Sichuan Meat Sauce Noodles
Sichuan Style meat sauce noodles
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 2 hr
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 1000 g ground pork ( ,30% fat)
- 3 tbsp 60 grams sweet wheat paste/tian mian jiang
- 3 tbsp. doubanjiang /chili bean paste
- 3 cloves garlic ( ,finely minced)
- 1 tbsp. minced ginger
- 1/2 tbsp. Sichuan peppercorn powder
- 1 very small piece of Chinese cinnamon ( ,桂皮)
- 2 fructus amomi ( ,砂仁, optional)
- 1 star anise
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 tbsp. Chinese cooking wine/shaoxing wine
- 1 tbsp. rock sugar
- 3 cups stock or water
- 1 cup 400 grams peas
- 1 pork large bone
- 3 slices ginger
- 1 scallion
- 5 L water
- 2 tsp. salt
- 1 portion ( ,100 grams of ramen noodle)
- 1 cup stewed chickpea broth
- 1/2 tbsp. sesame paste
- 1/2 tbsp. light sauce soy sauce
- 1/2 tbsp. minced garlic
- 1/4 tsp sugar
- 1/4 tsp rice vinegar
- 3 tbsp. meat sauce
- 1/2 tbsp. Chinese chili oil
Instructions
- 1
Pre-soak the peas until soft at the night of the previous day.
- 2
Place in a large pot with enough water, add pork bones and the peas to stew for 1 hour until completely softened. If you need to stir the soup, be gentle and do not break the peas.
- 3
Make the sauce: Heat your pan firstly and then add 1 tablespoon of oil, place the ground pork in. Fry for 2-3 minutes until slightly golden brown, add cooking wine.
- 4
Move them to the outside round of the pot. Add doubanjiang, garlic and ginger in the middle and fry until aromatic. Add tianmianjiang. Stir to mix well.
- 5
Place in spices and sugar and continue frying for couple of minutes.
- 6
Add 3 cups of water or stock and simmer over slowest fire for 40 minutes to 1 hour until the sauce is well thickened naturally.
- 7
Assemble the noodles
- 8
In each serving bowl, add sesame paste, light soy sauce, chili oil, sugar, garlic, scallion and vinegar. Mix well.
- 9
Bring enough water to a boiling in a pot and cook the noodles. At the last minute, add some dark green vegetables.
- 10
Scoop the soup base for cooking the peas to the serving bowl. Transfer the noodles in. Top with meat sauce and stewed peas.
- 11
Garnish toasted peanuts and chopped scallion