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Neil Perry: Cat’s ear noodles with peppers and chilli sauce

Neil Perry: Cat’s ear noodles with peppers and chilli sauce

This simple noodle dish has been upgraded with what is essentially a gnocchi dough to add silkiness. The spoonful of hot bean sauce enlivens the taste.

Serves 4

Cooking Time Prep time 15 mins, cook 35 mins



50 ml   peanut oil
180 gm   pork shoulder, trimmed of fat and sinew, thinly sliced across the grain
1 tbsp   chilli bean sauce (Pun Chun brand)
¼ each   red and green capsicum, diced
2   garlic cloves, crushed in a mortar and pestle
10 ml   Shaoxing wine
50 ml   chicken stock
10 ml   light soy sauce
5 ml each   sesame oil and chilli oil
Cat’s ear noodles
140 gm   (about 1 small) desiree potato, scrubbed
80 gm   plain flour


1 For cat’s ear noodles, steam potato until very tender (20-25 minutes), then when cool enough to handle, peel. Mash until smooth, add flour, mix to a soft dough, then turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Using a pasta machine with rollers at widest setting, feed dough through rollers, folding and reducing settings notch by notch until dough is 2mm thick, then cut into 1cm x 4cm lengths. Blanch in boiling salted water until glossy (30 seconds-1 minute), drain and refresh. Drain again, drizzle with a little peanut oil, stir to coat and set aside.
2 Heat a wok over high heat until smoking, add peanut oil, then pork, and stir-fry until pork starts to brown (3-5 minutes). Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside. Add chilli bean sauce to wok, stir-fry until fragrant (30 seconds-1 minute), add capsicum and garlic and toss for 30 seconds. Deglaze with Shaoxing wine, add chicken stock, soy sauce and oils and bring quickly to the boil. Add noodles and warm through, add reserved pork and simmer until sauce is reduced to a glaze (1-2 minutes). Serve immediately.


RECIPE Neil Perry and Andy Evans PHOTOGRAPHY Chris Chen STYLING Emma Knowles


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