Hot and Sour Noodle Soup (suan la fen 酸辣粉）
15 minutes sour spicy potato noodle soup for easy lunch or dinner. It's perfect for days where you are too tired to cook and spicy sour soup will help to stimulate your appetite.
Ingredients
Aromatic oil
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 1 tbsp chopped scallions
- ½ tsp sesame seeds
- ½ tbsp chili flakes Korean Chili flakes
- Pinch of ground Sichuan peppercorn
- Pinch of ground white pepper
Sauce
- 1½ tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
- 2 tbsp black Chinese vinegar
- ½ tsp sugar
Noodles and other ingredients
- Handful potato noodles soak in hot water for 5 minutes
- Leafy vegetables Bok choy, pea shoots leafs, napa cabbage are good choices
- thinly sliced beef brisket optional
Toppings
- Fried peanuts optional
- cilantro
Instructions
- Soak some potato noodles in some hot water.
- Wash any veggies
- Cut up the scallions, mince garlic. Also cut up some cilantro
Making the sauce
- Combine garlic, scallion, sesame seeds, chili flakes, Sichuan peppercorns, white pepper into a bowl
- Heat up oil in a small pot
- Once the oil is starting to smoke, take it off the heat, then pour over the aromatics
- Once it's stopped bubbling, add in soy sauce, oyster sauce, black Chinese vinegar and sugar. The sauce is done
- Boil some water, add in your veggies, potato noodles and thinly sliced beef. Cook for about 2 minutes, remove any scum on top. Potato noodles should still have a bite to it.
- Add some the water from the pot into your noodle bowl with your sauce.
- Put the potato noodles, veggies and beef brisket into the bowl.
- Top off with some cilantro and peanuts (optional). Enjoy!