Soy jam noodles

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
12 Radishes
1 small Cucumber
4 Scallions
5 Stalks celery
½ pounds Bean sprouts
1 cup Chinese parsley
5 Eggs
1 pounds Noodles
½ pounds Lean pork
1 Or
2 slices Fresh ginger root
4 Scallions
1 cup Soy jam
1 cup Water
2 Or
3 tablespoons Oil

Directions

1. Slice radishes. Peel and shred cucumber; then soak briefly in ice water.

Shred scallions and celery. Blanch bean sprouts. Trim tough stems from Chinese parsley. Place each vegetable in a separate serving dish.

2. Prepare egg threads (see "How-to Section"). Place in another serving dish.

3. Parboil noodles as in "Parboiled Noodles #1/#2" and keep warm.

4. Mince or grind pork, together with ginger root and remaining scallions.

5. Mix soy jam and water in a bowl.

6. Heat oil. Add pork mixture and stir-fry until pork loses its pinkness (1 to 2 minutes).

7. Stir in diluted soy jam and cook, covered, 10 minutes over medium heat, stirring frequently.

8. Transfer noodles to individual bowls. Place the meat sauce mixture in a serving bowl at the center of the table, with the dishes of vegetables and egg threads nearby. (To eat: the diner spoons 1 or 2 tablespoons of the meat sauce over his noodles, then takes a little of each vegetable and the egg threads and mixes them all together.) NOTE: This is the family-style way of serving noodles. (Sometimes the noodles are soft-fried first.) Various dishes of diced cooked meat and seafood, diced hardboiled eggs and crushed walnuts or almonds can also be served with the noodles. When they are, a meatless sauce is generally used.

(See "Chicken Stock Sauce for Noodles".) VARIATIONS: 1. For the soy jam, substitute 8 tablespoons yellow bean paste and 4 tablespoons soy sauce, and mix with the water. Simmer 15 minutes in step 7; then stir in 1 teaspoon sugar.

2. For the soy jam, substitute 1 cup hoisin sauce. Add in step 7 and stir in to heat. Then gradually add the water and cook 10 minutes as above.

3. In step 6, before stir-frying pork, add to the hot oil 1 garlic clove, crushed, and/or a few drops of sesame oil.

4. For the individual vegetables, substitute the following, tossed together and blended: 2 cups celery, shredded and blanched; 1 cucumber, peeled and shredded; 1 tablespoon peanut oil; 1 tablespoon light soy sauce; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon sugar; ½ teaspoon sesame oil and a dash of pepper.

From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .

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