Recipe - Stir-Fried Noodles With Black Bean Sauce

450 g Chinese noodles
60 ml Oil
1 2 One half cm pie fresh root
ginger; peeled and chopped
1 bn Spring onions; trimmed and
cut
; into 7.5cm lengths
225 g Courgettes; trimmed and cut
; into long shreds
1 Red pepper; halved, seeded
and
; cut into thin
; shreds
225 g Beansprouts; washed
30 ml Chinese black beans or black
bean sauce
15 ml Chilli sauce
400 g Tinned chopped tomatoes
Soy sauce
Salt and pepper

Put the noodles to cook in a pan of boiling water with a pinch of salt and
a drop of oil. They usually cook more quickly than pasta so don't let them
go too far about 8 minutes is fine. Allow to rest in the cooking liquid
while you make the rest of the dish.

In a wok or large frying pan, put 2tbsp of oil and add the ginger, garlic
and spring onions. Toss quickly for 1 minute, add the courgettes, red
pepper and beansprouts and stir fry for 3 minutes.

In a small pan, put the remaining oil, the black beans or black bean sauce,
the chilli sauce and tomatoes. Stir and bring to the boil. Add soy sauce to
the first vegetable mixture and check for seasoning.

Assemble the dish by draining the noodles thoroughly and stirring one third
of the beansprout mixture into them. Put this in a layer in a serving dish.
In the centre of that, put the rest of the beansprout mixture and then, in
a third layer in the centre, carefully pour the tomato and black bean
mixture, which should have reduced to the thickness of double cream.

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