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Dinner · 20 min · 2 bowls

Soy dark noodles

Char the noodles in a hot pan with soy. Broccoli stems are welcome.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Char the noodles in a hot pan with soy. Broccoli stems are welcome.

What it needs

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  • rice noodles
  • chicken
  • soy sauce
  • garlic
  • broccoli

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: eggs.

Method

  1. Wide rice noodles soaked, not boiled, and separated by hand before they go near the pan.
  2. The pan must be violently hot. The charred edge on the noodles is the entire point of this dish and a warm pan gives you none.
  3. Sear in batches rather than crowding. One crowded pan steams and there is no recovering it.
  4. Egg pushed to one side and scrambled in the same pan, then everything folded together in the last thirty seconds.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

rice noodles
They keep cooking in whatever they sit in, so they come out of the water early and go into the sauce underdone.
chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
soy sauce
Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
broccoli
The stalk is better than the florets and most people throw it away.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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