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About four years ago, I shared my take on the Vietnamese-style garlic noodles made famous by the An family of Crustacean restaurant. Garlic noodles remain my favorite noodle dish all these years, and the recipe is the ones that I have always tried to perfect each time I make the noodles. That’s the fun of cooking—our cooking skills and techniques progress and improve over time, and a good recipe could become an excellent recipe with time if we continue to fine-tune it.
My favorite homemade version is the ones made with yellow noodles, or marketed as “Taiwanese noodles” or “油面” in the United States. The noodles are, well, yellow as the name suggests, and they are very oily as each strand of the noodle is generously coated with oil. Yellow noodles are also commonly found in Malaysia and Singapore as they are used in many hawker food dishes.
After many attempts, I now have a garlic noodles recipe that involves a two-part cooking process. First, making the garlic sauce, and secondly, mixing the blanched noodles with the garlic sauce. I absolutely love this method as I can always make a batch of the garlic sauce and toss the noodles right before serving. This ensures that garlic noodles always taste fresh and delectable, and not soggy or cold. Also, if you are like me, who prefer a heavier and more garlicky taste, you can add some extra garlic sauce to taste.
You can eat the garlic noodles plain or serve it with my roasted crab recipe. One of these days, I will have to share my grilled prawn recipe to go with these sinfully luscious and delicious garlic noodles!
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It’s like the Chinese version of Spaghetti Aglio Olio! Fantastic!
what is “maggie sauce”?
Sorry, a typo. It’s Maggi. http://www.asiansupermarket365.com/Maggi-Seasoning-p/hmsbslej.htm?1=1&CartID=0
What is Maggie sauce?
Check the Asian section of your supermarket. It’s right there with the fish sauce, soy sauce and sesame oil. It’s Maggi seasoning. It’s dark brown and comes in a bottle.
Thanks for your recipe, it seems simple to prepare. Will try this out. ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ
I lived in Malaysia for 14 years and these are my favorite kind of noodles. If you add in small pieces of fried lard and fried pork balls, eat with some hot sambal chili, it is truly heaven.
My hubby ate an Italian version nearly everyday and was addicted for 5 years! This looks yummy, Bee.
How long do you cook the noodles???
Yum-yum-yum! And please do post that grilled prawn
recipe very soon. I can’t wait to try them both together!
A question about the noodles themselves. Do we look for these in the refrigerated case? Also, are you using the French Frentel butter and would it make a significant difference?
No not refrigerated area but the place they sell fresh noodles.
I never cook with MSG. Maggi sauce has MSG in it. I always try to find a substitute for MSG. MSG is a major cause of weight gain in Filipinos. I know it makes the food taste good, but the health concerns of MSG far outweigh the boost in taste. I use combinations of salt, in moderation, ginger, garlic, cumin, pepper, and turmeric in place of MSG. Soy sauce has natural MSG in it, but most soy sauce manufactures add additional MSG. I always read the label. Just a suggestion, but it would great if you could suggest healthier alternatives to Maggi sauce.
I have no problem using MSG products and only use it in a few of my recipes. Feel free to opt out the Maggi sauce in this recipe and use more oyster sauce.
John, I wasn’t aware that MSG is a cause of weight gain, but other unpleasant side effects (dizziness, dry mouth, difficulty breathing) are well-documented. Unfortunately, MSG is frequently used as a cheap shortcut to flavour (it’s a substitute for using great ingredients or putting in cooking time to extract the most from those ingredients), and as such, is common in most Asian restaurant/takeout dishes and processed foods. I was disappointed to not find a single chili sauce in the local Asian market that did not contain MSG in the ingredients list. I think your substitutions are a great alternative, thanks for the advice!
Thanks for the garlic noodles recipe. It seems like you really improved your technique over the years.
Garlic and noodles are one of my fave combos. So delicious!!
Thank you for sharing this Bee!! I now foresee my future as the most popular guest at potlucks ;)
You had me at garlic! And this sounds and looks really delicious. Must be bursting with garlicky goodness :) You reckon I can substitute the noodles with spaghetti instead?
My husband made these noodles for dinner tonight as an accompaniment to ginger scallion beef. The noodles were wonderful! My local supermarket doesn’t sell the noodles featured in the recipe, so we improvised with a similar type.
Yum! Garlic noodles are one of my favorite noodle dishes! I can’t wait to try this recipe!
I love almost anything to do with garlic!!! Sounds amazing!
Just made this tonight! Awesome! I didn’t have maggi sauce so I substituted with soy sauce and used hondashi (Japanese dashi powder) and water to substitute for the fish sauce. I garnished with chopped cilantro. I totally forgot the parmesan cheese so I’ll have to add that next time. My fiance loved it so much he made me write down the recipe for him. This is a keeper!
two questions.
First how many people is this recipe for? and second how long approximately are the noodles supposed to cook?
Thank you
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