Old Beijing Braised Noodles

Old Beijing Braised Noodles

Overview

Braised noodles in old Beijing used to just add fungus, yellow flowers, eggs, and pork belly. Nowadays, you can try adding mushrooms and other fungi to make the noodles delicious and fragrant. Braised noodles are very easy to make. The process is simple and easy to learn. When making, you can use one burner to make braised noodles and another burner to make boiled noodles. You can have steaming braised noodles in just over half an hour

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Steps

  1. Wash the goldenrod, fungus, shiitake mushrooms and hericium and soak them in water. Be sure to keep the water used for soaking the shiitake mushrooms and discard the other water after soaking. Then cut off the hard knots at both ends of the yellow flowers, and cut the mushrooms, fungus, and Hericium into strips

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 1
  2. Cut the pork belly into cubes and simmer the sliced pork belly with soy sauce and cooking wine

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 2
  3. Beat two eggs and set aside

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 3
  4. Chop green onion and ginger

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 4
  5. Put oil in the pot, fry the aniseed, peppercorns, cinnamon, etc. until fragrant and then remove them

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 5
  6. Then add onion and ginger and stir-fry

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 6
  7. Add pork belly and stir-fry until cooked through

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 7
  8. Add the yellow flowers, fungus, mushrooms, etc. and stir-fry. Keep stirring with a spatula.

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 8
  9. After stir-frying until the aroma comes out (about two or three minutes), add an appropriate amount of soy sauce, then add an appropriate amount of hot water, and add water starch to thicken it.

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 9
  10. When thickening the soup, turn down the heat and do not boil the soup. Stir the soup with a spatula while thickening to thicken the soup evenly. Then add the eggs, roll them into pieces, add a small amount of salt, turn up the heat, wait for the marinade to roll, pour sesame oil and serve.

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 10
  11. The noodle stew is ready, and the water on the other burner is boiling. Add the noodles. After the water is boiled, take out the bowl, pour the stew on it, and a bowl of hot and fragrant stewed noodles is ready

    Old Beijing Braised Noodles step 11