Recipe - Noodles In Brown Bean Sauce

2 Or
3 Dried black mushrooms
Shredded vegetables
Egg threads
Three fourths pound Egg noodles
One half pound Lean pork
2 tablespoon Brown bean sauce
1 Clove garlic
2 tablespoon Oil
One half teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Hoisin sauce
One fourth cup Stock
One fourth teaspoon Sugar
1 ds Cayenne pepper

1. Soak dried mushrooms.

2. Prepare shredded vegetables and egg threads as in "Soy Jam Noodles".

3. Parboil noodles as in "Parboiled Noodles #1/#2" and keep warm.

4. Mince or grind pork. Dice soaked mushrooms. Mash brown bean sauce. Crush
garlic.

5. Heat oil. Add salt, then garlic, and brown lightly. Add pork and
stirfry until it loses its pinkness (1 to 2 minutes).

6. Add mushrooms; stirfry One half minute more. Quickly stir in brown bean
sauce, hoisin sauce and stock. Then cook, covered, 5 minutes over medium
heat, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with sugar and cayenne pepper.

7. Transfer noodles to a preheated bowl and pour the sauce over. Garnish
with egg threads and shredded vegetables and serve. VARIATION: For the
pork, substitute beef. For the brown bean sauce, substitute yellow bean
paste.

From The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, ISBN 0517658704. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.