Dinner

Chicken Chow Mein

Name: Chicken Chow Mein
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 150 g Chicken breast; 140 g Cooked egg noodles; 100 g White cabbage; 60 g Carrot; 30 g Spring onion; 1 clove, about 3 g Garlic; A thumb, in matchsticks Fresh ginger; 20 g Soy sauce; Half a tsp (2 g) Toasted sesame oil; 4 g Rapeseed oil; White pepper if you have it Black pepper

Egg noodles tossed with sliced chicken, cabbage, carrot and spring onion in soy and sesame. 44 g of protein for 497 kcal.

Calories: 497kcal
Protein: 44g
Fat: 13g
Carbs: 49g

Per serving, makes 1. 15 minutes of work. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Gluten
Eggs
Soya
Sesame

Ordinary soy sauce is brewed with wheat. Tamari is brewed without wheat and is a separate ingredient here.

Flags follow UK labelling rules and come from the ingredients as listed, not from any particular brand. Check the packet before cooking for somebody with an allergy.

Ingredients

Chicken breast150 g
Weighed raw. The same piece weighed after cooking has lost water, so the protein per gram is higher and the total would come out about a quarter over.
Cooked egg noodles140 g
About 60 g dry. Weigh them cooked and drained. Cooked weight.
White cabbage100 g
Carrot60 g
In matchsticks so it cooks as fast as the cabbage.
Spring onion30 g
Garlic1 clove, about 3 g
Fresh gingerA thumb, in matchsticks
Soy sauce20 g
Toasted sesame oilHalf a tsp (2 g)
Rapeseed oil4 g
Black pepperWhite pepper if you have it

Method

Cook and drain the noodles, rinse them under the cold tap and shake them dry so they do not clump.
Fry the sliced chicken in the rapeseed oil over a very high heat for three minutes until it browns, then add the garlic, ginger, shredded cabbage and carrot for two minutes.
Add the noodles and the soy and toss with tongs for two minutes until the noodles catch a little on the wok.
Finish with the spring onion, sesame oil and pepper.

Worth knowing

Rinsing and drying the noodles is the difference between stir-fried noodles and a wet pile. Damp noodles steam and stick.
The soy sauce is the only seasoning and 20 g is close to 3 g of salt. The takeaway version has that much oil again on top.

Other dinner recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every dinner between 450 and 600 calories a serving.

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