Biangbiang mian/noodles (handpulled noodles)
Biangbiang mian/noodles (handpulled noodles)

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, biangbiang mian/noodles (handpulled noodles). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Biangbiang mian/noodles (handpulled noodles) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Biangbiang mian/noodles (handpulled noodles) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Hot oil noodle- Biang Biang mian (Biang Biang noodles) is a very interesting and popular dish in Shaanxi province. And definitely it was one of my favorite dishes during my four years of university life. If you never tasted it or have little background information.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have biangbiang mian/noodles (handpulled noodles) using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Biangbiang mian/noodles (handpulled noodles):
  1. Make ready For the noodle dough:
  2. Get 300 g pasta or plain flour
  3. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon salt (use more or less depending on preference)
  4. Make ready 130 ml water (use more or less depending on flour)
  5. Get Oil for coating noodles:
  6. Make ready 1/4 cup vegetable oil, to coat the fresh noodles (use more or less depending on quantity of noodle)
  7. Make ready Cooking the noodles:
  8. Take 5 cups (boiled kettle water)
  9. Prepare 1/3 cup water, cold
  10. Prepare Blanching the vegetable:
  11. Make ready 2 pak choi, stems into wide strips and leaves into finer strips
  12. Take Assembling the noodles:
  13. Get 2 garlic clove, finely minced or grated
  14. Get 1-2 spring onion, finely sliced
  15. Make ready 1-2 teaspoons chili powder
  16. Get pinch salt, for each serving
  17. Take 2-3 teaspoons light soy sauce serving (add more or less depending on preference)
  18. Prepare 1-2 tablespoons black rice vinegar per serving (add more or less depending on preference)
  19. Make ready Hot oil:
  20. Get 2-3 tablespoons vegetable cooking oil, per serving

The noodles are usually topped with vegetables and herbs such as spring onions, garlic, leeks, coriander, Sichuan peppercorns, cumin, and chili. Using both hands carefully pull both ends of a flat piece out and swing it up and down making it thinner and. Biang Biang noodles are also called You Po Che Mian (油泼扯面) which literally means "Oil pouring over hand-pulled noodles". This name explains a particular method of seasoning "You Po": place chilli flakes, chilli powder, ground Sichuan pepper, minced garlic and scallions on top of the cooked. by Tim Chin Biang Biang noodles are a popular dish from the Shaanxi province of China. (Shaanxi is situated geographically between the Shanxi and Sichuan provinces.) They are handmade, flat, belt-like noodles often served with lots of hot pe.

Steps to make Biangbiang mian/noodles (handpulled noodles):
  1. To make the noodle dough in a large bowl, mix salt with flour. Then add water and stir bit by bit. Using either an electric mixer with a dough hook attachment to mix or if by hand using chopsticks. Tip: add the required water amount first to see whether the dough forms and is kneadable. If not add a tiny drop more water at a time until the dough forms a ball.
  2. Continue kneading the dough until smooth. Cover the noodle dough with cling film and let it rest for 20 minutes.
  3. Then after 20 minutes knead the dough again, until the surface of the is really smooth. This will make the dough easier to work with later and make it very pliable when stretching the dough to make the noodles. Cover the dough again with cling film and let it rest for another 20 minutes.
  4. In a small bowl pour the vegetable oil. In a medium size baking tray lightly coat and brush with vegetable oil. Remove the noodle dough from the mixing bowl and place on a chopping board. Weigh the dough and cut into two equal halves. Using the first half of the dough cut the dough into 6 portions, cover the other half with cling film (to prevent it drying out). There will be 12 noodle logs in total.
  5. Shape each one portion into a long log and brush all over with oil. Repeat the process for the second half of the dough. Once all the noodle dough have been shaped and oiled cover with cling film. Let the noodle log rest for at least 1 hour or until ready to use and set it aside. Tip: If making the noodles in advance put the noodle log into the fridge and take out an hour before use to let the noodles come to room temperature.
  6. In a large saucepan pour in the boiled water. On medium heat, bring water to a boil. In the meantime take one noodle log out and place it on a clean flat surface or on a large silicone mat.
  7. Flatten it and using a rolling pin roll out side ways to make the dough wider (make it as wider as per preference) and then roll out into a wide rectangle. Using chopsticks press it into the middle of the dough to indent it. Tip: this makes it easier to separate the noodles later.
  8. Then gripping and holding the two ends of the noodle strip slam the noodle dough against the silicone board flat surface This creates the smacking sound. While smacking the noodle dough slightly stretch it during the smashing process. This will make the noodles long. Tip: Stretch out the noodles slowly to prevent breakage.
  9. Once noodles are at desired length, separate noodles along from the chopstick trace. Tip: separate the noodles all the way to have two noodle pieces or partially separate but don't rip one end to have one long noodle. Repeat the process until you have the desired amount for that portion. I usually cook 6 strands at a time. Then separate noodles per portion in the bowls. Tip: If making it for a large family double the portion size. Have two pots of water on the go so you can cook more at once.
  10. Go back to the pot of boiling water and add the stems of the pak choi. Once they are half way cooked, add in the noodles. Once water boils again add cold water. And then add the leaves of the pak choi to blanch. Once noodles are cooked transfer the noodles and vegetables into a bowl.
  11. In the meantime, on medium to high heat in a pan or pot add 2 vegetable oil and heat it up until slightly smoky (this makes 1 serving). Turn off the heat.
  12. Then place as little or as much of the garlic, green onion and chilli powder on top on top of the noodles and pour the hot oil over the noodles (mainly over garlic, spring onions and chilli powder). Lastly, add soy sauce and black vinegar and mix well. Repeat process 6 to 12 for the remaining servings.
  13. Eat and serve immediately while the noodles are pipping hot. Tip: this batch should make enough for anyone that fancies a second round of biang biang noodles.

Biang Biang noodles are a Northern Chinese specialty, hailing from Shaanxi Province. They are generally wide, thick, and chewy, and most importantly, hand-made, giving these biang biang noodles a slightly uneven texture that clings to that signature spicy cumin. I ate these noodles for the first time yesterday! Fantastic meal but expensive once you include dry cleaning your suit lol. I wanted to ask, is cooking Dan Dan Biang Biang Mian (what a literal and figurative mouthful!) something conventional?

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