I discovered a great website for Chinese cooking. https://thewoksoflife.com
My first recipe from this website is „Shanghai Scallion Oil Noodles“ (Cong You Ban Mean), as I had some pasta leftover (Spaghetti&Linguine&Bucantini).
Easy to make as a vegetarian version or you could add pork which would be classic or whatever you like. You can make it as a whole meal for 6 people or use this scallion oil by scoop for noodles and put the oil with scallions in the fridge. Use a container.
But be careful, it makes you addicted. haha
Finally, my version has room for improvement. Next time I will use a big sauteuese for frying instead of a wok, more surface for the scallions. And also I fry them longer and with more heat. My scallions were not crisp enough, but it tasted delicious anyway. Also I found the amount of oil used in the original recipe not enough, I added more. But first I will poste the original recipe. So you can decide for yourself.
Ingredients
1/3 cup oil
225g scallions, julienned
3 tbsp dark soy sauce
3 tbsp light soy sauce
4 tsp sugar
450g Chinese white noodles or Italian pasta
Preparation
- Trim the scallions
- Julienne carefully the white part first. Then julienne the green part, optional you can it in half and julienne then. Cook pasta.
- Heat the oil on medium heat in a big frying pan or big sauteuse. Fry the white part first, then add the green part. Be patient, it need some time until they are crisp.
- Here is the green part I added. It needs around 10-15min until done or crisp. Remove the scallions from the oil and set aside.
- Now add soy sauces and sugar to the oil and cook for 2-3min on low heat.
- Put the cooked pasta in a bowl and add the scallion-oil-soy sauce. Combine
- Put the scallions on op. Or put a scoop of pasta in a little bowl and add 1 tbsp oil and a bit scallions
- ENJOY
