Vegetable Lo Mein is a quick Lo Mein recipe which gets ready under 20 minutes. This best take out style Chinese noodle recipe is so good and tastes delicious. Try this Chinese restaurant style noodles for a weekday lunch or weeknight dinner.
What is veg lo Mein made up of?
Vegetable lo mein is a Chinese recipe in which vegetables are stir-fried and tossed in noodles. This is a Chinese comfort food.
Some variations of Lo Mein are as follows:
- Shrimp lo mein
- Chicken lo mein
- Egg lo mein
Difference between Lo mein and Chow Mein:
Chow mein means fried noodles and lo mein means stirred or tossed noodles. Both chow mein and lo mein noodles are made from wheat flour and eggs but the way they are cooked differs.
Ingredients used for making authentic vegetable Lo Mein noodles:
- Noodles: Use superior quality Lo Mein noodles for making this vegetarian Chinese noodle recipe.
- Vegetables: I have used several types of vegetables like red, green, yellow bell peppers, onion, carrots, green beans, and spring onions. I have also added mushroom in this Chinese recipe. You may also add peas, tofu, or eggs.
For making the easy Lo Mein sauce:
To a small bowl, add all the ingredients mentioned for sauce namely sriracha sauce, soy sauce, ginger paste, garlic paste, sesame oil and sugar and keep it aside.
How to make restaurant style vegetable Lo Mein?
- Add water and boil in a large deep bottomed pan. Add noodles and cook as per the instructions on the packet or al dente.
- After noodles are cooked, drain the water, and spread them on a colander. Pass running cold drinking water through the noodles so that the cooking process stops, and noodles do not stick to each other.
- Heat a skillet or wok and add oil. After oil gets heated, add garlic. After raw smell of garlic goes away, add onion, green, red, and yellow bell peppers, French beans, some spring onion greens, mushrooms and carrot and cook till the vegetables get slightly cooked, for about 8-10 minutes by stirring frequently.
- Add prepared sauce and mix well.
- Add the cooked noodles and toss.
- Garnish with spring onion greens.
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What is lo mein sauce made of?
Lo mein sauce is made with sriracha sauce, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, ginger ground into paste, sugar, sesame oil and garlic paste.
Why are my veggie lo mein noodles sticky?
You must continuously stir noodles during the first two minutes so that they do not stick to one another while getting cooked.
Do you put eggs in lo mein?
You may put eggs in Lo Mein just like in this egg Lo Mein recipe.
What to serve with lo mein noodles?
Serve honey chili potatoes or air fryer green beans as a side dish to go with lo mein.
Vegetable Lo Mein
Ingredients
- 1 packet vegetable lo mein noodle
- ½ green bell pepper julienned
- ½ red bell pepper julienned
- ½ yellow bell pepper julienned
- 1 onion julienned
- 1 carrot julienned
- 5 mushrooms sliced
- 5 French beans cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1/4 th cup spring onion greens chopped into 1-inch pieces
- To taste salt
- 2 tablespoon oil
For sauce:
- 1 teaspoon sriracha sauce
- 2 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- ½ teaspoon ginger ground into paste
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon garlic paste
Instructions
For making the Lo Mein sauce:
- To a small bowl, add all the ingredients mentioned for sauce namely sriracha sauce, soy sauce, ginger paste, garlic paste, sesame oil and sugar and keep it aside.
For making veg lo mein noodles:
- Add water and boil in a large deep bottomed pan. Add noodles and cook as per the instructions on the packet or al dente.
- After noodles are cooked, drain the water, and spread them on a colander.
- Pass running cold drinking water through the noodles so that the cooking process stops, and noodles do not stick to each other.
- Heat a skillet or wok and add oil. After oil gets heated, add garlic.
- After raw smell of garlic goes away, add onion, green, red, and yellow bell peppers, French beans, some spring onion greens, mushrooms and carrot and cook till the vegetables get slightly cooked, for about 8-10 minutes by stirring frequently.
- Add prepared sauce and mix well.
- Add the cooked noodles and toss.
- Garnish with spring onion greens.
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