Dry-Tossed Char Siu Noodles

If you're looking for the spirit that makes a roast pork bun sing, this is it. The pork unsocial implicit noodles is astir austere, but a wide ablution of scallions and ginger and condiment pulls it together.

The satellite of legume pastes and legume sauces tin beryllium confusing. Terms are translated and utilized interchangeably and tin beryllium ambiguous. For the yellowish legume paste called for successful this recipe, you're looking for a creaseless condiment -- it's really brown, not yellowish -- that's a small spot sweet. It mightiness beryllium labeled "sweet legume sauce."

Slicing the meat, alternatively than dicing it, makes it a spot easier to manage. There's capable pork that you tin treble the noodles and conscionable astir service 4, if you prefer.

Yellow legume paste, Shaoxing atom wine, airy soy condiment and caller wonton oregon Hong Kong noodles are disposable astatine ample Asian markets.

The pork needs to marinate successful the refrigerator overnight.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 3)

• Calories

  580

• Fat

  18 g

• Saturated Fat

  4 g

• Carbohydrates

  58 g

• Sodium

  2570 mg

• Cholesterol

  100 mg

• Protein

  47 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  21 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Chinatown Kitchen: From Noodles to Nuoc Cham,” by Lizzie Mabbott (Mitchell Beazley, 2015).

Tested by T. Susan Chang.