Combination Seafood Chow Mein takes the hassle out of ordering for take-out or delivery when you can simply make your favorite Chinese noodles at home.
Combination Seafood Chow Mein
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
Combination Seafood Chow Mein is my recipe of the day with the blogging group Fish Friday Foodies.
We get together once a month to post on various seafood topics. It was my turn to host so I chose the topic of copycat seafood restaurant recipes. This was done a number of months in advance and it is fortunate to be sharing this type of recipe, at least I think, since we need to shelter in and get our restaurant favorites at home.
You may have had the dried-fried chow mein noodles from a can but that’s not what we are doing here.
This is done in the pan-fried noodles style, which takes fresh or dried noodles, boil and drain them, then pile as a pancake in a skillet and fry until it crisps up on the bottom.
If you have never tried this way before, I promise you, you will like this so much better. It’s one of Bill’s fav Asian recipes.
Fish Friday Foodies
Copycat Restaurant Recipes
Hosted by Sue Lau
- Rubio’s Fish Tacos from Making Miracles
- Wahoo’s Grilled Fish Tacos with Citrus Slaw {copycat} from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Chinese Take-Out Combination Seafood Chow Mein from Palatable Pastime (You are Here!)
- Shrimp Damian from Food Lust People Love
- Crispy Cheese Prawn Pancakes from Sneha’s Recipe
- Mahi Mahi Matecumbe from A Day in the Life on the Farm
Combination Seafood Chow Mein
I used a mix of shrimp and scallops which I had the fishmonger pack up for me. As well, there was a small package of mixed seafood in the freezer case which I thawed and added in. Those will contain various seafood such as shrimp, mussels, sometimes oysters and squid or scallops.
The sauce is easily made ahead if you want to do that to save some time during the dinner hour. You can mix it up, keep in a small canning jar for about a week. Just stir it up before using, the same as if you had a bottle of ready made sauce from the market on hand.
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Combination Seafood Chow Mein
Combination Seafood Chow Mein
Ingredients
Stir-Fry
- 8 ounces sea scallops
- 8 ounces large shrimp
- 8 ounces mixed seafood
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil
- 24 ounces fresh chow mein noodles
- 12 ounces napa cabbage sliced
- 4 ounces snow peas
- 1 cup sliced celery
- 1 cup sliced carrots
- 6 scallions chopped
Sauce:
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon grated ginger
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup oyster sauce
- 1 cup vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon rice wine
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon ketchup
- 4 teaspoons corn starch
Instructions
- Whisk together sauce and set aside in a bowl.
- Prep seafood and veggies.
- Saute the veggies in oil, then add the seafood the last minute or so since it does not take long.
- Stir in the sauce and let it thicken up.
- Cook noodles according to package directions and drain.
- Heat a large nonstick skillet and add 1 or 2 tablespoons of oil depending on the pancake size (how many noodles you fry at once) and add noodles in portions to the pan.
- Let the noodles brown on the underside and turn with a large spatula until they crisp up.
- Remove noodles to a serving plate or platter and top with the chow mein and sauce.
Notes
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