Easy Vegan Zha Jiang Mian / Stir-fried soybean paste noodles 簡易素食版炸醬麵


I’ve ever introduced Taiwanese Zha Jiang Mian (炸醬麵) before, it’s a very common street food in Taiwan consisting of noodles topped with stir-fried pork mince and soybean paste. I do love the meaty taste of Zha Jiang Mian, but this classic noodles dish can be transformed to veggie version and it also tastes divine. This time I used Cauldron Foods marinated tofu pieces, they are already cooked with flavour so I don’t even need to add on too many sauces, and they are really convenient for making sauce mixture of Zha Jiang Mian particularly for this meatless Veganuary option.

Ingredients
-80g
Cauldron Foods marinated tofu pieces.

-1 tbsp Dou Ban Jiang (豆瓣醬)/ Soybean paste.

(I used Taiwanese one as it contains completed beans inside. Alternatively, you can find Lee Kum Kee soybean paste at oriental shops.)
-2 cloves of garlic, chopped.
-1 tbsp soy sauce.
-1 tsp sugar.

-1/2 cup of water to taste.

-Chopped spring onions and basil to garnish.


Method
-Heat vegetable oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium heat, add garlic and stir fry until fragrance.
-Add Dou Ban Jiang/soybean paste, stir fry over low heat until aromatic.
-Add soy sauce, sugar, tofu pieces and toss everything together.

-Add water to taste, let it simmer for 10 minutes over the lowest heat.
-Pour above tofu mixture over cooked noodles,
garnish with spring onions and basil leaves.

 



其實我是米飯擁護者,但近日的貼文都是以麵食居多,實在是因為煮麵要比煮飯來得快速許多啊!這次則用了Cauldron的豆腐干做了素版的炸醬麵,因為這款豆腐本身就已經有調理過了,所以豆瓣醬等醬料都可以斟酌減半,不用燉煮太久,稍微收汁就可以拌在乾麵上,算是簡單又快速的一道麵攤小品。(今天沒有特別弄溏心蛋,不然每次一擺都喧賓奪主;然後麵條我有特別「梳」過,終於擺起來比較整齊了,只是這梳的功力還要多練習,我自己是覺得沒有想像中好梳哈。)


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