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Vegetarian Dan Dan Noodles
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Vegetarian Dan Dan Noodles

Course: MainCuisine: ChineseDifficulty: Easy
Servings

4

servings
Prep time

20

minutes
Cooking time

20

minutes

A relatively easy-to-make weeknight meal. Also good refrigerated the next day. Adapted from the recipe for Dan Dan Noodles in Fuchsia Dunlop’s Every Grain of Rice.

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp Dan Dan noodle sauce (I use Spicy King brand)

  • 1 tbsp Lao Gan Ma sauce

  • 11 oz vermicelli

  • 5 green onions

  • 4 Morningstar Farms sausage links

  • 1 tbsp olive oil

  • 1 tsp sweet fermented sauce

  • 2 tsp port (or Shaoxing wine)

  • 1 tsp light soy sauce

  • 3 qts water

  • 8 baby Shanghai bok choy

Directions

  • Thaw sausages in microwave, then chop into small pieces (1/8 inch diameter).
  • Fry sausage crumbles in pan with oil until heated thoroughly.
  • Stir sweet fermented sauce, soy sauce, and port into sausage crumbles. Remove from heat.
  • Heat pot of about 3 qts water to boiling. Clean bok choy under running water.
  • Cut up green onions and add to large bowl.
  • Add Dan Dan noodle sauce and Lao Gan Ma sauce to bowl.
  • Blanch bok choy in boiling water for a couple of minutes.
  • Add 3/4 cup of hot bok choy water to large bowl and stir with green onions.
  • Add vermicelli to remaining hot water and heat to boiling.
  • When vermicelli are al dente, drain, and add to large bowl.
  • Stir, top with cooked bok choy, and sausage crumbles, and serve.