Sweet water noodles! A (perhaps underrated?) Sichuan noodle dish, this classic features some... really thick noodles.

0:00 - What makes these noodles special?
1:17 - How to make Stick Noodles
4:15 - How to make Sweet Water
5:47 - Other components, plus a lazy chili oil
7:00 - Mixing the noodles, plus other variations

FULL WRITTEN RECIPE

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That said, let's link Wang Gang's chili oil recipe and give you guys the ingredient lists below:

WANG GANG'S CHILI OIL RECIPE

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Note that he uses a mix of Zidantou chilis and Qixing chilis in the above video. You would swap the Zidantou to any red, fragrant chili (preferably a medium spicy one) and the Qixing chilis to any spicy chili.

NOODLES, INGREDIENT LIST

* High gluten flour (preferably a Chinese noodle flour or an Italian 00) 200g
* Salt, 4g (~¾ tsp)
* Water, 100g
* Oil, 1 tbsp (not in the dough – this is to coat after boiling)

'SWEET WATER', INGREDIENT LIST

* Soy sauce (生抽), 100g (~100mL)
* Slab sugar (片糖) or jaggery or dark brown sugar, 25g
* Spices:
star anise (八角), 1 pcs;
sand ginger (沙姜), 2 pcs;
cinnamon (桂皮), ½ stick;
Tsaoko a.k.a. Chinese black cardamom (草果), 1 pcs.

Note that Sand ginger is annoyingly sometimes labelled ‘dried ginger’ in English on some packages – use the characters to confirm. If you cannot find it, substitute with dried ginger or dried galangal. If you cannot find Tsaoko, you can substitute it with Indian black cardamom.

LAZY CHILI OIL, INGREDIENT LIST

* Red, fragrant chili powder, e.g. Shaanxi Qinjiao, Korean Gochugaru, Kashmiri Chili Powder, 2 tbsp.
* Optional: spicy chili powder, e.g. cayenne pepper
* Oil, ¼ cup
* Lao Gan Ma chili crisp, ¼ cup

ONE SMALL SNACK SIZED BOWL, INGREDIENT LIST

* Cooked noodles from above, 100g
* Chili oil, 2 tbsp
* Sweet water soy sauce, ½ tbsp
* Garlic water, ½ tbsp.
* Crushed toasted peanuts, 2 tsp
* Toasted sesame oil (麻油), ¼ tsp
* Sichuan peppercorn powder (花椒面), ¼ tsp
* Sugar, 1/8 tsp
* MSG (味精), 1/8 tsp

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