DIY – An’s “famous” garlic noodles

Craving garlic noodles and some crab, the wifey and I decided to try AnQi (Crustacean / Thanh Long) last night at Bloomingdales in South Coast Plaza.  We shared an appetizer (salmon tartar), she had the lobster with An’s famous garlic noodles and I had the brick chicken (dry) with a side of jasmine rice (undercooked + sent back twice).  You can be sure we left pretty disappointed.  The restaurant was lovely, the service was good but the food was lacking.. not what I remember from the original two locations in SF.  I couldn’t find anyway to justify the amount of money I had just spent.  So instead of making a big deal out of it at the restaurant, I figured I’d just exploit one of their “secret” recipes.  Here you go dad, sis..

An’s “Famous” Garlic Noodles

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp, unsalted butter
• 1 tbsp +1 tsp finely minced garlic (and i mean fine)
• 2 tsp, kraft parmesan cheese (You know that generic stuff mom used to put on your spaghetti when you were a kid? Yeah, that’s it.)
• 3 tsp, thai fish sauce
• 1 tsp, light brown sugar
• 6 oz, pasta (spaghetti works)

Method:

• Reheat your noodles in a pot of simmering water
• Melt butter in a saute pan over medium heat
• Add garlic, saute until translucent
• Add brown sugar and fish sauce, mix to incorporate
• Add noodles to pan
• Stir in parmesan cheese

*Please note, depending on how much pasta you use, you may need to adjust the amount of garlic, fish sauce and parmesan cheese you use.  Also, I used store bought fettucini in the pics below and they turned out great!

mise en place

yummmmmm…

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~ by chefxyz on December 28, 2009.