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The Best Vegan Chow Mein
35 min
Main
Servings
Total
35 minPrep
20 minCook
15 minContains
soy
sesame
gluten
Free from
peanut
tree nut
Ingredients
Sauce
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3 Tbsp (45 mL)dark soy sauce, plus more to taste
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2 Tbsp (30 mL)water
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2 Tbsp (30 mL)toasted sesame oil
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½vegetable bouillon cube, crumbled
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2 tsp (5 g)cornstarch
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1 tsp (5 mL)rice vinegar
Chow Mein Base
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½ Tbsp (7 mL)vegetable oil
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1 cup (168 g)mock "chicken" pieces, torn into shreds
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1 Tbsp (15 mL)vegetable oil
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1medium onion, thinly sliced
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2cloves garlic, minced
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5.3 oz (150 g)vegan chow mein noodles
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¼napa cabbage, thinly sliced
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2carrots, julienned
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1head of bok choy, thinly sliced, stems and leaves separated
Optional garnishes
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toasted sesame seeds
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sliced green onion
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crispy chili oil
Directions
- Combine sauce ingredients in a jar or small bowl.
- Add the oil to sauté pan on high heat. Cook the mock chicken pieces until golden. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
- Add the some more oil to the now-empty pan. Cook the onion and garlic in the pan until the garlic becomes golden.
- Then add the cabbage, carrots, and white stems of the bok choy. Cook for 3 - 4 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook the noodles according to the package directions. Then drain and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process.
- Add the mock chicken back to the pan along with the bok choy leaves. Cook until warmed through.
- Stir through the cooked noodles, then pour over the sauce and toss to combine. Cook for 3 minutes to allow the cornstarch to thicken.
- Serve with green onions and sesame seeds. Enjoy!
Storage
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Let us know what you think
Plate method
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Grains & Starches 30%
• vegan chow mein noodles
Proteins 11%
• mock "chicken" pieces
Fruits & Veggies 59%
• medium onion
• clove garlic
• napa cabbage
• carrot
• head of bok choy
Calcium
No significant sources of calciumFat
• toasted sesame oil
• vegetable oil
• vegetable oil
Nutrition info
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Discussion & Rating
Delicious and simple
Quick and easy and versatile. Love the sauce, wow!
I used mushrooms instead of mock chicken and it turned out great
Perfect! Would 100% recommend!
Loved this. So did my non vegan teens. Hoovered it up :)
It was delicious and the amount of spice was just perfect :) very easy to make as well!
Turned out so good! Love all the fresh veggies in it. It was super easy to make too.
Amazingly delicious! Thank you for this recipe 🙏🏼 my kids love it! Very easy to make 😊
Amazing! Delicious!
This meal looks and tastes so appetizing. Your recipes make me want to eat healthy! Thank you!
Can the sauce be made in advance and refrigerated?
So good! Perfect for workdays! 💚
It's easily prepared and perfect if you're not having a lot of time but still want to enjoy a delicious meal. I'm definitely going to make it again.
Really looking forward to trying this! Any alternatives to the ½ vegetable bouillon cube?
I made this today and it was delicious, definitely one I'll be doing again and again! I also added ginger and cayenne pepper for a bit of heat.
The recipe is absolutely delicious. And it’s so easy to follow the instructions. Although I’d put a small note at step 0 or 1 to start boiling the water 😅 I completely forgot
I adore it! Very tasty, not so hard to make. This app made my life so much easier :D
I love your recipes. Unfortunately, I have a soy allergy and I’m always looking for alternatives for soy sauce. Any suggestions on making alternatives like coconut aminos taste more like soy in your recipes?
My whole family loved this recipe, I’ll definitely be making it again!
Excellent! I used different veg and Shandong ramen noodles. I also used tofu dredged in cornstarch and Chinese 5-spice. There wasn't enough sauce for hubby and I, so I doubled that part of the recipe.
Making this tonight!
OMG it was a flavor explosion in my mouth !!!!
Just made this for dinner - wow, so good! My husband and I loved it. Easy to prepare and quick to cook and so tasty. Instead of the fake 'chicken' I used roasted portabella mushrooms.
