A Family Favorite: Mapo Cellophane Noodles
A Family Favorite: Mapo Cellophane Noodles

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook a family favorite: mapo cellophane noodles using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make A Family Favorite: Mapo Cellophane Noodles:
  1. Make ready 10 grams Cellophane noodles (harusame)
  2. Get 150 grams Ground meat (any type of meat)
  3. Take 1 clove Garlic
  4. Get 1 piece 1 dash smaller than your thumbtip Ginger
  5. Make ready 1/2 stalk Japanese leek
  6. Take 2 tsp or 1 mushroom Shiitake mushroom
  7. Get 1/5 bunch Chinese chives
  8. Get 1 tsp Sesame oil
  9. Prepare 1 tsp Doubanjiang
  10. Make ready Seasonings
  11. Take 200 ml Soup stock (chicken or other)
  12. Get 2 tbsp Sweet Miso (or tianmianjian - Chinese sweet bean sauce)
  13. Get 1 tsp Soy sauce
  14. Take 1 tsp ☆ Katakuriko
  15. Get 1 tbsp ☆ Water

Take the meat-miso out of the pan. Finely chop the garlic, ginger and leek. Rehydrate the wood ear mushrooms and slice into thin strips. I ordered the white rice with mapo tofu, cellophane noodle, braised pork.

Steps to make A Family Favorite: Mapo Cellophane Noodles:
  1. Cut the vegetables. Finely chop the mushrooms, mince the leek, garlic, and ginger. Cut the garlic chives into 3cm lengths. Combine the seasonings and set aside.
  2. In a pan, add the ginger, garlic, and sesame oil, and turn on the heat.
  3. Stir the pan as it warms up, and add the ground meat. Be careful not to burn the garlic.
  4. When the meat is about 80% cooked, add the leek and mushrooms. Continue cooking.
  5. Add the doubanjiang, stir and continue cooking.
  6. Mix the seasonings.
  7. Bring the pot to a simmer. Add the cellophane noodles. You could also cut the noodles shorter with kitchen scissors.
  8. The noodles will quickly soften. Cook to reduce the liquid. Add the garlic chives. Mix the ☆ ingredients, and slowly add to the pan. This will thicken the sauce, so stop when the desired thickness is reached.
  9. I only add a small amount of doubanjiang, as I have small children but you can increase the amount if you want it spicier.

Rehydrate the wood ear mushrooms and slice into thin strips. I ordered the white rice with mapo tofu, cellophane noodle, braised pork. The white rice and the braised pork were ok but the mapo tofu and cellophane noodles were complete letdowns. Mapo tofu was bland, flavorless and not even spicy while the cellophane noodles literally tasted like nothing. My coworker ordered the braised fish, mapo tofu and eggplant.

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