{"id":27810,"date":"2024-09-07T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T07:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamafoodblog.com\/?p=27810"},"modified":"2024-09-06T22:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T05:07:46","slug":"extra-easy-zha-jiang-mian-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamafoodblog.com\/extra-easy-zha-jiang-mian-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zha Jiang Mian Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I had to choose a noodle that I could name as my number one top comfort food and eat forever and ever it would be zha jiang mian aka “fried sauce noodles.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an absolute breeze to make the sauce and it keeps well in the fridge which means bowls of salty, sweet, and savory noodles are ready in a flash.<\/p>\n

What is zha jiang mian?<\/h2>\n

Translated, zha jiang mian means \u201cfried sauce noodles\u201d in Mandarin and essentially that\u2019s what it is: a bunch of sauces fried up together and served tossed with noodles. It\u2019s originally from Beijing and made with two types of fermented bean paste: ganhuang jiang (fermented yellow soy bean paste) and tianmian jiang (sweet fermented flour and bean paste). These two pastes combine together into an AMAZING salty, sweet, punchy, complex sauce.<\/p>\n

The meat sauce is kind of reminiscent of a Chinese Bolognese except it only takes 15 minutes to make. For this version we\u2019re going for quick and easy. This zha jiang mian is crazy delicious even when it\u2019s simplified by using easy to find Chinese ingredients \u2013 the kind you can find at Target. Make a double batch and keep it in the fridge: you can add as much or as little sauce as you like to your noodles. If you love noodles and meaty sauce, you\u2019ll love this. It\u2019s full of umami, sweet and salty flavors, and it tastes like comfort in a bowl. The deep punch of flavors is offset but crunchy, juicy cucumbers and the contrast between the freshness of the cucumbers, the savoriness of the sauce, and the chewiness of the noodles will make you want to eat more and more.<\/p>\n

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Zha jiang mian ingredients<\/h2>\n