Definitely part of our ongoing menus. Thanks
So tasty! I make ramen with rice noodles often and this was like a non-soup version. Definitely will make a again!
My boyfriend said this was the best thing I ever cooked and he was right, this is delicious
This was really good. I made it for my non-vegan roommates and they loved it. It was also really easy with minimal prep after a 10hr work day.
Easy and delicious!
I love noodles and these are always a good for a go to!! I put tofu and the veggies that I had at home, that's why I like them, very versatile 🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜
This was so easy and so good! My kids loved it. Definitely making this again.
It was sooo delicious! My husband is now carrying a huge food baby.
Love it!! I made a soy-free, non-vegan version. Delicious! 😋
Tested it and loved it! 😋😋
I didn’t have the right noodles for this so I just used vermicelli rice noodles instead and it was still delicious! Adding to our household recipes for sure 😋
Good
What is the difference between dark and light soy sauce? Currently making this recipe. :)
So yummy and warming. Super easy to cook!
I'm trying this tomorrow. Is there a side dish like a salad or maybe a soup you recommend to serve the noodles with.
Thanks!
Had everything at home, put it together and it was delicious! You can also deepfreeze the portions.
This is so delicious and such a nice change from my usual recipe roster, especially because it sneaks cabbage into my diet (which I normally struggle to enjoy)! I love the sauce in particular, it really brings the dish together and I'll be using it with other veggie combos. A lot of chopping but very easy to make and it comes together in around an hour! Really recommend it!
A favourite with our family as well!!
Thanks, Sadia
from a fellow Canadian🇨🇦
Soo goood😍 We already made it twice in one week. Huge recommendation
Definitely on the regular rotation now! Super delicious and easy. Very important to have all the ingredients ready to go when it's time to cook, haha 😅
Love this recipe so much, we've added this to our rotation! I recommend using half dark soy sauce and half light, for a bit of extra flavour :) Thank you PUL team!
Very good! Don’t skip the cabbage if possible:) It added so much flavor.
Good, I’d probably prefer slightly lower soy sauce
Can’t wait to try this!!
I didnt have bok choi or the cabbage but i used edamame instead! For some reason I thought the finished product was lacking a bit of flavor? Or it didnt really taste as rich as I thought it was gonna taste. Maybe because the noodles sucked up all the sauce? But i added more soy sauce, rice vinagre, agave syrup and siracha and that did the trick! Overall great recipe! ❤️
No lie, this became an instant favorite. The ingredients were so simple and everything came together perfectly; 10/10 would make again
SO good!! Will be making this on repeat 🔁
The whole family liked it 👌🏼
Just made this and it was amazing! Thanks Sadia ☺️
I was really excited to try this recipe after watching the YouTube video, and it sounded very promising that the whole PUL team was obsessed with this dish. Unfortunately, I found that the dish lacks a bit of flavor and that extra oomph that I was hoping for. I won't make it again. It is important to note that I'm Vietnamese and used to bolder flavors, so this version does not do it for me.
So GOOD!!! I’ve tried a few chow main recipes in the past and this is definitely the winner!
Absolutely to die for. Even my husband was impressed
Absolutely loved it! We added shiitake mushroom and we did miss a little bit of crunch so added some salted peanuts. Will definitely make again.
This recipe is just perfection! Thank you for sharing 😉
When I made this I mistakenly added a lot less cabbage but it was still delicious despite my mistake 😋
My husband came in while I was watching this video, and said “Yum, that looks good. Are you gonna make it?” We immediately went to the grocery store and got bok choy and napa cabbage, which I’ve never cooked with before. I already had all the other ingredients! We both loved the delicious flavor, textures, and healthful goodness of this dish. I loved how simple, quick and easy it was. I even enjoy the zen of veggie prep. It’s a good thing this keeps in the frig for a few days, cuz the recipe for 3 servings made enough for 6. (We always save room for dessert.)
A little too sweet, so I’ll make again with less agave
Yummy noodles, the sauce is incredible!
SO delicious, family devoured + said it was like a restaurant meal 💗 I didn’t have a bulllion cube and omitted it + don’t think we missed it- this app is THE BEST!!!
