Garlic Noodles

• servings: 2 servings
• active time: 5 minutes
• total time: 11 minutes

Ingredients

140g/ 5oz dried ramen or noodle cakes (2 cakes) - Note 1 for other options)

30g / 2 tbsp unsalted butter

2 tbsp (6 cloves) garlic, finely minced (yep, a lot!)

2 tsp oyster sauce (sub vegetarian oyster sauce)

2 tsp fish sauce (sub soy sauce - Note 2)

1 1/2 tsp Maggi seasoning (sub soy sauce - Note 3)

1/4 cup noodle cooking water (, more if needed (Note 4)

1/4 cup (tightly packed) finely grated parmesan ( (freshly grated, Note 5)

1/4 cup green onion (, thinly sliced (~1 stem)

Directions

Noodles - Cook the noodles in a large saucepan per packet directions. Scoop out ~1/2 cup cooking water. Strain noodles and set aside.

Sauce - Melt butter in the same saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic and cook, stirring until soft. Add oyster sauce, fish sauce, Maggi seasoning and 1/4 cup cooking water. Stir to combine.

Toss - Add cooked noodles, parmesan and green onion. Toss until the noodles are all coated, and the sauce is not pooled in the bottom of the saucepan. Add more cooking water 1 tbsp at the time, if needed to loosen the noodles.

Serve immediately!

Serving suggestion: fried egg and broccolini cooked with the noodles*, tossed with Asian Sesame Dressing you always have in your fridge. :)* Broccolini takes about 3 minutes, so put it into the water before/after/with the noodles depending on the noodle cooking time.

Notes

alex's notes: very salty, needs vegetables to balance it out

Nutrition

• Calories: 450 kcal
• Total Fat: 25 g
• Saturated Fat: 14 g
• Unsaturated Fat: 11 g
• Trans Fat: 0.5 g
• Cholesterol: 41 mg
• Sodium: 2535 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 45 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2 g
• Total Sugars: 2 g
• Protein: 14 g