wide rice noodles / drunken noodles

topic posted Thu, June 1, 2006 - 5:03 PM by  John
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Hello All - I just had a dish of Drunken Noodles at a local spot here in Boston that was utterly amazing... I wondered how to best make this dish? My concern here is the wide rice noodles - for some reason, rice noodles and I don't get along - I've tried many times to prepare them correctly, and end up with a quivering mass of pale white gelatin... what is the best way to prepare wide noodles so that they don't stick together, and yet they are still fully cooked? - AND, if you are to stir fry them, how 'cooked' do they have to be before you toss them in the wok?
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  • Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles

    Thu, June 1, 2006 - 6:33 PM
    Here's my response for the same question in the "recipe exchange" tribe not too long ago:

    Pad See Ew (aka Drunken Noodles)

    Sauce:
    1 T Dark Sweet Soy Sauce
    1 T Oyster Sauce
    1T Fish Sauce
    1T Brown Sugar

    1 Egg
    Thinly Sliced Carrots
    Broccoli
    Rice Noodles (if you can find wide squares of rice noodles, that's the best - looks like giant flakes or use extra wide rice sticks)
    Meat (beef is most common, but you can do chicken, shrimp, tofu or none at all)

    Marinade for meat:
    1 clove garlic
    1 egg
    1 T cornstarch
    1 T rice wine
    1 T fish sauce
    1T oyster sauce
    1 T brown sugar
    1 t sesame oil
    1/2 t white pepper

    Marinade meat for at least 10 minutes. Soak noodles in hot water until almost cooked (or boil for less than one minute, you don't want them to become mushy).

    Heat wok/pan to medium high. Add meat. Add broccoli, carrots, noodles and sauce.

    If you're not using meat this is the order we found makes the best pad see ew - Garlic and oil, then egg. Just before the egg is done cooking, add the sauce, add the broccoli, then the noodles.

    I have a bag of frozen trader joe's broccoli in the freezer and make this when there's nothing else around. The noodles are dry and keep forever. Hope you like it! It's from my favorite thai cookbook.

    Here's a link to the cookbook I use (I love it - it hasn't steered me wrong yet!): www.amazon.com/gp/product...830-0072630

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