Vegetable Lo Mein
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.
Servings 4 People
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.