These refreshingly spicy noodles require only a few simple ingredients and less than 10 minutes of your time.
Shanghai summers are hot and humid, meaning that any extravagant cooking was usually off the table. Keeping the apartment cool was more important! This meant we ate a lot of noodles (requiring on a quick boil) mixed with a variety of delicious sauces and condiments. If lazy, it'd be a simple mixture of soy sauce, black vinegar, and sesame oil.
However, this spicy soy sauce noodles takes it up a notch with some spicy chili bean sauce and fragrants (e.g. garlic, scallions).
If you're looking to save time on home cooking, check out my other 10 minute recipes which include Peanut Sesame Cold Noodles or Shanghai Thick Stir-Fry Noodles.
Ingredients
- Thin wheat noodles: If you ever go into an Asian supermarket, you'll find that there are a lot of options for thin wheat noodles from a variety of Asian countries. There's no particular one, but I try to seek out thin rounded wheat noodles.
- Light soy sauce: Light soy sauce is the soy sauce you usually find at any supermarket, you can also use the low-sodium version.
- Chinese black vinegar: Chinese black vinegar is mildly acidic and sweet, which helps to balance out the soy sauce flavors. Chinese black vinegar can be more commonly found at Chinese super markets such as 99 Ranch or on Amazon. However, you can also sub with rice vinegar.
- Sesame oil
- Scallions
- Garlic
- Lao Gan Ma Spicy Chili Crisp: This ingredient is a must-have in any Chinese household. It's added to dips and a variety of sauce mixtures to give everything a bit of a kick. If you're worried about the spice level, you can cut this amount by half. You can find Lao Gan Ma at any Asian supermarket or online.
- White toasted sesame seeds
See recipe card for quantities
Instructions
- Mince garlic. Add to a bowl with Lao Gan Ma, soy sauce, sesame oil, and black vinegar.
2. Add in chopped scallions and mix ingredients well.
3. Boil 2 bundles of thin wheat noodles per package instructions. Rinse under cold water and drain. Rinsing the noodles under cold water keeps the noodles springy.
4. Pour spicy soy sauce mixture on noodles and mix. Top with extra chopped green scallions and toasted white sesame seeds
📖 Recipe
Spicy Soy Sauce Noodles
Ingredients
- 120 grams thin wheat noodles
- 3 cloves garlic (minced)
- 2 tablespoon light soy sauce
- 2 tablespoon Lao Gan Ma Chili Oil Crisp
- 2 teaspoon Chinese black vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 stalks scallions
- 2 teaspoon white toasted sesame seeds
Instructions
- Mince garlic. Add to a bowl with Lao Gan Ma, soy sauce, sesame oil, and black vinegar.
- Add in chopped scallions and mix ingredients well.
- Boil 2 bundles of thin wheat noodles per package instructions. Rinse under cold water and drain.
- Pour spicy soy sauce mixture on noodles and mix. Top with extra chopped green scallions and toasted white sesame seeds
Jamie says
These noodles are delicious and flavorful!
Alexandra says
Delicious and flavoursome - love these noodles.
Jean says
quick delicious noodles for busy nights
andrea says
These were yummy!
Dana says
This such a tasty quick dinner. It's the perfect pantry meal.
Freya says
Super fast and delicious noodle recipe!
Jerika says
I love this spicy noodles because it requires only few simple ingredients and it's ready in less than 10 minutes.:)
Nora says
Just the thing when you need to whip up a quick meal! Perfect!
Jan says
for such a simple recipe this ticked my boxes. It was so flavoursome, I will be making these regularly
Luke says
This Spicy Soy Sauce Noodles recipe was superb; it made a great midweek meal that we all enjoyed and will be on the dinner list for next week 🙂
Gloria says
Noodles are always a hit at dinner. Who needs takeout when you can make delicious meals like this at home? The family will love this.
Giangi Townsend says
As soon as I saw this recipe, I knew I had to make it. Absolutely delicious! Thank you. I finally found my new Chinese noodle dish.
Kyleigh says
so simple yet full of flavor!
Jere Cassidy says
Glad to find this recipe to get a good sauce for noodles. Luckily we have a great Asian market close and they carry these ingredients.
Nora says
Perfect for dinner! Love this easy recipe!
Freya says
Super quick noodles, delicious and full of flavour
Alexandra says
These noodles are delicious - what a great recipe!
Luke says
Simple noodle recipe with so much great flavours 😋
James says
Simple spicy and delicious, perfect for me.
Amy says
These are delicious!
Linda says
Noodles is my weakness, and this one is hard to skip