I made this last night for me and my husband. The only change I made was to make 1.5 times the sauce. I had a LOT of vegetables and the original amount seemed just a bit scant to me. I also added some fresh mung bean sprouts to the scallion and toasted sesame seeds as a garnish. By using store-bought shredded carrots, this came together in a little over 30 minutes. I also found that my "chiken" strips didn't shred that well, so just cubed them and it worked perfectly. We actually liked that the cubes had a bit of bite that you might not get with shredding. All in all, this dish had so much flavor, great textures and was a real comfort food. So much better, fresher, lighter than restaurant Chinese food. I had leftovers for lunch and it was wonderful! I will gladly make this again.
Yum! Will definitely make again. I'd love to see some other sauce flavor rotations that I can do with this recipe.
Yum! Will definitely make again. I'd love to see some other sauce flavor rotations that I can do with this recipe.
I was so shocked at how tasty this dish was! I have made asian-inspired dishes in the past and it never tastes as good as when I get it take-away, but this one tastes BETTER than take-away. Will definitely be making this one again (and again!).
Fantastic recipe when I’m craving Panda Express, I will add more veggies next time like mini corn and water chestnuts. I feel you could add any veg to this and it will be amazing
Amazing!!!! We loved this dish. So much flavor. Can’t wait to have it again-SOON!
These noodles were a real hit! I especially loved the combination of bok choy and cabbage together with the noodles and sauce. I used tofu which worked really well too.
This week was my second time making it and it just yummy! The sauce is so tasty *chef kiss*. I doubled the sauce to have more of it for the extra noodles I made. Thank you PUL team!
I was searching for an easy and quick recipe for a delicious meal, and when I came across this one claiming to be effortless, I thought I had hit the jackpot.
But alas, this recipe turned out to be more of a dream than a reality. Not because it's easy and fast (35 minutes total prep time? Really?), even tough I have at least 10 years of cooking experience under my belt. I may not be the most skilled chef, but for goodness' sake, can we at least get an accurate estimate of the preparation time, from grabbing the vegetables in the fridge to properly chopping and organizing everything?
The option to scale up the recipe is a nice touch, but did anyone bother to check if it actually works after altering the quantity of servings? It's not just about creating a widget to multiply the zeroDotSomething variable (what on earth is a 0.67 napa cabbage anyway? The world uses grams/kilograms or at least the cumbersome imperial system), if in reality, you need an industrial-sized kitchen to combine everything.
This isn't the first impractical recipe I've tried, but because my wife enjoys your site, I thought, "Let's give it a try." Nevermore.
This recipe was bomb!!!! It is easy and delicious. Thank you so much!
Tried this tonight and it was amazing!!! I used buckwheat soba noodles instead of chow mein and the husband loved it!
Super yummy! My husband and I both enjoyed it !
I need a sharper knife with all the chopping and a larger pan for my family of 5, but we’ll worth the effort!
It was a really delicious recipe. Probably took me an hour from getting ingredients out to completing cooking. I thought there may be too strong a flavour from the sesame oil but it was absolutely fine . This will be a regular recipe for us. I used savoy cabbage in place of the Chinese cabbage. Thank you for the recipe.
Heerlijk!!!! Had het met peasmaker gemaakt maar die vond ik te zacht. Volgende keer met de “kip stukjes”. Maar voor herhaling vatbaar.
Tried this recipe for dinner last night and it was amazing! I loved the sauce was subtle but had a lot of flavor. I substituted with tofu and the veggies I had on hand. My husband had it for lunch the next day and said it was even tastier with the flavors absorbed
Hi! I saw this recipe last week and immediately tried it, it was fantastic! So tasty and good and the flavors go together very well! Making it the second time now haha!
Delicious ! <3
great receipie
Delicious! This recipe is saved.
SO GOOD! Was able to find gluten free ramen noodles and did tofu. My husband is raving about the onion chopping technique you shared on the video! I’ve never seen him so giddy about chopping an onion!
Super Delicious! A Keeper.
Thank you for sharing this fantastic noodle dish! I’m not vegan but my husband and I love trying vegan dishes. I did not add the mock chicken so it was all vegetables and that sauce is fantastic! I couldn’t find chow neon noodles so I had to use what I found which were Cantonese egg noodles and they were great. Thanks again!
