Cong You Ban Mian (Chinese Scallion Oil Noodles)
Scallions cooked slowly in oil until dark and brittle, then tossed through noodles with the oil and soy.
⏱ 40 min total🔪 10 min prep🔥 30 min cookEasyServes 4Chinese
Ingredients
- •350 g Chinese wheat noodles
- •8 green onions, cut into 5 cm pieces
- •80 ml neutral oil
- •3 tbsp soy sauce
- •1 tbsp sugar
Directions
- 1Put the green onions and the oil in a cold pan together and set it over low heat.
- 2Cook twenty minutes, moving them occasionally, until they shrink and turn dark brown and brittle.
- 3Lift the scallions out and keep them; the oil is now the sauce.
- 4Add the soy sauce and sugar to the warm oil and stir one minute until the sugar dissolves.
- 5Cook the noodles four minutes, drain them, and tip them straight into the pan.
- 6Toss until every strand is coated, then scatter the crisp scallions back over.
💡 Low heat and twenty minutes. Rushed scallions turn bitter, and the whole dish is only this oil and these noodles.
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