Grandma Sue’s Chicken Chow Mein

 Chicken Cho Mein (Sue’s) 

• Chicken breast
• 1 can Water chestnuts
• 1 jar Pimentos 
• 1 can cream of chicken soup
• 1 bag Frozen peas
• 1 package Cho mein noodles 

1- Cook chicken, water chestnuts, pimentos, soup, and peas in pan until chicken is cooked

2- Top with Cho mein noodles 

This recipe is one from my Grandma Sue. I remember her making it when I was a kid, but I do not remember what it tastes like. This recipe could easily be made vegetarian by skipping the chicken and using cream of mushroom or cream of celery. Usually that is what I would do when cooking dinner, make a small separate pan for myself, but I didn’t for this one. 

Unfortunately, this recipe isn’t very detailed, but I made this for dinner at my parent’s house to celebrate my Nan’s birthday. My dad helped me cook this one, because I had never made it before, so let’s get started.

This is everything I bought for dinner, however we did not end up using the third can of soup. We were making dinner for seven people, I think there was enough of everything except the chow mein noodles. They’re delicious, can you blame them? If you are making this for more than 2-3 people, I do not think you need to add more pimentos unless you’re using 4 cans of soup. But, it’s easy to adjust as you wish. Add more water chestnuts, or skip the pimentos. Whatever you need.

I started by cutting the chicken breasts into cubes, and getting them cooking in vegetable oil. Dad was helping me here, and we seasoned the chicken with salt, pepper. 

While dad was cooking the chicken, I added two cans of soup into a pot and filled one can with water and added that as well. Then we added the water chestnuts and pimentos and let it heat up. You want this sauce to be on the thicker side, but not as thick as gravy. If you find it too thick, just add a little more water until it reaches a good consistency. 

Once the soup mixture was hot, we added the frozen peas and carrots, and added pepper. The only cream of chicken soup I could find had herbs, if it didn’t I would have added some paprika and parsley. But season this how you’d like!

When the chicken is done, the sauce is hot and vegetables are cooked, that’s it! My family serves the sauce over the chow mein noodles and chicken. A nice, quick dinner. This is pretty much my grandma’s version of Chicken À La King, but with chow mein noodles. Unfortunately, I do not know where this recipe came from, but she made it for years. It’s one of my mom and dad’s favorites.