Lunch

Chicken Chow Mein-Style Egg Noodles

Name: Chicken Chow Mein-Style Egg Noodles
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 150 g Chicken breast; 130 g Cooked egg noodles; 80 g White cabbage; 50 g Carrot; 30 g Spring onion; 1 clove, about 3 g Garlic; 1 tbsp (15 g) Oyster sauce; 1 tbsp (15 g) Soy sauce; 6 g Rapeseed oil

Chicken strips and cabbage stir-fried with egg noodles in oyster and soy sauce. 44 g of protein for 487 kcal, and less oil than the takeaway version by some distance.

Calories: 487kcal
Protein: 44g
Fat: 13g
Carbs: 47g

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

Allergens

Gluten
Eggs
Molluscs
Soya

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 noodles130 g
Cooked weight.
White cabbage80 g
Carrot50 g
Spring onion30 g
Garlic1 clove, about 3 g
Oyster sauce1 tbsp (15 g)
Soy sauce1 tbsp (15 g)
Rapeseed oil6 g

Method

Cut the chicken into thin strips, the cabbage into ribbons and the carrot into matchsticks. Mix the oyster and soy sauce in a cup.
Fry the chicken in the oil over the highest heat for three minutes until it has colour and is no longer pink. Add the garlic, carrot and cabbage and toss for two minutes.
Add the noodles and the sauce and keep everything moving for a minute until the noodles are hot and coated. Finish with the spring onion.

Worth knowing

A takeaway chow mein is fried in far more oil than this and typically lands around double the calories. The 6 g here is enough in a hot pan; the sauce does the rest.
Oyster sauce is mostly sugar and salt and carries a molluscs flag. Doubling it makes the dish sweeter and adds about 15 kcal, which is not the problem; the salt is.

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

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