Chinese
Dan Dan Noodles
Dan Dan Noodles is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 lb fresh wheat noodles
- 1 lb ground pork
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 1/4 cup Chinese sesame paste
- 3 tbsp chili oil
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tsp sugar
- 4 baby bok choy
- 4 scallions
- 1 tbsp neutral oil
How to cook it
- Whisk the sesame paste, chili oil, rice vinegar, sugar, garlic, and 2 tbsp soy sauce with 1/2 cup warm water into a smooth sauce and divide among four bowls.
- Heat the neutral oil in a skillet and brown the ground pork, breaking it up, until crisp, about 6 minutes.
- Add the ginger and remaining soy sauce and cook until the pork is glazed, about 2 minutes.
- Boil the noodles until tender, adding the bok choy for the last minute, then drain.
- Divide the noodles and bok choy over the sauce in each bowl.
- Top with the pork and scallions and toss together before eating.
Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Dan Dan Noodles, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Dan Dan Noodles carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Turkey Lettuce Wraps |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Mapo Tofu |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, Meat or fish, and Nuts and seeds
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Dan Dan Noodles takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on noodle, pork, sesame, and bok choy.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.