Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Lo Mein – The perfect and healthy recipe for busy nights of the week with authentic restaurant-quality ingredients. Best of all, ONLY 15 minutes to prepare and much better than takeaway. Do it for your weekly meal preparation and leftovers make great working lunches. Plus a video!
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What dish comes to mind when you think of comfort food? Ours is definitely anything with noodles or pasta. I can’t even start picking a favorite from this LIST. Totally the best comfort food!
Along with chow mein and fried rice, Lo Mein is the perfect dish for cleaning the fridge. It is a super easy dish to customize. Cook with your favorite vegetables and any protein you want.
Beef, shrimp, pork or tofu, you decide!
This easy chicken lo mein is one of our favorite takeaway dishes and is prepared in just 30 minutes. Since I’m crazy about clay pot recipes, I decided one day to try it in my slow cooker.
The flavors came out SO amazing and it was seriously the best decision ever!
Some useful tips to keep in mind for this easy slow cooker chicken Lo Mein:
- Season the chicken with salt and pepper and then pour the sauce over
- Add the vegetables and dry noodles fresh precooked or cooked NEAR the end or JUST BEFORE serving. This will ensure that the noodles do NOT become too soft and soft.
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- Change it with your favorite vegetables. I used baby bok choy and carrots here and have also used snow peas, baby corn or peppers successfully in the past.
- Use pork instead of extra firm or fried chicken or tofu like this vegetarian version
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Some tips for preparing meals:
- Wash and cut all vegetables ahead of time and store them in a [amazon_textlink asin=’B001KWMERO’ text=’zip-top freezer bag’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’lifmadswe09-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’e649db38-47e6-11e8-8d64-d51b8cc3c1c0′]
- Make the noodles the day before and store them in an airtight container in the fridge
- Weekly meal preparation or leftovers can be packed in [amazon_textlink asin=’B073TRZ91C’ text=’lunch containers’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’lifmadswe09-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’efa2479e-47e6-11e8-9cc0-57e0fa3210a4′] for the week
in the fridge Mix the sauce ingredients the day before and store in an airtight container in the fridge
If you don’t have a slow cooker, try my Easy Chicken Lo Mein or these Easy Shrimp Lo Mein noodles. The flavors are really amazing and as authentic as you will get.
This dish is constantly in our dinner rotation because my husband declares it the best ever.
The recipe has now been repeated a total of more than a million times, even after a confusion with the URL change!
It is one of the most popular recipes on this blog. Since then I have updated the photos twice and the recipe to make it easier and now I even added a short video to show the steps:
If you want to find more easy and authentic Asian slow cooker recipes The Asian Slow Cooker cookbook is now available for sale HERE. It was named one of the BEST books of 2016 by The Washington Post with Ina Garten and Donna Hay.
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