Dan dan zoodles full#

Ingredient hunting aside, I hope you give these noodles a try. Luckily, chili bean sauce and sesame paste (the Chinese kind) can be found in most Asian grocery stores, so you won’t really be running all over. You end up at interesting grocery stores and usually you find more than what you were looking for, in a good way. I love going on wild goose chases all over the city. Half the fun of cooking, I find, is sourcing weird ingredients. Most noodle soups take a long time to make, but this one is practically instant – dare I say faster than cooking up a pack of instant ramen? It takes a bit of effort to source the ingredients, especially the chili bean sauce and sesame paste, but once you have them in your pantry, you’ve got the makings of many many bowls of spicy soup noodles. It’s a popular dish in Japan, but there they interpret it more as a ramen noodle soup: chewy wheat noodles swim in a pork soup base seasoned with spicy bean sauce and a heavy hit of sesame paste.

Dan dan zoodles full#

It’s an Sichuan noodle dish, full of pickled vegetables, spicy chili oil, and minced pork. The inspiration for this dish is dan dan noodles, or dan dan mein. Zoodles are delicious no matter what, but I think they’re especially good in this Japanese inspired take on dan dan noodles. Every time I make zoodles, I turn to Mike and say, “we really should eat more zoodles.” I’m a huge zucchini fan, regardless of how it’s cooked, but turn them into noodles and I’m a zucchini monster.