Instant Pot Chicken Lo Mein
Easy chicken lo mein in an Instant Pot makes for a quick and family-friendly one pot main dish meal.
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ lb spaghetti broken in half
- 3 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 2 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 2 tablespoon minced ginger
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- ½ large onion thinly sliced
- 5-6 mushrooms thinly sliced
- ½ cup sliced carrots
- 1 cup broccoli florets
- 1 cup sugar snap peas halved
- 1 lb chicken thighs cut into bite-sized strips
Instructions
- In this order add the chicken broth, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, minced ginger, and minced garlic to the Instant Pot. Give the sauce a gentle stir.
- Break the spaghetti noodles in half and place half of the noodles going one direction and the other half of the noodles going the other direction, making a crisscross pattern.
- Gently press the spaghetti noodles down into the liquid, but do not stir. Add the chicken, onion, mushrooms, and carrots on top of the chicken and do not stir. (TIP: The reason you don't want to stir is that mixing all of the ingredients together at this point could cause a burn signal and mess up the dish.)
- Put the lid on the Instant Pot and Pressure Cook manually for 4 minutes. Do a Quick Release of the pressure.
- Add the broccoli florets and sugar snap peas and combine all of the ingredients together.
- Turn the Instant Pot off, put the lid back on the pot and let the dish "rest" for 5 minutes.
- Enjoy! Serve as a one-pot meal or with a salad or other Asian sides.
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Notes
It's easy to adapt the recipe and use a variety of vegetables. The firmer/thicker vegetables should get added to the pot along with the chicken. If you're adding quick-cooking veggies or thin vegetables like matchstick carrots, you'll add them at the end with the broccoli and sugar snap peas.
Many vegetables only take 1 minute to cook in an Instant Pot, like broccoli, you CAN add them with the chicken but it would turn out very soft or mushy instead of being crisp tender.
Chicken breast cubes can be substituted for the chicken thighs.
We recommend using spaghetti noodles for the Instant Pot version since making this recipe with lo mein noodles or angel hair pasta has not been tested.
The noodles were al dente and there liquid in the bottom of the pot, by the time the dish was served, all liquid was absorbed and the noodles were perfect!
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Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 371kcalCarbohydrates: 38gProtein: 20gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 76mgSodium: 831mgPotassium: 470mgFiber: 3gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 2115IUVitamin C: 25mgCalcium: 43mgIron: 2mg
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