Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Squash Chicken Chow Mein

Spaghetti Squash Chicken Chow Mein, is a Lower Calorie Weight Watchers alternative to using Chow Mein Noodles. Quickly and easily made in an Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker.

Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Squash Chicken Chow Mein

I’m always trying to lose weight and what better way, then with delicious food?

Low calorie, but delicious recipes which do not taste like I’m on a diet is my kind of recipe.

Spaghetti Squash is so wonderful to use in place of Spaghetti Noodles.

My Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Squash and Meat Sauce is a recipe, which I have been making for over 20 years.

It is so delicious and when I used to do make-up in Hollywood, the Craft Services people would make sure to have a nice batch for me and another make-up artist.

A few years ago, I converted it to my Instant Pot and Pressure Cooker.

Head over to my Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Squash recipe and prepare the Squash before starting this recipe.

 

What is Chow Mein?

Chow Mein is stir-fried noodles.

Depending on where you are in the Word, Chow Mein may mean something different.

In Florida, where I grew up, we called this dish “Lo Mein.”

Here in California, the stir fried noodles are called “Chow Mein.”

Chow Mein is popular in many Countries.

The similarities are that the dish contains meat, vegetables and generally, a brown sauce.

It is totally a customizable dish and can be prepared different each time, if new flavors are desired.

 

What Ingredients are in Chicken Chow Mein?

• Chicken
• Onions
• Celery
• Garlic
• Cabbage
• Bean Sprouts

This recipe is flexible and if you like other vegetables, such as broccoli, go a head and add it in after pressure has been released.

 

The Potato Starch will keep the Chicken from drying out.

You just want to brown the sides a little, just enough, so the Starch adheres to the Chicken.

This is one of my favorite tips and tricks, so make sure to always have Potato Starch on hand.

Don’t you hate having to add a slurry at the end of a recipe?

So often, the Starch won’t cook enough and the Sauce will have a raw taste.

 

Shaoxing Wine takes the flavor up another level.

If you do not have Shaoxing (and why don’t you), I suggest using a good Dry Sherry, one that is for drinking.

They are almost interchangeable in results. Shaoxing Wine is usually much cheaper than Sherry.

How do you make Chow Mein Sauce?

Sauce Ingredients

• Soy Sauce
• Oyster Sauce
• Sweet/Sweet/Black Soy Sauce
• Fish Sauce
• Dark Soy Sauce
• Pure Sesame Oil

Grab a Mixing Cup  and Whisk the Sauce ingredients together.

It will get added in after all the ingredients and before the more delicate vegetables.

 

For more texture, add in half the Cabbage before pressure cooking.

And half of it afterwards, when you add the Spaghetti Squash.

The residual heat will cook the Cabbage and warm up the Spaghetti Sqaush.

Simmer if needed to thicken the Sauce or cook the Cabbage more.

 

Other Weight Watchers Recipes You May Enjoy!

Pressure Cooker Healthy Inside Out Egg Rolls

Pressure Cooker Picadillo Stuffed Delicata Squash

Low Carb Air Fryer Radish Hash Browns

Pressure Cooker Americana Wedding Soup

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Kitchen Equipment and Essentials

• Instant Pot DUO Plus 60 Pressure Cooker
• J.A. Henckels Classic 7-inch Hollow Edge Santoku Knife
• Amco Advanced Performance 18/10 Stainless Steel Measuring Spoons
• Simply Gourmet (Dry) Stainless Steel Measuring Cups
• Anchor Hocking Glass (Liquid) Measuring Cups
• Rösle Stainless Steel Flat Whisk– a MUST have, probably my most used utensil
• Cilio Olivewood Spatula
• Rachael Ray Stoneware EVOO Oil Dispensing Bottle
• 3 ounce Porcelain Dipping/Condiment Bowls
• My FANTASTIC Teak Cutting & Charcuterie Board & Compartments
• 3.5 Quart Stainless Steel Mixing Bowl
• Sweet/Black Soy Sauce (also called Sweet Soy Sauce)
• Red Boat Fish Sauce or  Three Crabs Brand Fish Sauce
• Bob Mills Potato Starch
• Chinese Five Spice
• Kadoya Pure Sesame Oil

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Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Squash Chicken Chow Mein

 

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