Stir-fried noodles for breakfast? When you’re in Asia, that’s not so surprising. Noodles are served for breakfast in many ways — with soup, as a stir-fried dish, with meat, with seafood or even totally vegetarian.
But let’s talk about rice noodles, the most common noodles used in Asian cooking. There seems to be a disagreement about the nutritional value of rice noodles. Some say it has little nutritional value, is mostly starch with little dietary fiber, and mung bean noodles or vermicelli, sotanghon as we call it and the kind used in Korean japchae, is not much better.
Another site, however, practically declares rice noodles as the ultimate health food because it contains zero saturated fats, zero cholesterol and zero sugar.
If there is one thing that most people agree on, however, it’s the fact that rice noodles are gluten-free.
Get the Korean japchae recipe in Pinoy Cook.
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