Chinese spicy beef sauce (for noodles)
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef lean ground pork works well
- 4-5 tbsp oil (less if using full fat ground pork or beef)
- 3 tbsp broad bean paste
- 3 tbsp tian mian sauce
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp dark soy sauce
- ½ tsp 5 spice powder
- ½ tsp sugar
- 2 tbsp minced ginger
- 2 tbsp chopped scallion
Instructions
Cooking the meat sauce
- Cut the scallions and mince the ginger
- Put oil into a wok or into a saute pan, heat up on medium.
- Put a spatula into the oil and if there are small bubbles forming, it's ready. Put in the ground beef.
- Stir fry on medium until it's mostly cooked and water has evaporated
- Add in scallions and minced ginger and stir fry for about 1-2 minutes
- Add broad bean sauce, tiamian sauce, mix together.
- Add in soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar and 5 spice powder.
- Stir fry for another 2 minutes. Then it's done.
Assembling the noodles
- Boil wheat noodles
- Add noodles into bowl, add in the meat sauce.
- Top with some julienned cucumbers, scallions and cilantro. I also added some marinated mustard greens
- Add a few ladles of the noodle water (add more if you want a noodle soup)
