Icy Cold Somen. Somen are the thinnest Japanese noodles. It is easy to over cook. Somen might be difficult to find for you.
Somen are usually served cold with a dipping sauce called tsuyu.
The dipping sauce is same Japanese dashi-based broth used in hot soup, but more concentrated in flavor.
Somen noodles are thin wheat noodles, as thin as vermicelli, more delicate than buckwheat.
You can Cook Icy Cold Somen using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Icy Cold Somen
- Lets Go Prepare 4 of servings Somen Noodles *OR Rice Vermicelli or Capellini (Angel Hair Pasta).
- Lets Go Prepare of Mentsuyu (Dipping Sauce) *find my recipe at https://cookpad.com/uk/recipes/6744624-mentsuyu-noodle-dipping-sauce.
- What You needis of ‘Yakumi’ (Condiments).
- Lets Go Prepare of *Note: ‘Yakumi’ is herbs and spices to add extra flavours to the dipping sauce. You can add any of the following.
- Lets Go Prepare of Spring Onion, Toasted Sesame Seeds, Grated Ginger, Shredded Nori, Wasabi, Chilli Powder, Shiso, Myoga Ginger, etc.
Twirled around chopsticks and dipped in a sauce made with soy sauce and dashi, the noodles slide down the. Here in the last throes of summer, lunch is sometimes no more than a mound of Cold Somen noodles make for a quick and easy meal during hot summer days. Somen is a very thin type of Japanese noodle made of wheat flour. It's most commonly eaten cold as a light summer meal, accompanied by dipping sauce and a number of yakumi, or toppings.
Icy Cold Somen step by step
- Cook Somen Noodles as instructed. You don’t need to add Salt to the water as Somen Noodles are salted..
- When noodles are cooked, drain and rinse well in COLD water, and place the noodles in a serving bowl with cold water and some Ice Cubes..
- Serve the noodles with the chilled ‘Mentsuyu’ dipping sauce and Yakumi..
- *Note: Fried food goes well with this noodle dish. Tempura are excellent. https://cookpad.com/uk/users/6036326?utf8=%E2%9C%93&u=tempura&commit=Search.
- Note: ‘Chilled Eggplant’ is delicious. https://cookpad.com/uk/recipes/6875911-chilled-eggplant-with-somen-noodles.
Somen (or sōmen) is a very thin noodles served cold which makes it a perfect summer dish. Noodles are served in chilled water and the dipping sauce is also chilled. It is a very simple dish but wonderful. Somen are Japanese dried vermicelli noodles that are usually eaten cold during summer. Like cold Soba (buckwheat noodle), you dip Somen in the soy sauce-based sauce (men-tsuyu) along with.