Garlic Noodles | Kenji's Cooking Show

Summary by Krater

Kenji López-Alt demonstrates how to make San Francisco-style garlic noodles using spaghetti, butter, garlic paste, light soy sauce, fish sauce, oyster sauce, grated Pecorino Romano cheese, scallions, and tarako.

From the video

Answers: How do you make San Francisco style garlic noodles?

• Garlic noodles recipe
• San Francisco food
• Pasta cooking techniques
• Garlic preparation
• Umami sauces for pasta

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound spaghetti
• about a dozen cloves garlic
• salt
• 1 1/2 tablespoons butter
• a couple teaspoons light soy sauce
• a few big squirts fish sauce
• oyster sauce
• Pecorino Romano cheese
• scallion
• tarako

What it concludes

• Pre-peeled garlic has less actual garlic flavor because the blanching process deactivates some of the allicin-forming compounds.
• Coarse salt works faster and better for breaking down garlic in a mortar and pestle compared to fine powdered salt.
• Soy sauce, fish sauce, and oyster sauce should not be salted in the pasta water because they already contribute enough saltiness.
• Pasta cooked in a skillet concentrates starchiness, which helps create a creamier sauce when emulsified with butter and other ingredients.