These easy noodles from Kenji López-Alt are loaded with 20 cloves’ worth of garlicky flavor.
New York Times Cooking’s top recipe of 2022, these San Francisco-Style Vietnamese American Garlic Noodles marry ease and flavor by infusing dry spaghetti with loads of umami from fish sauce, oyster sauce and — of course — garlic. Twenty cloves, in fact.
Recipe: San Francisco-Style Vietnamese American Garlic Noodles
J. Kenji López-Alt based this recipe on a dish created and served by Helene An at Thanh Long restaurant in San Francisco and included it in his cookbook, “The Wok.” Watch him make it in the video below.
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