Skip to main content

Home-Style Dandan Noodles

Welcome back! 
Today, we have a delicious noodle recipe: Dandan Noodles! There are many variations on this dish, but its origin comes from the Sichuan Province in China. It's originally made with a spicy meat sauce and pickled vegetables, and with no soup. However, variations on the recipe can include soup, and many versions, including this one, include peanut butter, which we find to be a unique ingredient that works surprisingly well. Overall, it's very simple because it was originally sold by street vendors carrying the noodles with a pole, but it's still very enjoyable!

Home-Style Dandan Noodles

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:

  • About 8-12 ounces noodles, depending on how much you want
  • 1/2 pound ground pork
  • 2-3 tablespoons salted mustard green, chopped (optional)
  • 3 tablespoons green onion
  • 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon ginger, minced
  • 1 tablespoon cooking rice wine
  • 4 tablespoons sesame sauce
  • 4 tablespoons peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup + 1 cup water
  • 1 tablespoon crisp chili oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon Sichuan pepper powder
For garnish (you don't necessarily need all of them):
  • Sesame seeds
  • Chopped peanuts
  • Green onions
    The salted mustard greens


Directions:

  1. In a separate bowl, mix together the sesame sauce, peanut butter, and 1/2 cup of water.
  2. Heat some oil in a wok.
  3. Add in the ground pork until it turns white-ish/opaque.
  4. Add in the rice wine and stir.
  5. Add the green onion, garlic, ginger, and salted mustard greens, and mix.
  6. Add in the mixture of sesame sauce, peanut butter, and water, and mix.
  7. Add another cup of water and cook until broil.
  8. Add in the chili oil and pepper powder and stir.
  9. Cook the noodles.
  10. Blanch some veggies like bok choy and bean sprouts.
  11. Assemble by topping the noodles with the meat sauce and veggies, and garnish with the sesame seeds, chopped peanuts, and/or green onions.
This is a great, well-rounded dish to have all year round. It's simple to make but there's still a lot of nuance with the ingredients that you can experiment around with in order to find the recipe that you prefer; in fact, many versions opt to just use sesame paste and not peanut butter. However, this is our "home-style" that we developed after seeing a bunch of different recipes. We ended up with this really smooth but still thick sauce that balances the peanut butter with the rest of the meat sauce, and it's now a dish that the whole family really enjoys.

-Chefpo 
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Welcome back!  Today, we have a recipe for the most iconic cookie ever: Chocolate Chip Cookies! Loaded with smooth chocolate, these cookies are an absolute treat that everyone is sure to love. Plus, this recipe's pretty easy to whip up quickly, so it's super convenient when you need to prepare something for a party or if you just want some indulgent snacks.  Chocolate Chip Cookies Makes 18 cookies Ingredients: 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened 100 grams white sugar 75 grams brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 large egg 1 1/2 cups (190 grams) all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon baking powder (optional) 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 6 ounces chocolate chips or chunks Directions: In a mixing bowl, cream the butter with the white and brown sugar. Add in the vanilla extract and egg and mix. Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and sea salt into the wet mixture. Mix this together, but don't overmix! Add the chocolate chips or chunks and mix. Let the cooki...
Post a Comment
Read more

Brownie Cheesecake

Welcome back to Chez Chefpo!  Today, we have a delicious treat that combines two wonderful desserts into one! If you like brownies and cheesecake, you're going to like this too, as the two flavors really balance and complement each other. It also goes well with some fresh fruit and is a good final course of a meal. (In fact, you got a sneak peek at it in our Pasta Salad recipe!) Brownie Cheesecake Makes a 9" round pan Ingredients: Brownie: 6 ounces dark chocolate 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter 2 tablespoons brown sugar 6 tablespoons sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 75 grams cake flour 1 tablespoon cocoa powder 1 teaspoon espresso powder 1/2 teaspoon salt Chocolate chips (optional) Cheesecake: 8 ounces ricotta cheese 8 ounces cream cheese 4 ounces plain greek yogurt 2 eggs 50 grams sugar 1/4 cups dried fruit (cranberries, raisins, blueberries) soaked in rum/brandy/Grand Marnier Lemon zest (optional) In place of the ricotta cheese, you could use another 8 ounces of c...
Post a Comment
Read more

Habanero Salsa

Welcome back!  Today, we have a fiery Habanero Salsa! Salsa is deceptively easy to make - just chop up a few ingredients and put it through a food processor - and if you do it yourself, you're able to get it to exactly the right consistency and flavor that you want. In this case, we were able to concoct a devilishly spicy salsa with a fresh habanero. Plus, this is so much fresher than the store-bought variety of salsa! Habanero Salsa Ingredients: 3 medium tomatoes (or Roma tomatoes), deseeded 1/4 small red onion 1 jalapeno 1 habanero Cilantro 1 tablespoon lime juice Pinch of salt Directions: Chop the tomatoes, onion, jalapeno, and habanero into rough chunks - not diced. Cut the cilantro so that there aren't any long stems. Add the chopped ingredients into a food processor along with the lime juice and salt. Pulse until the desired consistency is reached. This salsa is great by itself but it also is an amazing way to add an extra kick to guacamole or some Brisket Queso, and of ...
Post a Comment
Read more