It only takes 15 minutes and 8 ingredients for these extra delicious garlicky spicy noodles.
These noodles are saucy, spicy, a little bit sweet, and full of umami. They’re extra garlicky and vegan and healthy. You can even add extra protein and veggies to this to bulk it up and make it a whole meal. These noodles are super versatile and the best part is that they come together amazingly quickly.
<a href="https://amzn.to/3iOkpXQ">We love noodles so much that we wrote a whole cookbook dedicated to noodles.</a> We never tire of eating and making noodles at home and we’re always noodling around with new recipes. This is one of our classic go-tos: a super simple umami packed sauce with wide chewy noodles. They’re ready in under 15 minutes and are full of flavor.
Ingredients
wide noodles– I’m using knife cut Chinese shanxi planed ribbon noodles or dao xiao mian (刀削面). They sell them at Asian grocery stores or<a href="https://amzn.to/3Wm8tR6">you can buy them online</a>. They’re essentially a wheat noodle with frilly edges that have a wonderfully silky chewy texture that holds up well to sauce. You can use any wide noodle you have in your pantry.
neutral oil – we need a bit of oil to cook up the garlic and toast the red pepper flakes so that everything gets amazingly fragrant and delicious.
garlic – 6 cloves of garlic because we’re garlic lovers. Feel free to adjust as needed.
red pepper flakes – this is what is going to bring the heat. This recipe calls for 1 tsp which is just spicy enough without being overpowering, but that depends on your spice levels. Remember, you can always add spice but you can’t take it away, so start small.
soy sauce – umami and saltiness to combine with the tiny bit of sugar we’ll add for a sweet and savory sauce.
gochujang – a little bit of gochujang (a spicy Korean sauce) adds savory sweetness and so much flavor. More on gochujang below.
brown sugar – just the lightest touch of brown sugar to highlight all the savory and spicy notes.
Leave a Comment