Noodles Made of Other Starches

Appears in
Professional Cooking: 8th Edition
Professional Cooking

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2014

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With the increased popularity of Southeast Asian and Chinese cuisines in the West, rice noodles have become familiar. Rice noodles are available as very fine, almost hairlike noodles called rice vermicelli, and as flat noodles of various widths. Rice noodles are sometimes known as rice sticks.

Rice vermicelli are often cooked by deep-frying the dry noodles, without using any water. The noodles puff up and become crisp and tender. Rice vermicelli can also be broken apart and stir-fried, as long as enough liquid is added to the stir-fry to rehydrate them.