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Dan Dan Pheasant Noodles

My morning routine usually involves a hot cup of coffee and me trying to clear the sleep out of my eyes enough to be able to read the morning news. On one particular morning, I was drinking my coffee and scrolling through the news on my phone when I saw a recipe for Dan-Dan Noodles. I'm not really a big Asian food, but when I saw the picture I knew immediately that I wanted to make something similar to it. I spent the rest of my day trying to figure out how I could do this with the ingredients I had at home. This version isn't going to be authentic, I'm not using any pork or Sichuan peppers, but it still turned out pretty good.

I already had some ground pheasant in the freezer that I was looking for an excuse to use. If you don't have any, you can run some Pheasant Breast through a meat grinder, but doing so is going to add a considerable amount of cleanup time. A shortcut might be using ground chicken or turkey. I also had several containers of Pheasant stock prepared and stored in the freezer. Prepping for this meal basically meant letting these two ingredients defrost on the counter. If you don't have Pheasant stock prepared and don't want to spend hours making it, you can use something like a Pho Broth or Chicken Stock. Everything else I needed for the recipe, I pretty much already had on hand.

Not everything I try to make ends up on Gundog Central and there a few recipes I posted that I'd already like to modify and try again. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed every meal, I wouldn't have posted it otherwise, but I think I could improve a few of them a little more. I do have my favorites ... this recipe right here is one of them. We've actually made this three times since and there are never any leftovers.

Ingredients

Heat Infused Seasame Oil

Dan Dan Sauce

Dan Dan Noodles

Instructions

Heat Infused Sesame Oil

Step #1 Add Sesame Oil to saucepan and set the heat on medium.

Step #2 While Sesame Oil is heating up, chopped your garlic into thin strips.

Step #3 Added sliced Garlic, Crushed Red Pepper and Chinese Five Spice to Sesame Oil.

Step #4 Add in white sesame seeds.

Step #5 Stir all the ingredients together and allow to reach a boil.

Step #6 Turn off heat and drain mixture into a small bowl. This will make more then you need for this recipe. Save it, Store it, because you'll want to make this recipe again.

Dan-Dan Sauce

Step #1 Combine Soy Sauce, Hoisin Sauce, Rice Wine Vinegar, Honey, Mirin, Tahini and Chinese Five Spice, in a small bowl, using a whisk to combine

Dan Dan Noodles

Step #1 Prepare your ingredients for this dish by chopping Spinach

Step #2 Chopping Green Onions

Step #3 Chop the mushrooms

Step #4 And dicing Shallot

Step #5 Add 3 tbsp of the hot sesame oil to a skillet and set heat to medium high. Add Ground Pheasant

Step #6 Add a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Brown meat for 5 to 7 minutes.

Step #7 Add mushrooms and shallot and cook an additional 5 minutes

Step #8 Cooking until mushrooms are soft, or for even more flavor, cook until mushrooms start to brown.

Step #9 Add 3/4 cup of Dan-Dan Sauce mixture, stirring to combine

Step #10 And cook another 3-5 minutes

Step #11 Add 2 tbsp season sesame oil, turn off heat and side aside.

Step #12 Bring 8-12 cups of water to a boil in large stock pot. Add 2 handfuls of salt to the water. When boiling, add noodles and cook 4 to 6 minutes.

Step #13 While noodles are cooking, add pheasant stock to another sauce pot. Set heat to medium and allow to warm

Step #14 Add the rest of soy sauce mixture and spinach to sauce pot. Allow to reach a simmer then turn off heat

Step #15 Drain noodles and add to each serving bowl.

Step #16 Add a few spoonfuls of seasoned Pheasant broth to each serving bowl, enough to nearly submerge the noodles. Spoon in a few spoonfuls of Pheasant meat mixture. Sprinkle on Green Onions. Sprinkle with salt and pepper

Step #17 Hope you enjoy as much as we did.

