Noodle with Hot Chili Oil

Instead of using already-made hot chili oil in the noodle, this recipe makes the chili oil on the spot in the noodle. The secrete is chili powder and hot oil with right temperature. The smell of chili and sizzling sound make you drooling already 🙂

You'll need:

• 100 g noodles
• ⅓ cup of cooking oil
• 2 tbsp chili powder
• 1 tbsp minced garlic, if you like garlic, you can add 2 tbsp
• 2 tbsp green onion, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp minced ginger
• 3 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tbsp Chinese dark vinegar

Instructions:

Sauce: take a bowl, mix light soy sauce and vinegar

Bring a pot of water to a boil, cook noodles. Drain well, then transfer to a bowl

Pour 1 tbsp of sauce into the noodle bowl, add minced garlic and ginger and chopped green onion, chili powder on top of noodles. Adjust to taste.

Heat up ⅓ cup of cooking oil over medium heat. When the oil is 70% or 80% hot, turn off the heat and pour the hot oil into noodle bowl, mix well.

Serve and enjoy!

Cooking Tips:

• Caution: handle hot oil with caution
• If the cooking oil is not hot enough, chili powder won’t taste well. If the oil is too hot, it will burn the chili powder.

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Noodle with Hot Chili Oil

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time10 minutes mins

Total Time20 minutes mins

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Chinese

Servings: 2 people

Ingredients

• 100 g noodles
• 1/3 cup of cooking oil
• 2 tbsp chili powder
• 1 tbsp minced garlic, if you like garlic, you can add 2 tbsp
• 2 tbsp green onion, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp minced ginger
• 3 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tbsp Chinese dark vinegar

Instructions

Sauce:

• Take a bowl, mix light soy sauce and vinegar.

Instruction:

• Bring a pot of water to a boil, cook noodles. Drain well, then transfer to a bowl
• Pour 1 tbsp of sauce into the noodle bowl, add minced garlic and ginger and chopped green onion, chili powder on top of noodles. Adjust to taste.
• Heat up ⅓ cup of cooking oil over medium heat. When the oil is 70% or 80% hot, turn off the heat and pour the hot oil into noodle bowl, mix well.
• Serve and enjoy!

Notes

Cooking Tips:

• Caution: handle hot oil with caution
• If the cooking oil is not hot enough, chili powder won’t taste well. If the oil is too hot, it will burn the chili powder.