Hot Pot Sauce Noodles

Method5 steps

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   Step 1: Mix your chosen sauce ingredients in a serving bowl, tasting as you go. Choose any combination of sesame paste or peanut butter, soy sauce, shacha sauce, Chinese vinegar, chili oil, minced raw garlic, chopped scallions and chopped cilantro. The condiment amounts are to taste; you do not need to use every option.

   Uses Sesame paste to taste, optional sauce choice · Peanut butter to taste, optional sauce choice · Soy sauce to taste, optional sauce choice · Shacha (sacha) sauce to taste, optional sauce choice · Chinese vinegar to taste, optional sauce choice · Ready chili oil to taste, optional sauce choice · Raw garlic to taste, minced, optional sauce choice · Chopped scallions to taste, optional sauce choice

   
2. 2

   Step 2: Bring a pot of cooking water to a boil and add all 2 tbsp vegetable oil.

   Uses Water as needed in a pot for blanching greens and boiling noodles · 2 tbsp vegetable oil for the blanching and noodle-cooking water

3. 3

   Step 3: Add the washed leafy greens to the boiling water and blanch for 30–60 seconds, checking from 30 seconds, until tender enough for your chosen greens. Lift them out, let the excess cooking water drain, and add them to the sauce bowl. Keep the pot of water for cooking the noodles.

   Blanch the leafy greens · 1 minUses Boiling water with the measured vegetable oil · A handful of washed leafy greens, such as bok choy, choy sum, spinach or Chinese broccoli · Chosen hot-pot-style sauce in the serving bowl

   
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   Step 4: Bring the reserved cooking water back to a boil. Add one serving of the chosen dried or fresh noodles and cook according to the packet directions until done. Drain the cooked noodles, leaving the cooking water behind.

   Uses Reserved hot cooking water after lifting out the greens · 1 serving of ready-to-cook noodles, dried or fresh

   
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   Step 5: Add the drained cooked noodles to the bowl of sauce and blanched greens. Toss until the noodles and greens are coated, then enjoy the one-person bowl.

   Uses Sauce bowl with the drained blanched greens · Drained cooked noodles for one serving