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[Queen God]

hey - this is my noodle recipe thread!

this thread is still very very new! so please forgive me for the wait, while i add some recipes.
please refrain from adding your own recipes at this time - this thread is still very much under construction.

we heart noodles

if you don't recognize the names of some of the ingredients, thats what your local japanese/chinese grocery is for as well as google/wiki search

 

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RECIPES

kitsune udon: pg.1

 

[Queen God]

Kitsune Udon

kitsune means fox - which, like aburage are thought to have supernatural powers.

Ingredients: (for 4 servings)

4 packs of udon noodles
6 cups of ichiban-dashi
1 teaspoon sugar
1 Tablespoon mirin
1/2 cup usukuchi (lightly flavored ) soy sauce

Kitsune (cooked seperate)
4 pieces of aburage, niban-dashi
3 Tablespoons sugar
4 Tablespoons usukuchi soy sauce)

1 green onion.

Preparation:

Noodle's soup
Heat up ichban-dashi - add sugar, mirin, soysauce.
Turn off gas before it comes to a boil.

Cooking aburage
Cut in half
To remove oil, place aburage in scalding water.
In a different pot add sugar to niban-dashi - add aburage.
After flavor seeps in, add soysauce and heat up for 3-4 minutes.
Turn off gas. Allow flavor to seep in further.

Yakumi (Topping)
Thinly slice green onion. Soak in water, then dry.

How to Make:

Boil udon and drain.
With partially cooked udon boil in hot water to heat up.
With dry udon add noodles slowly to boiling water. Bring to boil again and add 1 cup water. Boil 10-15 minutes. Add 1/2 water, bring to a boil again. Drain noodles.
Save leftover noodle water to warm serving bowls.
Put noddles in empty warmed bowls. Add aburage (i per bowl) then heated up soup (tsuyu)
Garnish with sliced green onion.

To remove oil, place aburage in scalding water
Drain abrage
Squeeze lightly
In a different pot add sugar to niban-dashi -Add aburage