Zhajiang Noodles originated in Shandong province at first, and then entered different places with the development, and the method of making Zhajiang Noodles in each place is also different. For example, some places like to use meat sauce, and some places like to use vegetarian sauce. Different sauces have different tastes, and the taste of fried sauce is also different. The most basic thing in Zhajiang Noodles is noodles, which will include sauces and side dishes in Zhajiang Noodles. Zhajiang Noodles in Guangzhou is a bowl of noodles with some side dishes, and the preferences of sauces are also different. Most of them are homemade ketchup, plus Chili oil, which tastes sour and spicy.
The most outstanding taste in Zhajiang Noodles is sauce. You can prepare fresh pork belly, wash it, cut it into diced meat with uniform size, and then soak it in warm water to remove the fishy smell of pork belly. After that, put a little lard in the pot, and let the pork belly fry in the pot. After the pork belly slightly changes color, add cooking wine, soy sauce ginger, continue to stir fry, and pour in sweet noodle sauce and sugar sauce and a little water for boiling. At this time, you must simmer slowly with a small fire, and keep stirring in one direction with a spoon to avoid a paste pot. Wait until the sauce and pork belly are completely mixed together. Then the noodles are cooked and poured out, put in cold water for a while, put into a bowl, add the boiled sauce and some ingredients, and you can eat.
The noodles in Zhajiang Noodles are actually very important, because many noodles will taste weak and taste bad if they are not cooked well. Knead the dough first, wake up for a while, then roll the dough into a cake and cut it into strips. Most restaurants in Beijing roll the noodles by hand, so that the noodles will taste more gluten. The prepared Zhajiang Noodles will be more delicious and have a good taste if it can be matched with shredded cucumber, mung bean sprouts, shredded carrot and other vegetarian dishes in the later period.
Finally, when eating Zhajiang Noodles, you can put more vegetables, because the salt in the fried sauce is relatively large, which is likely to lead to too single nutrition. You can mix with a variety of vegetables, and the nutrition will be more abundant.