When I saw this Panda Express copycat recipe for their chow mein on Damn Delicious I decided to make it for dinner. My kids love the chow mein at Panda Express and I really like that I can now make it at home. This recipe was very quick to make and tasted amazing. These noodles paired nicely with baked teriyaki chicken and a snow pea sauté. Who needs Chinese takeout when you can make it at home?!
Combine the soy sauce, minced garlic, brown sugar, grated ginger, and white pepper, together in a bowl; whisk until well combined. Set aside.
Heat the Yaki-Soba noodles in a pot of boiling water until loosened, about 1-2 minutes. Drain well.
Heat the canola oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add the onion and celery and cook, stirring often, for 3-4 minutes, or until tender. Add the cabbage until heated through, about 1 minute. Add the drained Yaki-Soba noodles and soy sauce mixture. Mix until well combined and evenly coated, about 2 minutes. Serve immediately. Enjoy.
Chow Mein
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 3 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 tbsp brown sugar packed
- 2 tsp fresh ginger grated
- 1/4 tsp white pepper
- 2 5.6 oz packages refrigerator Yaki-Soba, seasoning sauce packets discarded
- 1 tbsp canola oil
- 1/2 small sweet yellow onions sliced thinly
- 2 stalks of celery thinly sliced diagonally
- 1 1/2 cups of green cabbage shredded
Instructions
- Combine the soy sauce, minced garlic, brown sugar, grated ginger, and white pepper, together in a bowl; whisk until well combined. Set aside.
- Heat the Yaki-Soba noodles in a pot of boiling water until loosened, about 1-2 minutes. Drain well.
- Heat the canola oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add the onion and celery and cook, stirring often, for 3-4 minutes, or until tender. Add the cabbage until heated through, about 1 minute. Add the drained Yaki-Soba noodles and soy sauce mixture. Mix until well combined and evenly coated, about 2 minutes. Serve immediately. Enjoy.
A lovrly and delicious Chow Main Pam!
Thanks for this recipe. A must try. Pinned.
Looks great. In which section of the grocery did you find the Yakisoba noodles? Not sure I have ever seen them, but I would like to make this. My husband loves Panda Express, me not so much. 🙂
Cathy,
I found mine near the fresh pasta & tofu in the refrigerated section of my grocery store.
Pam
Looks very good Pam. For most of my youth chow mein came from a can as did the crispy noodles we ate it over – I’m guessing yours is a little better 🙂
i’ve never eaten chow mein, can you believe it? i think the best route might be to make it myself first, then branch out to take-out. 🙂
And since you can reduce the salt in it when you make it home, that makes your chow mein all the better!
I love chow mein. What a simple to the point recipe. I like how you photographed all the ingredients. I saw that and say easy peasy. Good jog.
My husband would love this – he is a chow mein fan.
My girls LOVE chow mein and this looks easy enough for me to try. Thanks SO much for sharing. Just hope I can find those noodles!
Yum! I hope you post the snow pea sauté recipe so I can create the entire delicious meal!
Where’s my MSG? 😉
Okay, I’ll throw some stir fried oyster mushrooms and shittake mushrooms in there to get it naturally. Great looking dish, Pam! I plan to make this, p
Oh man, I haven’t had chow mein in FOREVER but now I really am craving it!
OMG!!!! I made this tonight and my husband and I love love love it!!!! Thank you.
I need to search for this immediately! My youngest son loves them. I use to prohibit him from eating it but when I read about its benefits, I learned that noodles are enriched with egg whites, which provide substantial amounts of riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, iron and thiamin. I just need to put the right ingredients so that it turns out as healthy as what I want. Thanks for the share, you never fail to give as tips and great recipe ideas.