Oriental noodles with peanut sauce
If you’re a fan of Vietnamese food, then you should be familiar with the peanut sauce that goes with the spring rolls. It’s a mixture of tamarind paste, peanut butter and hoisin sauce, thinned down a bit with hot water. I love that peanut sauce. I can dip steamed dimsum and lumpiang togue (fried bean sprout spring rolls) in it and not think about how weird it is. I love the Vietnamese peanut sauce so much that I decided to find out if it would work as the sauce base for chow mein. The result became yesterday’s lunch.
Thing is, chow mein does not have to be swimming in starch-thickened sauce to be good. The addition of oyster sauce is not a must either. Anything can be used to flavor chow mein so long as everything blends well together. That should take the weirdness out of tossing the noodles with peanut sauce.
At the risk of sounding self-serving, let me tell you that this noodle dish is really, really good.
Serves 6.
Ingredients for noodles with peanut sauce
250 g. of egg noodles
200 g. of sukiyaki cut beef, cut into 1/2-inch strips
6 cloves of garlic, finely minced
2 shallots, finely sliced
8 pcs. of baby corn*see note below, cut into thirds
1 small carrot, julienned
15 pieces of green (Baguio) beans, trimmed and cut into half-inch lengths
1 finger chili, sliced thinly
1/2 c. of creamy peanut butter
1/4 c. of hoisin sauce
1 tbsp. of kalamansi juice
1/2 tsp. of sesame seed oil
patis (fish sauce), for seasoning
salt
pepper
6 tbsps. of cooking oil
In a bowl, stir together the peanut butter, hoisin sauce and kalamansi juice with half a cup of hot water.
Cook the noodles in boiling water according to package directions. Drain and set aside.
Lightly season the beef with salt and pepper.
Heat the cooking oil to smoking point. Stir fry the beef just until no longer pink. Remove with a slotted spoon and keep warm.
Reheat the oil. Stir fry the green beans and carrot for about a minute. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
Reheat the oil once more. Saute the garlic, shallots and sliced chili until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Return the beef and vegetables to the pan. Season with patis and more pepper. Pour in the peanut sauce and stir.
Add the cooked noodles and toss until coated with the sauce and heated through. Off the heat, drizzle with sesame seed oil and toss a few times before serving.
Note about the baby corn:
*I used fresh, not canned, baby corn so I had to pre-cook them in boiling water for about 10 minutes before cutting them. You can skip this part if using canned baby corn.
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It’s that easy to make peanut sauce? Wow! I like it very much too. Btw, what brand of egg noodles do you use? I haven’t really used dried egg noodles yet.
Naku, I threw away the packaging already. It’s a Chinese brand.
are egg noodles same as canton?
uy nabasa ko lang peanut sauce nagkainteres nako.
mas common kong gamitin yan as dipping sauce sa mga chicken satay na madalas naming orderin sa thai restaurant dito.
sarap kasi ng sauce, dami ko maglagay lagi.
para bang lechon sauce on lechon, ganun kasarap.
Hi! what’s a shallot? is it also onion leeks? sorry for my innocence, just starting to get around in cooking
Something to try na naman to Ms. Connie. Excited ako kasi, ang Asian Supermarket in my area is primarily a Vietnamese one. Mabibili ko ang egg noodles for sure. Thanks thanks.
Wow, these looks really yummy. Will try this one definitely.
I love peanut sauce on a salad.
yung shallots, kamaganak ng onion.
mas maliit at mas sweeter ang flavor.
madalas gamitin pang caramelized.
nakisagot lang po.
Sibuyas tagalog, in short.
O, teka, baka may smartass na magsabi na ang shallots eh dahon ng sibuyas. Mali! Scallions yun.
that looks absolutely yummy, ms. connie.
grabe talaga, pag bumibisita ako dito parang gusto ko kumain ng isang buong resto!
hehe!
i agree! noodles shouldn’t be swimming in cornstarchy mucky sauces!
looks wonderful!
Looks really good!
What’s kalamansi juice btw? Is that tamarind?
Not tamarind. It’s a citrus, actually. Link to kalamansi entry.