Vegan Dan Dan Noodles

I had my eye on this for so long but didn't get a chance to make it and when I got it, Made it and it was perfect on the first try so I had to share it. Here I made it with soy crumbles, but you can make it with tofu and mushroom combo or just the mushroom or vegan chorizo works too.  Typically it made with pork so if you are a meat-eater, you can make it with pork, beef, chicken mince and enjoy it. It sounds and looks like a lot of preparation but its nothing, the dish has all different components in it but when you put together, it becomes a wholesome dish.

You have to prepare egg noodles and keep it aside. Make the sauce for this and keep it aside. Boiled the green vegetable (your choice) and keep it aside. Make "meat " filing and keep it aside. At the end of the bowl, you mix everything and enjoy the spicy bowl of noodles which is called Dan Dan noodles.  This dish originally from the Sichuan region in China and there they love to eat spicy food. But you can adjust the level of spice as per your liking.



Ingredients : 

Vegan Soy Crumble topping : 

1 cup soy crumbles
3 Green onions chopped
2 cloves of garlic chopped
1 1/2 tbsp tamari sauce or soy sauce
2 tbsp rice wine  vinegar
1 tbsp oil

Noddle sauce : 

4 tbsp Peanut butter
4 tbsp Tamari sauce
4 tbsp vinegar
4 cloves of garlic finely chopped
3 green onions finely chopped
1 tbsp Agave or sugar
1/3 to 1 cup Chili oil with flakes - Depend upon your taste buds

To assemble : 

10 oz Egg noodles or fresh noodles or spaghetti, vegan noodles
Any leafy greens, spinach, bok choi, swiss chard


Method : 

Sauce : 

Whisk peanut butter and tamari then add vinegar. Stir till it mixes it nicely. Then add garlic, onions, agave. Add chili oil spoon by spoon and taste it and as per your liking add less or more. The sauce should not be runny. Keep it aside.


for Topping : 

Heat a pan, add oil in it. add garlic and saute for a minute. Add green onion along with soy crumbles. Cook for 2 minutes.

Add sauces and mix it again. Turn off the flame and keep it pan.

Cook the noodles as per the instruction. Blanch the vegetable you are using.


To serve :

Take a bowl. add noodles first. Then add sauce on top then soy crumbles on top of it and on side put the vegetable. Mix well and enjoy hot or cold.