Garlic Noodles - Food Wishes

[Music] hello this is chef john from food wishes comm with garlic noodles that's right i'm gonna show you how to make San Francisco style garlic noodles which I'd have to say is one of our lesser-known local delicacies and while this is usually served as a side dish for garlic roasted crab it would pair perfectly with pretty much any other main course or as I'll be enjoying it today all by itself so with that let's go ahead and get started and we'll begin with our secret sauce and for that what we're gonna need is some soy sauce and not the low-sodium kind okay we're gonna need that sodium we're also going to need some oyster sauce and if you're not sure what that is I'll explain in the blog post and then we will also drizzle in a little bit of Worcestershire sauce as well as its distant cousin Asian fish sauce which I always feel like I have to remind people tastes like a hundred times better than it smells and then we will finish up with just a little touch of sesame oil as well as the obligatory shake of cayenne and that's it we will give that a stir with our freakishly small wooden spoon and as soon as that is mixed our secret sauce is done although once everybody sees the video we're gonna have to come up with a different name for the sauce and then besides that very savory solution we're also gonna need a ton of finely minced or crushed garlic as well as some butter to saute it in and believe it or not a little bit of freshly and finely grated Parmesan cheese and then last but not least a little bit of sliced green onion to garnish the top and by the way since this recipe comes together so quickly we are probably gonna want to prep all that stuff before we head to the stove which reminds me let's head to the stove where we're gonna melt our butter in a skillet set over medium heat and what we'll do as soon as that butter melts and starts to bubble it's carefully at our garlic and we'll cook that stirring for just about one minute okay we basically just want to take off the ROG we do not want this to brown so like I said we will stir that around for about one minute a fair warning it is gonna smell insanely good and then you may have heard the old saying keep your friends close your enemies closer and your secret sauce even closer than that and the reason we want that sauce right next to us is because as soon as our garlic is sizzled for about a minute and we think it's just right go ahead and quickly stir that in which will immediately stop the garlic from cooking any further in the butter all right so do not add the garlic to the pan unless you can reach your sauce and as soon as that's been stirred in we will simply turn off the heat and reserve that until needed in other words until our noodles are cooked and by noodles in my case I mean spaghetti which I'm going to go ahead and add to this very generously salted boiling water and in case you're wondering if other kind of noodles will work yes every single one of them so if you want to use some actual Chinese egg noodles like the ones they use for chow mein or maybe some ramen go for it I mean you are after all the Alexander Graham Bell of your garlic noodle so feel free to experiment with different varieties but personally a nice thick spaghetti is my favorite but anyway we have our sauce in the pan ready and waiting and our noodles are boiling nearby oh and I should mention we're not gonna drain the pasta when it's ready I'm just gonna use my tongs to fish it out like this and add it to the pan directly because we actually want a little bit of water coming with it all in one tip here cook the noodles all the way all right now dente pasta really doesn't work as well here so I cooked that spaghetti for the full time until it was perfectly tender at which point like I said we will fish that out and add it directly to the pan and the reason I'm doing it this way is you can probably see a little bit of water's coming with it which is very important all right we want to keep things nice and moist and what we'll do here is toss those noodles in the sauce until it's completely coated at which point we'll stop and add our cheese if we're using it and basically as soon as that's all been stirred in we are pretty much ready to serve and remember just like virtually every pasta noodle dish we make if we think things are getting a little dry we can always just add a little more that pasta water into the pan which is what you see me doing here and that's it once our noodles have been successfully sauced we can go ahead and plate up which I will be doing in one of my two Asian style bowls and then because this is maybe not the most visually impressive dish ever I do like to finish the top of the few red chili flakes as well as some sliced green onions and that's it our San Francisco style garlic noodles are done and if there was ever a recipe that under promised and over delivered it's this one alright it might seem kind of simple and not look that exciting but assuming you enjoy garlic this is going to be one of the best things you've ever eaten and it actually reminds me of the Italian pasta dish a Leo Lea and that it is so deceptively simple yet profoundly satisfying although I have to admit thanks to our formerly secret sauce this is actually much more savory and as I mentioned earlier this is traditionally served with a roasted garlic crab which really is an incredible pairing but these noodles would be just as good paired with something like shrimp or chicken or maybe even underneath a nice pork chop but of course the true test of any pasta noodle dish it has to be good enough to eat on its own and this my friends most certainly is and as you saw this was very simple to put together and extremely fast to make which is why I really do hope you give this a try soon so head over to food wishes comm for all the ingredient amounts of more info as usual and as always [Music] you

Channel: Food Wishes

Views: 1,320,399

Rating: 4.9347143 out of 5

Keywords: Garlic, Noodles, pasta, asian, san, francisco, chef, john, side, dish, main, recipe

Id: VZckD_bZlso

Length: 5min 47sec (347 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 15 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/SoiledPlumbus]

I'm gonna make this with glass noodles and shrimp for dinner tonight

[u/fitzbuhn]

It would be cool if anyone from this sub that makes the dish would also post it - I know this happens but we should do it more often. I plan to make this with zoodles and will post the results!

[u/etch_a_sketch]

This looks amazing!

[u/judsonaslan]

I'm making it tonight with imitation crab

[u/sayanything_ace]

Does anybody know why he's adding cheese? Seems so out of place in this dish.