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Water Pulled Noodles

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Prep Time:40 minutes
Cook Time:15 minutes
Total Time:55 minutes
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Chinese
Keyword: Easy Dinner
Servings: 4

Ingredients

Noodles

  • 1½ cups all purpose flour
  • ½ cups water

Marinated pork

  • ½ lbs pork loin cut into thin strips
  • 1 tsp cornstarch
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tsp minced ginger

Veggies

  • 1 bell peppers
  • 1 onion
  • 3 tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp chopped scallions
  • 1 tbsp minced garlic

Sauce for the noodles

  • 3 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tsp dark soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp vegan or regular oyster sauce
  • ¼ tsp 5 spice powder optional
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp chili flakes
  • 1 tbsp water

Instructions

Making the dough

  • Combine flour and water together into a dough. Knead until there are no dried flour. Rest for 10 minutes.
  • Then knead into a smooth dough. You can continue to make the noodles or store it in the fridge overnight wrapped in saran wrap.

Prep for the noodles

  • Knead the dough and roll the dough into long logs. Cut the dough into 2-2.5 inch slices and flatten them
  • Put the dough into a bowl with some room temperature water, wait 20-30 minutes.

Prep protein and veggies

  • Cut the pork loins into thin strips. Marinade your pork loins by combining all the ingredients for the marinade. Set aside
  • Cut all your veggies into similar size as the pork, set aside
  • Combine soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, 5 spice powder, salt, chili flakes and water

Making the noodles

  • Bring a pot of water to boil
  • Pull the dough into oblong shape about 5 inches or 12cm long and 3 inch or 8cm wide. Put into the pot of boiling water.
  • Cook for 1-2 minutes and put the noodles into cold water and set aside.

Cooking the veggies, protein and noodles together

  • In a wok, put some oil and heat it up. Put the pork into and stir fry until there are no pink colour about 5 minutes
  • Add in garlic and stir fry for about 30s.
  • Add in the tomatoes and onions. Continue to stir fry for about 1 minute.
  • Add in the peppers and continue to stir fry for about 3 minutes.
  • Add in the sauce and continue to stir fry. Strain the noodles and put into the wok. Coat the noodles with the sauce and other ingredients.
  • Once the noodles has soaked all the flavours, it's ready to be served!

Notes

Make the dough ahead of time, wrap in plastic wrap and store in fridge. 
If you don't eat pork, can substitute with beef tenderloin, eye round. Choose cuts that are slightly more lean with a bit of fat. You can also use chicken as well. Adjust the cooking of the protein so you don't over cook  it.