Udon Recipe

Udon - Japanese Noodles

Udon are thick Japanese noodles. There are several ways to prepare Udon. This recipe shows three of them:

Kitsune Udon: Fox Udon
Tanuki Udon: Japanese racoon Udon
Tsukimi Udon: "Viewing moon" Udon (the yolk of an egg represents the moon)

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Ingredients:

• Udon*
• Noodle soup*: e.g. Ninben Tsuyu no moto
• Kitsune Udon:
  • Naruto*: Fish sausage with a pink pattern when cut
  • Atsuage*: baked tofu. You can use the triangular atsuage bags that are used for Inari Sushi; but put them first in boiling water for a moment to reduce their strong taste a little bit.
    
  • Leek or green onion
• Tanuki Udon:
  • Naruto*
  • Tenkatsu: crispy pieces that are left when deep frying tenpura. If not available, you can cut some leek, mix it with tenpura batter and deep fry it.
  • Leek or green onion
• Tsukimi Udon:
  • One egg per person
  • Naruto*
  • Leek or green onion

* This ingredient may not be available in Western supermarkets, but you should be able to find it in Japanese grocery stores that exist in most large European and American cities.

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Preparation:

Noodles

1. Boil Udon and boil some water in another pan (about 400ml per person, depends on the size of the bowl in which you will serve the noudles).

2. Cut naruto (about 7mm thin) and leek/green onion.

3. Put Udon into sieve and rinse it with hot water.
4. Add noudle sauce into prepared hot water. Consult the bottle label about the proportion.With "Ninben Tsuyu no moto" sauce the proportion sauce-water is 1:8.
5. Put the hot Sauce into a bowl and add Udon into it. (Use one bowl per person)

Kitsune Udon

6. Decorate Udon with atsuage, cut leek and naruto.

Tanuki Udon

7. Put the deep fried pieces (Rests of Tenpura deep frying), naruto and cut leek onto the noudles.

Tsukimi Udon

8. Put the york, cut leek and naruto onto the noudles.

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Serving and eating:

Noodle eating directions: Keep the distance between your mouth and the bowl quite small, and lead the noodles with the chopsticks step by step into your mouth producing sipping noises.

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General information:

Noodles (Soba, Udon, and Ramen) are very popular in Japan. Noodle restaurants can be found everywhere.

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This recipe is originally published by about.com in this link.

Gyuudon Japanese Video Recipe

Today we present a video version of the gyuudon (beef with rice) recipe. It's with the program "Cooking with dog", made by japanese hosts and available through the youtube channel cookingwithdog

Hope you enjoy it, as it is very refreshing to have the explanations done so well!!

Mashed tofu salad recipe (Shiraae Recipe)

Shiraae is a mashed tofu salad. It can be cooked with various vegetables.

Ingredients:

• 1 block momendofu (cotton tofu)
• 1/4 lb carrots
• 4 shiitake mushroom
• A bunch of spinach
• 3 tbsps sugar
• 1 tbsp roasted sesame
• 2 tbsps soysauce

Preparation:

Boil a block of tofu and cool. Wrap the tofu with paper towels and place a cutting board on top of it to drain the moisture. Leave it for 30 minutes. Cut the carrot and shiitake mushrooms into thin strips. Boil the carrot and shiitake mushroom strips for a few minutes and drain. Boil spinach and drain. Cut the boiled spinach into bite size pieces. Grind roasted sesame seeds and mix with soy sauce and sugar. Add drained tofu and stir well to make tofu dressing. Mix vegetables and mushrooms with the tofu dressing. Makes 4 servings

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This recipe is originally published by about.com in this link.