Cold Spicy Noodles (Leng Mian) recipe

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Ingredients

4 ounces spaghetti, or as needed
2 cups very cold ice water
½ cup white vinegar
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons sambal oelek (chile paste)
½ teaspoon salt
1 cucumber, cut into matchsticks
½ cup kimchi
¼ cup roasted peanuts
1 hard-cooked egg, halved
2 slices deli ham, cut into bite-sized pieces

Nutrition Info

479.1 calories
carbohydrate: 70.1 g
cholesterol: 116 mg
fat: 13.6 g
fiber: 4.5 g
protein: 22.2 g
saturatedFat: 2.8 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 2204.3 mg
sugar: 19.1 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook spaghetti in the boiling water, stirring occasionally, until tender yet firm to the bite, about 12 minutes.

  2. Meanwhile, combine ice water, vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, and sambal oelek in a bowl. Refrigerate sauce to chill until spaghetti is cooked.

  3. Rinse cooked spaghetti in cold water until totally cooled off, drain well.

  4. Divide sauce between 2 chilled servings bowls. Add equal amounts of spaghetti, cucumber, kimchi, peanuts, egg, and ham to each bowl. Serve immediately.

Recipe Yield

2 bowls

Recipe Note

A Korean dish, popular in northern China. I ate this for lunch every day for an entire year when I lived in Jinzhou, China. The cook was certain that eating this cold dish during the cold northern winter would be bad for my stomach, but it never was! This makes a wonderfully refreshing lunch during the hot summertime.

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