Name: Chongqing Small Noodles
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 200g water surface; 100g Water spinach; 10g Peanuts; 1 tablespoon Cooked rapeseed oil; 2 tablespoons Minced garlic; 2 tablespoons Chili oil; 1/2 spoon MSG; 1 tablespoon pepper powder; 1 tablespoon lard; 1/2 spoon Chicken Essence; 2 tablespoons ginger; 2 pieces Chives; 10g Sprouts; 2 tablespoons Soy sauce; 1 tablespoon sesame oil

Chongqing Small Noodles

by Heart clear as water and pale as clouds

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

When it comes to the impression of Chongqing, people must first think of hot pot, beauty, mountain city, etc. However, if I say that there is a delicacy in Chongqing that is more famous than hot pot, Chongqing small noodles are ranked before hot pot. Small noodles are what Chongqing people and Sichuan people call noodles. In a narrow sense, small noodles refer to noodles seasoned with green onions, garlic, sauce, vinegar, and chili peppers. In the discourse system of old Chongqing, even if beef fried sauce is added, Noodles with luxurious toppings such as pork ribs are also called small noodles. Unlike the noodles somersaults in other regions, which are particular about eating noodles, the soup is fresh and strong. The Chongqing people's standard for evaluating the quality of small noodles is the seasoning, and the seasoning of the small noodles is its soul. Chongqing people love Chongqing small noodles as much as hot pot. When they get up early in the morning, the street noodle stalls are particularly prosperous. Although the decoration of the hall is not good, and there is even no hall, the beautiful women never consider their lady image at this time and eat. That's a fragrance; a gentleman in a suit and leather shoes puts down his briefcase, whistle- whistle- whistle, and eats up a bowl of Chongqing noodles. In front of the noodle stall, men, women and children-white-collar workers, sticks, elementary school students, etc., gathered together, regardless of background or status, for a bowl of Chongqing noodles.

Chongqing Small Noodles

1. Prepare various seasonings

2. Chop the ginger and garlic into a bowl, pick and wash the chives and cut into chopped green onions

3. Adjust the juice while the noodle water is not boiling: add 2 spoons of soy sauce, 1/2 spoon of chicken essence, 1/2 spoon of monosodium glutamate, 1 spoon of green onion

4. 1 tablespoon pepper powder

5. 2 tablespoons chili oil

6. 1 tablespoon of lard, 1 tablespoon of cooked rapeseed oil, 1 tablespoon of sesame oil, 1 tablespoon of peanuts and sprouts

7. After the water is boiled, add the noodles, then quickly stir it with chopsticks, add the water spinach, cook until it is broken, and cut a section with your hands. If there are no white spots, you can fill the bowl.

8. Add 2 tablespoons of noodle soup to the seasoning bowl. If you have bone soup at home, it’s best.

9. Put the water spinach into the bowl first, then the noodles, put some noodle soup, and pour in the adjusted juice.

Tips:
1. Soy sauce, you don't need expensive light soy sauce or dark soy sauce, soy sauce is enough, why put it first? Because there is nothing in the bowl to control the amount of soy sauce, you can put less first, and add salt in case it gets weak, remember not to add soy sauce to the cooked noodles;
2. MSG and Essence of Chicken, if you have seen those well-known noodles put seasonings, you know how important MSG is to them, and it is recommended to put more;
3. Mixed oil: lard, vegetable oil, sesame oil, you must put more oil, this is also the key, friends who don’t like to eat lard can use vegetable oil, salad oil and sesame oil to replace it, but without lard, it’s definitely not as fragrant. Oh.