Chicken Lo Mein

Chicken Lo Mein is a typical dish of very versatile and tasty Chinese cuisine. The reason for this is that it can be prepared with a wide variety of ingredients, such as vegetables, pork and shrimp.

If you are a lover of the Eastern food you should not miss this recipe, because despite having a level of complexity a little high, the result that it will be worth it. We decided to do it with vegetables, but you can do it with your favorite ingredients:

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
• 1 pound angel hair pasta
• 1 cup of chicken broth
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons of sesame oil
• 1 teaspoon of cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped ginger
• 1 package of frozen vegetables
• 1 pound chicken breast without skin

Preparation

Cut the chicken breast into small, bite-size strips. Necessary to cook the pasta, reminds that the ideal is that you add it to the water when it is bubbling, because in this way will reduce and optimize the cooking time and avoid that the dough is too soft. Drain and rinse with cold water and reserve in a bowl.
In a bowl, mix the sauce hoisin, broth, soy sauce, sesame oil and cornstarch. Stir everything until you have as a result a homogeneous liquid.
Put a frying pan to heat over medium heat, add a tablespoon of vegetable oil and fry the ginger after chop it finely. Add onion and, after two minutes, incorporates vegetables to prepare. Stir everything until the vegetables take glitter and set aside on a plate.
Add another tablespoon of oil and in the same pan, Saute chicken the next. We must do this for three minutes, that will be enough time for the chicken is no longer pink. When taken a white, deposit it in a container different from the veggies.
Back in the fire pan, but this time put fried pasta, vegetables and sauce you had reserved. When have mixed them, well lower the fire a little and leave the sauce to lose a little liquid.

Once the sauce has been reduced, adds chicken and returns to move, let that you cook for five minutes and removed your preparation of the fire.
Now helping you with a spatula or large spoon, mix everything again, let cool for two to three minutes, and proceeds to serve your chicken Lo Mein a very colorful salad .

Additional tips

• You can use any type of pasta, provided this is thin.
• In this recipe we use as main ingredient the chicken and vegetables, but this can vary greatly. This dish works well with pork, so you can make combinations, and even mix different types of meat in a single dish.
• The hoisin sauce may be made of the way home and is very tasty. It is made by mixing fine black bean paste, honey, white vinegar, soy sauce, garlic powder, sesame oil and black pepper.
• If you don't have chicken broth, you can use a cube of broth diluted in a cup of water.
• The ideal would be to use fresh vegetables, keep in mind that you must cook them individually before attaching them to the preparation, can be carrots, beans, peas, paprika or any other vegetable that know well with pasta.
• Keep in mind that the broth will be depending on the main ingredients that is your equal recipe.
• It is recommended to rinse with cold water to avoid that it continue cooking noodles.

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