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Dan Dan Pheasant Noodles

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Prep Time: 15 min - Cook Time: 30 min

Ingredients

Heat Infused Seasame Oil

3 clove(s) Garlic

1/2 cup(s) Seasame Oil

1 tbsp Crushed Red Pepper

1/4 tbsp White Sesame Seeds

1/4 tbsp Chinese Five Spice

Dan Dan Sauce

1/2 cup(s) Soy Sauce

1/4 cup(s) Hoisin Sauce

2 tbsp Rice Wine Vinegar

4 tbsp Tahini ( or 2 tbsp of peanut butter )

1 tbsp Honey

1 tbsp Mirin

1/4 tbsp Chinese Five Spice

Dan Dan Noodles

14 oz Thai Rice Noodles

8 cup(s) Pheasant Stock

2.5 oz Baby Spinach

8 oz Baby Bella or White Mushrooms, chopped

1 lbs Ground Pheasant meat

6 Green Onions, white and light green parts chopped

1 Small Shallots, Diced

Black Pepper

Salt

Instructions

Heat Infused Sesame Oil

Step #1 - Add Sesame Oil to saucepan and set the heat on medium.

Step #2 - While Sesame Oil is heating up, chopped your garlic into thin strips.

Step #3 - Added sliced Garlic, Crushed Red Pepper and Chinese Five Spice to Sesame Oil.

Step #4 - Add in white sesame seeds.

Step #5 - Stir all the ingredients together and allow to reach a boil.

Step #6 - Turn off heat and drain mixture into a small bowl. This will make more then you need for this recipe. Save it, Store it, because you'll want to make this recipe again.

Dan-Dan Sauce

Step #1 - Combine Soy Sauce, Hoisin Sauce, Rice Wine Vinegar, Honey, Mirin, Tahini and Chinese Five Spice, in a small bowl, using a whisk to combine

Dan Dan Noodles

Step #1 - Prepare your ingredients for this dish by chopping Spinach

Step #2 - Chopping Green Onions

Step #3 - Chop the mushrooms

Step #4 - And dicing Shallot

Step #5 - Add 3 tbsp of the hot sesame oil to a skillet and set heat to medium high. Add Ground Pheasant

Step #6 - Add a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Brown meat for 5 to 7 minutes.

Step #7 - Add mushrooms and shallot and cook an additional 5 minutes

Step #8 - Cooking until mushrooms are soft, or for even more flavor, cook until mushrooms start to brown.

Step #9 - Add 3/4 cup of Dan-Dan Sauce mixture, stirring to combine

Step #10 - And cook another 3-5 minutes

Step #11 - Add 2 tbsp season sesame oil, turn off heat and side aside.

Step #12 - Bring 8-12 cups of water to a boil in large stock pot. Add 2 handfuls of salt to the water. When boiling, add noodles and cook 4 to 6 minutes.

Step #13 - While noodles are cooking, add pheasant stock to another sauce pot. Set heat to medium and allow to warm

Step #14 - Add the rest of soy sauce mixture and spinach to sauce pot. Allow to reach a simmer then turn off heat

Step #15 - Drain noodles and add to each serving bowl.

Step #16 - Add a few spoonfuls of seasoned Pheasant broth to each serving bowl, enough to nearly submerge the noodles. Spoon in a few spoonfuls of Pheasant meat mixture. Sprinkle on Green Onions. Sprinkle with salt and pepper

Step #17 - Hope you enjoy as much as we did.

About the Author

Jeff Davis

You may think cooking and recipes don’t have much to do with a website dedicated to hunting dogs ... but really, why do we hunt? Sure, we enjoy watching our dogs work in the field and being outdoors, but ultimately, hunting is about survival and feeding our families. We might as well try to do it well. I'm not a chef and definitely no food authority ... but I do like to eat and enjoy cooking. After searching for people willing to share their recipes on Gundog Central, without much success, I decided to try to do a few on my own, with my wife Tami's help. The recipes I share here are things I like to eat and have made here at home. I've tried to include step-by-step instructions with each meal describing exactly how I did it, but my method may not be best, if you decide to try a recipe posted here, please use whatever technique you think works best, I'm simply sharing how I did it. You'll see a lot of recipes where I've tried to make things from starch, when I could have just used store bought ingredients, simply because I wanted to learn how something was done. My goal is to continually update these recipes as I learn new things and techniques. These are my attempts at creating good, home cooked food, that I would like to eat! If I'm sharing it here, my family and I enjoyed it and I believe you will too.