Yakiudon is Japanese stir fry udon noodles. Simple udon noodles dish with plenty of vegetables. It is an easy udon recipe that you can taste the flavor of vegetables with simple seasoning.
Yakiudon is a menu that everybody from children to adult enjoy eating. Even if children doesn't like vegetables so much, they would be happy to eat with udon noodles. And super easy to make so it would be perfect lunch menu for a busy weekend.
You can use any kind of udon, dry, raw, or frozen. I happened to have a dry flat udon noodles in my pantry so i will use this. For this particular udon, boiling time is 5 minutes.
How To Make Yakiudon
Ingredients are mizuna, onions, green peppers, carrots and canned tuna. You can also use some leftover vegetables in the refrigerator. Something like cabbage, Chinese cabbage, bean sprouts, paprika, they are good with udon noodles. If your child doesn't like green peppers, try using other green vegetables such like spinach.
Mizuna is green vegetables which is often used for salad. I happen to have it at home so i use it in the recipe but you can skip it or use scallion instead.
Let's cut vegetables. Chop the vegetables into thin pieces so that they can be easily mixed well with long udon noodles. While you are cutting the vegetables, boil water in a pot and toss udon noodles.
Once udon is boiled, drain the water then wash it with running water to remove slimy texture on the noodles.
Add sesame oil in a frying pan and fry vegetables in the order of onions, green peppers, carrots. And add canned tuna, salt and water, cover and steam them. By steaming with salt, tasty umami and sweetness of vegetables bring out.
Cook about 5-6 minutes with the lid on then vegetables will get soften. Season with mirin and soy sauce, add udon and fry a little and mix well. Check the taste, if it is good then add bonito and mizuna, and then it's ready to eat.
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Yakiudon
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 10
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Noodles
- Cuisine: Japanese
Description
Japanese stir fry udon noodles. Simple udon noodles dish with plenty of vegetables. It is an easy udon recipe that you can taste the flavor of vegetables with simple seasoning.
Ingredients
- 250g Udon Noodles
- 1 bundle Mizuna
- 2 Green Peppers
- ½ Carrot
- ½ Onion
- 2 Canned Tuna
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- ¼ cup Water
- ½ tablespoon Mirin
- ½ tablespoon Soy Sauce
- 1 tablespoon Sesame Oil
- Bonito as much as you like
Instructions
- Cut mizuna into bite size, chop green peppers, carrot, and onion into thin slices
- Boil water in a pot and boil udon noodles according to the package
- Add sesame oil in a frying pan and fry vegetables in the order of onions, green peppers, carrots
- Add canned tuna, salt and water, cover and steam them for 5-6 minutes until vegetables get soften
- Once udon is boiled, drain the water then wash it with running water to remove slimy texture on the noodles
- Open the lid of frying pan, season with mirin and soy sauce, add udon and fry
- Check the taste, then add bonito and mizuna, and mix well
Notes
- Dry or frozen or raw, you can use any type of udon noodles
- You can add as much bonito as you like, or you can skip it
- Mizuna is added at the end but you can also use scallion instead of mizuna, or other green vegetables for garnish
Keywords: Yakiudon, udon noodles
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