Hello there: just stumbled on this post and I’m wondering what kind of noodles did you use? Any brand recommendations?
Loved this! And my teenagers did too! ♥️🤩
Delicious and easy to make!
Hi Team PUL,
I always get confused when soy sauce is in the recipe. As you know Sadia, in The Netherlands we have sweet and salty soy sauce. I can never tell which one to use, because they both give a different taste. Which one is used here, please? Maybe you can give me the name of the brand so I can get that one. Otherwise I have ketjap mani, ketjap asin, and Japanese soy sauce. Not only do all three of them taste differently, but the consistency of each varies as well.
This was delicious! 🥰 The sauce is a game changer 😍 sooo yummy!
Wow! Yummy 😋
This was really quick and easy for a week night. I made a bunch of tweaks (different noods, different veg) to suit what I had in the house already, but left the sauce the same and it was very tasty!
Perfect, really good
This was delicious. I added a little peanut butter with the other sauce ingredients...it came out amazing.
This is such a simple but so delicious recipe 🤤 couldn't stop eating!
beautiful ! I'll try it right away ! thank you
Great flavors - easy to make
Excellent 🙌
Excited to try this, but wondering if the PUL team has any recommendations for the mock chicken? I'm new to the mock-meat game and am worried I'll get one that's not so yum. Thanks!
Just made this for lunch and it was such an amazing fast recipe that really impressed everyone. Added some ginger because I had some and it worked with the flavors. Next time I might try finishing with some fresh lime juice just for some extra zing (though it wouldn't be traditionally chow- mein-y).
About to go to the grocery store and just curious what kind of noodles - rice, ramen, Udon? Not sure if type of noodle matters, but I want to get it right because this looks yummy!
Saw the video on your Youtube channel today and my immediate thought was mmm I have to try this! Gathered all the ingredients and with your instructions it was so easy to create. I did use chicken instead of the vegan option, which took longer to cook but turned out great. We all loved this recipe, thank you so much!!! <3
Sincerely,
Maryam Khan.
Saw the recipe last evening and knew I wanted to waste no time and try it today. And it was absolutly amazing. Even my Sister who is a great cook said it tasted like in the restaurant.
PUL recipes have truely never failed me. Cant belive I get all these wonderful vegan recipes for free! Thank you and a warm hug to the whole team <3
Made for dinner tonight, super delicious! Added zucchini as I couldn’t find bok choy at my local grocery store.
Thank you for sharing this recipe! We Loved it. I had to do some tweaks bc I didn’t have all the ingredients, but still was so delish.
Thank you for sharing this simple and delicious recipe! Didn't have a bok choy at hand, so replaced it with a few celery sticks (for stems) and some spinach (for leaves) - and it turned out great! Next time will stick 100% to the recipe just to see if I didn't miss out on any interesting nuances to the flavour by messing a bit with the indregients. ;)
Simple, delicious and the whole family loved it! Doubled the recipe (love the scaling feature) and it was perfect!
This was absolutely delicious and very flavourful! I didn't have to add any additional salt or other seasoning. And took me 30 minutes, start to finish :-)
Instead of bok choy and napa cabbage I used swiss chard - we have a lot of it growing in our garden right now so that was what I had to use, plus carrots and bell pepper. I think this recipe will be good with a variety of vegetables and proteins.
Bomb recipe!
I didn't have sriracha, so I subbed gochujang. No napa cabbage or bok choy, so I used about 2/3 of a head of green cabbage. No bouillon cube so I left that out. I 1.5x'ed the sauce and added more carrot, plus used edamame instead of fake chicken. It was easy and tasted good. Next time I'll add more gochujang and chili crisp for heat.
Hmm- this was OK. I felt like it lacked flavor unfortunately so I doubled the sauce ingredients and added some gochujang. Not sure I’d make this again but it was a quick dinner to throw together and will last me all week for leftovers.
Omg, this is dangerously good! Will definitely be making it again. If I refrigerate the leftovers, any tips on reheating them?
Just happened to have everything needed to make this recipe and YES!! It was incredible I will definitely be making this again!