One fine day...
LG: Mummy, do u know what Pucca and her friends like to eat?
Me: Hmmm..... zha jiang noodle? (ok, I admit I watched with little girl occasionally, cos Pucca is so cute!)
LG: YES! How do u know mummy?
Me: Hahaha.... cos I'm your mummy, I know everything! * Wink * You wanna try zha jiang mian? May be I can cook it for u.
LG: Ooh... but it is hot & spicy!
Me: I can make a non-spicy version for u, ok?
LG: Yeah!
So after promising her, I look-see for recipe of zha jiang mian, but most of them require ingredients (黃醬-yellow soy bean paste，甜面醬-sweet bean sauce) that I couldn't find in the supermarket here. Then, while grocery shopping at Jusco Mid Valley last week, I found a bottle of sweet yellow bean paste, thought it should be close to the sweet bean sauce.
When I browsed thru the web again today, I found this site (Eupho Cafe) where miso was added to the recipe. This gonna be very interesting, I decided to follow the recipe with minor changes, and the zha jiang mian gonna be our dinner tonite.
Ingredients
6 tbsp miso
4 tbsp sweet yellow bean paste
1 cup water
400g minced pork (I had about 350g)
50g mushroom, diced
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp water
2 tbsp cooking wine
1.5 tbsp corn flour
2 tbsp ginger, diced (change to onion and garlic as hubby & LG dislike ginger)
1 tbsp sugar
- Mix miso, sweet yellow bean paste with water, mix til combine
- Pour cooking wine, soy sauce and water into minced pork, mix til pork absorb all liquid, then stir in corn flour
- In a pan or wok, heat oil, stir fry minced pork til pale, remove from pan, set aside
- Fry onion, garlic and mushroom in pan til fragrant, add in sugar, then pour in miso mixture from (1), cook til boil, stir in cooked pork
- Cook pork mixture and let simmer for 15-20 minutes or until gravy turn slightly dry
Little girl's bowl of zha jiang mian
My bowl of zha jiang mian with plenty of red hot chili oil
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