. Saute until the onions were softened. Add the remaining vegetables. Saute until the vegetables commencement to cook. Add nearly one-half of the sauce. Cover for v minutes or until the cabbage is well-wilted. Meanwhile, attain the noodles according to parcel instructions, drain. Uncover the vegetables together with saute until tender. Remove the vegetables to a really large bowl together with encompass to come about warm.

Return the chicken to the pan together with attain over medium rut for one minute. Stir inwards the noodles together with remaining sauce. If it looks dry, add together a drizzle of whatsoever (or all) of the sauce ingredients except the cornstarch) Toss until good combined. Add the chicken together with noodles to the vegetable bowl. Use tongs to toss together with evenly distribute all ingredients. Serve immediately.

Yield: nearly 6-8 servings

My thoughts:

There are a few things to come about inwards heed nearly this recipe. One, it is really, genuinely delicious! Two, it is a fair total of function for a dish that (three) is almost sure enough cheaper to purchase at your local American-Chinese takeout place.

That said, it is totally worth making (at to the lowest degree once) because it is really tasty together with I ever mean value it's fun to brand homemade versions of my favorite takeout dishes. You tin genuinely customize it amongst whatever vegetables y'all similar inwards lo mein. I lucked out together with establish some mung beans together with a mix of "baby" vegetables (snow peas, babe zucchini, together with babe corn) marked downwards for quick sale when I went to pick upward some snowfall peas thus I used that instead of a whole large zucchini together with added inwards babe corn which was genuinely cute together with added some crunch. I every bit good cheated together with picked upward a purse of matchstick carrots thus I didn't receive got to cutting them up. Another flim-flam is to spiralize the carrots and/or zucchini together with and thus cutting the "noodles" into 2-inch pieces. So much is going on correct now, I've been trying to give myself a interruption together with role some prepped vegetables similar the carrots when it isn't much to a greater extent than expensive together with the results would live on the same every bit me doing it myself. Is that self care? 

The results were amazing--all of my favorite lo mein vegetables together with super flavorful marinated chicken thighs--and super filling! It made a ton. Way, agency to a greater extent than than 2 people needed, fifty-fifty amongst dejeuner the side past times side twenty-four hr menstruation thus halve this recipe for salvage it for a twenty-four hr menstruation when y'all are feeding a crowd. All of the lo mein noodles I tin uncovering at whatsoever shop are 10 oz a purse which is a piddling pocket-size for 4 servings every bit a principal (read: only) dish but doubling it leaves y'all amongst a huge total of food. Not a bad employment to receive got when it is is this good!