Hello all! It's been a while. My friend recently said they wanted to try my spicy asian noodles again, so I told them I'd try and make it extra spicy just for them.
I already use salt, pepper, garlic, cajun, paprika, onion powder, chilli powder, red chilli flakes, dried chillis, and cayenne pepper in my noodles.
Now, I MIGHT have some Jalepeno in the fridge. Not totally sure though.
So, what ingredients do you think I should add to make it spicier? Keep in mind that I can't really go to the store and buy any peppers and such.
Thanks a bunch!
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If you can't really go to the store to get any additional ingredients, then I'm not sure what you'd expect me (or anyone else) to recommend. Don't use anything like Tabasco, because then everything will taste like it. Your best option out of the ingredients you have is to take some of your chili flakes, or the whole dried chilies, and grind them in a spice grinder then add that to taste; shouldn't muddy the flavor but the ground up seeds will add heat. If you don't have a spice grinder, you can chop it on a cutting board but do it slowly or they'll fly everywhere.
Jalapenos won't help you much, they're not very high on the Scoville scale. But I have on occasion gotten some very hot jalapenos and they won't hurt it any so might as well go for it if you have them. In general, punishing a pepper while it's growing but also giving it enough nitrogen through its vegetative growth early in the season can lead to a much hotter pepper. So you never really know about a pepper you buy on a pig in a poke in the supermarket until you bite in to it.
Paprika will do nothing for the heat. Cajun seasoning, I shouldn't have to explain why that doesn't belong in an Asian dish. Garlic is typically omitted in most Chinese cooking from what I recall, unless it's specifically called for in certain dishes and then it's usually accompanied by ginger. Onion powder, maybe, but don't overdo it. Of course if it's what you have on hand then it's what you have on hand. In my limited experience with Asian cuisine, it's either very simplistic or hellishly complicated. Ginger and soy instantly makes everything have a more "Asian" feel. I'm a garlic person myself, I put it in most everything, so when I was studying Chinese cooking what must have been ten years ago I was a little booty hurt that garlic was somewhat sparsely used.
I have no idea if anything I just said was helpful. Let me know how it goes.
I already use salt, pepper, garlic, cajun, paprika, onion powder, chilli powder, red chilli flakes, dried chillis, and cayenne pepper in my noodles.
Now, I MIGHT have some Jalepeno in the fridge. Not totally sure though.
So, what ingredients do you think I should add to make it spicier? Keep in mind that I can't really go to the store and buy any peppers and such.
Thanks a bunch!
Jalapenos won't help you much, they're not very high on the Scoville scale. But I have on occasion gotten some very hot jalapenos and they won't hurt it any so might as well go for it if you have them. In general, punishing a pepper while it's growing but also giving it enough nitrogen through its vegetative growth early in the season can lead to a much hotter pepper. So you never really know about a pepper you buy on a pig in a poke in the supermarket until you bite in to it.
Paprika will do nothing for the heat. Cajun seasoning, I shouldn't have to explain why that doesn't belong in an Asian dish. Garlic is typically omitted in most Chinese cooking from what I recall, unless it's specifically called for in certain dishes and then it's usually accompanied by ginger. Onion powder, maybe, but don't overdo it. Of course if it's what you have on hand then it's what you have on hand. In my limited experience with Asian cuisine, it's either very simplistic or hellishly complicated. Ginger and soy instantly makes everything have a more "Asian" feel. I'm a garlic person myself, I put it in most everything, so when I was studying Chinese cooking what must have been ten years ago I was a little booty hurt that garlic was somewhat sparsely used.
I have no idea if anything I just said was helpful. Let me know how it goes.