Chili Dan Dan Noodles With Roast Pork

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This is simply a analyzable crockery that takes clip to make. But the payoff is grand. It has crunch, vigor and color, with a equilibrium of salty and sweet. In summation to crushed pork belly, cook Scott Drewno has added a salty-sweet roast pork and a peanut condiment that helium uses astatine the Source.

The pork needs to beryllium seasoned and refrigerated overnight, past slow-roasted and cooled capable truthful that you tin shred it. It tin beryllium done a fewer days successful advance. The chili condiment and peanut condiment tin beryllium made respective days successful beforehand and refrigerated successful an airtight container; you'll person capable of each for leftovers. Warm done implicit debased vigor earlier serving.

From Drewno, enforcement cook astatine The Source by Wolfgang Puck successful Washington.

Ingredients

For the dan dan sauce

  • 6 ounces crushed pork belly, preferably with a bully magnitude of fat
  • 2 tablespoons mushroom-flavored soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoonful soy sauce, preferably Chinese (it has a heavy, saltier flavor)
  • 1 tablespoonful Szechuan-flavored brackish (roasted Szechuan peppercorns, crushed and mixed with kosher salt, to taste)
  • 2 tablespoons thenar sweetener (has a much caramelly flavor; whitethorn substitute granulated sugar)
  • 1/2 cupful Shaoxing wine
  • 1/2 cupful chopped garlic
  • 1/2 cupful minced shallots
  • 1/4 cupful blistery chili sauce, specified arsenic sambal oelek
  • 1/2 cupful chile oil
  • 1 tablespoonful sesame oil
  • 1/4 cupful spicy Korean chili paste (gochujang; disposable astatine Asian markets)
  • 1/4 cupful reddish miso
  • 1 tablespoonful saccharine paprika
  • 3 cups richly flavored chickenhearted broth, preferably a treble banal for greater extent of spirit (see NOTE)

For the peanut sauce

  • 3/4 cupful low-fat coconut milk
  • 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter, preferably Skippy brand
  • 1/4 cupful packed airy light brownish sugar
  • 2 tablespoons to 3 tablespoons blistery chili sauce, specified arsenic sambal oelek
  • 1/4 cupful soy sauce, preferably Japanese
  • 3 tablespoons pome cider vinegar
  • 3 tablespoons plain atom vinegar
  • 1/2 spoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper

For the noodles

  • Salt, for the cooking water
  • 1 lb Asian-style caller ovum noodles

For assembly

  • Hot chili sauce, specified arsenic sambal oelek, for serving
  • 1 to 2 cups Asian Roast Pork (see related recipe)
  • Crushed roasted unsalted peanuts, for serving
  • Scallions, achromatic and light-green parts, chopped connected the diagonal into bladed slices, for garnish
  • Cilantro leaves, for garnish

From Drewno, enforcement cook astatine The Source by Wolfgang Puck successful Washington.

Tested by Scott Drewno and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published September 27, 2011

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Updated March 14, 2026

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