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This easy Pork Lo Mein recipe is perfect for busy weeknights! It’s loaded with tender pork, crispy veggies, and lots of noodles in a flavorful Asian inspired sauce.
No need for delivery when our pork lo mein recipe is this easy!
Pork Lo Mein Because Pasta Is Always The Answer.
The kids and I have been on a major Asian food kick lately. Our Asian cucumber salad, a bag of frozen potstickers, and this pork lo mein is a common weeknight meal in my house.
This pork lo mein is a quick and easy weeknight recipe that’s ready in less than 30 minutes, super easy to customize, and packed with flavor from the simple, homemade sauce we stir fry everything in.
I love that you can easily swap out the veggies for whatever is in the fridge. Makes this a good ‘clean out the fridge’ kind of recipe and you’ll often find us throwing in the nearly forgotten broccoli, cauliflower, snap peas, and kale.
Not into lo mein? Our bacon fried rice is a major favorite, too.
♥ What We Love About This Recipe:
- Flavor: We pack in big flavor with our simple stir-fry sauce. It starts with hoisin, two types of soy sauce, chili paste, honey, and garlic. Super tasty combo of Asian flavors. Not too sweet or too spicy!
- Versatile: This one works great with whatever veggies you have on hand. We often make it with broccoli, cauliflower, and snap peas.
- Quick: Honestly, this is ready in less time than it takes for delivery! 25 minutes from start to finish!
Ingredient Notes:
Pork Loin Chops – We’re starting with boneless pork loin chops that have been diced into bite-sized pieces! Any kind of boneless pork chops will work here.
Noodles – We find dried lo mein noodles in the ethnic foods aisle at the local grocery store, but spaghetti or fettuccini will also work fine.
Sauce – We’re making our own stir fry sauce with a mixture of hoisin sauce, traditional and dark soy sauce, chili paste, and honey. Swap the chili paste for sriracha or a bit of chili crisp.
Peppers & Onion – We’re tossing in some veggies including chopped bell peppers and sweet onion. You can use any color bell pepper that you like if you have a preference.
Baby Spinach – I know spinach might sound a little weird for lo mein, but I like it here, because it practically disappears as you cook it, which means the kids don’t mind eating it. 😉 Extra veggies for all!
Garlic & Ginger – Pretty much required ingredients to get the same classic flavors of a take-out restaurant lo mein! Ginger is a pretty common ingredient in Asian cooking and it adds great flavor to the dish.
Green Onion – For garnishing before serving.
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
How to Make Pork Lo Mein:
Dice up the pork chops into bite-sized pieces and brown them in a large skillet or wok with the hoisin sauce.
While the pork is cooking, bring a pot of water to a boil and cook the lo mein according to the package directions.
Remove the pork from the wok and add in the veggies. Cook these for about 5-6 minutes until they’re tender crisp and then stir in the soy sauce, chili paste, honey.
Add the cooked pasta and the pork to the wok and cook everything for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly to make sure it’s all coated in the sauce.
Sprinkle on some chopped green onion and then serve the pork lo mein immediately while it’s good and hot! See below for some serving suggestions.
Serving Suggestions:
This homemade pork lo mein recipe is best served with some of our Asian inspired side dishes!
Our Asian cucumber salad, some pork egg rolls, and this lo mein is a favorite.
For some greens, try these air fryer Asian brussels sprouts or spicy Szechuan green beans.
Storage Instructions:
You can keep any leftovers stored in an airtight container in your refrigerator for about 3 to 4 days.
This reheats just fine in the microwave or on the stove top. Add a splash or two of soy sauce if the lo mein is dry upon reheating.
FAQ’s:
You can make a lo mein sauce out of a variety of ingredients! For this recipe we’re using hoisin sauce, light soy sauce, and dark soy sauce with some honey and chili paste. That’s a whole lot of flavor!
Yes, you can! It’s commonly used as a replacement for more authentic lo mein noodles. Linguine is another good substitute for lo mein noodles, but pretty much any kind of noodle can be used here.
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Pork Lo Mein
Ingredients
- 1 pound boneless pork loin chops
- 14 ounces dry lo mein or spaghetti noodles
- 2 tablespoons olive oil divided
- 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 bell peppers any color
- 1 sweet onion
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- 6 ounces baby spinach
- 3 tablespoons light soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 teaspoons chili paste more or less to taste
- 1/4 cup chopped green onion
Instructions
- Dice the pork chops into bite-sized pieces. Slice the peppers and onions into thin strips.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil to cook the lo mein.
- While the water is coming to a boil, add one tablespoon of olive oil to a wok or large deep skillet and heat over high heat.
- Add the pork to the skillet with the hoisin and sprinkle on the salt. Cook over high heat, stirring often, until browned and cooked through, about 6 minutes.
- Remove pork from the wok and set aside. Drain any liquid in the pan.
- Add the lo mein noodles to the boiling water and cook according to package instructions.
- Add the remaining tablespoon of oil to the wok and heat over high heat.
- Add the peppers and onion and cook, stirring often, 3 minutes. Stir in the garlic, ginger, and spinach. Continue cooking and stirring for 3 minutes, or until the spinach has wilted.
- Add the light and dark soy sauce, honey, and chili paste to the wok and stir well.
- Drain the cooked lo mein and add to the wok along with the pork. Stir well and continue cooking for 1 or 2 minutes, stirring constantly, until well combined.
- Sprinkle with green onion and serve immediately.
Erin says
Do you think this would work with a pre-marinated lemon garlic pork tenderloin? I am assuming I will probably roast or grill it as a dinner but I’d love to re-purpose the leftovers into another dish and lo mein was defiantly one of my thoughts. I’d just skip the cooking part of the recipe and maybe just give it a quick sauteed to add the flavor and warm it.
Karly says
I think it would work fine!
Maggie Martin says
Nice hint on the Dark soy sauce from the bacon fried rice recipe, it’s good. This recipe was very good and I added in some mushrooms and left
out some of the bell pepper.
You rock!
Maggie
Karly says
Glad you enjoyed, Maggie! Thanks! 🙂
Rosemary says
This looks amazing Karly, we love Chinese food, my daughter will be thrilled, unfortunately we can’t order in where we are! I can’t wait to try this.
Karly says
Hope you guys enjoy!
Marsha | Marsha's Baking Addiction says
I hear you. We got a Christmas card come through the door from our local takeout we used to order from regularly once LOL
This lo mein looks absolutely mouthwatering!
jude says
Looks good……………..at what point do you suggest putting the cooked pork back in?
Karly says
Whoops! You add it in with the noodles. 🙂