Recipes
Udon noodles are the best.
They're so fun to eat and their thickness really helps to hold onto all that yummy sauce. They also make for the easiest dinners, and are a great way of using up whatever veggies you have in the fridge.
This stir fry was easy to make. We used OKAZU, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, brown sugar, garlic and ginger for the stir fry sauce and added some bok choy and mushrooms to the noodles. So quick and tasty!
Full recipe below.
(Lentil, Kale, Quinoa, Black Bean, Sakekasu Miso)
This recipe was a happy accident. I wanted to make a Lentil, Kale, Quinoa stew, which I made recently and loved, but I didn’t have the chopped tomatoes that I thought I had. For the past two months I have been kind of challenging myself to use up food from the pantry where there are large sacks of rye kernel, lentils, quinoa, spices, buckwheat flour, etc. This stuff is mostly left over from when we closed the Abokichi sandwich shop and café. We like the miso soup version of this recipe even better than the original tomato. I would happily make this over and over again. This is not a Japanese dish and yet the miso flavour works so well.
Feel like having some hot, tasty noodle soup? This tempura udon soup is a Japanese favourite. The soft noodles combined with the crispiness of the tempura and the immensely flavourful broth will definitely leave you wanting more! This dish is absolutely comforting and just perfect for those cold, rainy days.