Recipe: Tasty 'Somen' & Pork Stir-Fry

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'Somen' & Pork Stir-Fry. Sōmen are usually served cold with a light flavored dipping sauce or tsuyu. The tsuyu is usually a katsuobushi-based sauce that can be flavored with Japanese bunching onion, ginger, or myoga. In the summer, sōmen chilled with ice is a popular meal to help stay cool.

'Somen' & Pork Stir-Fry 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. Boil water and add Somen to the boiling water. You can Cook 'Somen' & Pork Stir-Fry using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of 'Somen' & Pork Stir-Fry

  1. Lets Go Prepare 90 g of x 4 'Somen' Noodles.
  2. What You needis 1 tablespoon of Sesame Oil.
  3. Lets Go Prepare 200-300 g of Pork *thinly Sliced.
  4. Lets Go Prepare of Salt & White Pepper.
  5. It's 1 of small piece Ginger * sliced into fine strips.
  6. Lets Go Prepare 1 of Onion.
  7. Lets Go Prepare 4 of Eggs.
  8. What You needis of Canola Oil for cooking.
  9. It's 1/2 cup of ‘Mentsuyu’ Noodle Dipping Sauce.
  10. Lets Go Prepare of *Note: To make the sauce, mix 1/4 cup Dashi Stock (1/4 cup Water & 1/4 teaspoon Dashi Powder), 1 tablespoon Mirin, 1 tablespoon Sake (Rice Wine), 2 tablespoons Soy Sauce.
  11. What You needis of Extra Soy Sauce.
  12. Lets Go Prepare 3-4 of Spring Onion *finely chopped.

Cook for a minute and strain. Wash Somen in running water, rubbing. Get these exclusive recipes with a subscription to Yummly Pro. Somen salad is a chilled noodle dish with toppings (like fish cake, cucumbers, carrots, and many more options), and a flavorful sauce poured all over the noodles.

'Somen' & Pork Stir-Fry step by step

  1. Slice Pork very thinly and season with Salt and White Pepper. Lightly whisk Eggs in a bowl and season with Salt and White Pepper. Slice Onion and Ginger into thin strips..
  2. Cook ‘Somen’ Noodles as instructed. DO NOT add Salt into the water. Noodles need to be cooked quite firm as you will stir-fry later. After drained, sprinkle Sesame Oil to stop stick together..
  3. Heat 1 tablespoon Canola Oil in a frying pan and cook Eggs to make firm scrambled egg. Transfer to a plate..
  4. Add 1 tablespoon of Canola Oil to the hot frying pan and cook Pork. When the Pork changes colour, add Onion and Ginger and cook until soft. Add 'Mentsuyu' Sauce, then combine with cooked ‘Somen’ and the egg..
  5. Sprinkle extra Soy Sauce over if required, and some chopped Spring Onion and serve..

Just pour the sauce on top, mix, and you're ready to eat ^_^ Simple and elegant, so refreshing on a warm. The dough is stretched with the help of vegetable oil to make very thin strips and then air dried (which is why you need to rinse somen noodles after boiling). Miwa Somen by Yamamoto Another somen brand with a long history is Miwa somen. The Miwa Ward of Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture, is known as the origin of somen, and they say nearly all materials used in various somen-producing regions across Japan come from Miwa. Somen noodles in hot soup is called nyumen.