Spicy Cold Noodles
Cold noodle with my favourite chili sauce
Servings 2 people
Ingredients
- 200 g spaghetti
- 2 teaspoon light soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
- ½ teaspoon Chinese black vinegar
- 2 tablespoon green onions/scallions, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon minced ginger
- 1 clove of garlic, minced
- 1½ tablespoon chili sauce, or to taste
- ½ teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 teaspoon roasted white sesame seeds optional
- 3 tablespoon cooking oil
- ⅓ cup roasted peanuts
- A handful of soy sprouts
- A small handful of chopped cilantro
Instructions
Prepare fried peanuts
- Wok fried peanuts: this step is tricky, it is easy to over-cook the peanuts. Tip: use low heat & keep stirring continuously. Here is a good how-to.
- Crush the fried peanuts. If you make fried peanuts yourself, let them cool down completely before crushing. Use a Ziploc bag and a rolling pin to crush peanuts to small chunks.
Toast the sesame seeds on the stove
- Toasted seeds enriches the nutty flavor brought by fried peanuts. You can buy already toasted sesame seeds from your local stores or follow this detailed step-by-step instructions to get perfect crunchy toasted sesame seeds.
Sauce base
- Take a bowl, mix together the light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, Chinese black vinegar, chopped scallion, minced ginger, minced garlic, Lao Gan Ma chili crisp, sesame oil and roasted sesame seeds.
- Heat the fry pan or wok over low to medium heat, add 3 tablespoon of cooking oil, when the oil gets hot, turn off the heat. Pour the hot oil to the sauce base. Be careful of handling the hot oil.
Cook the spaghetti
- Bring a pot of water to a boil, add a pinch of salt and a drop of oil, cook the spaghetti to al dente (follow package directions). When the spaghetti is one or two minutes away from done, add in the soy bean sprouts to blanch. Cook for the remaining time, then drain well the spaghetti and soy sprouts. Tip: depending on the leafy vegetable you choose, you might need to adjust the timing to add in the vegetable to blanch.
Assemble the spaghetti
- Take a big bowl, add cooked spaghetti and soy bean sprouts, add crushed peanuts, top with chopped cilantro, add generously a few spoons of the sauce base to the noodles, stir to combine. Mix well.
- Serve and Enjoy!
Notes
- Use roasted sesame seeds and peanuts instead of raw ones.
- If roast sesame seeds and peanuts yourself, let them cool down completely before using.
- You can substitute peanuts with pine nuts, walnuts, cashew nuts, or even pumpkin or sunflower seeds.