Niku Udon
Udon Noodles topped with stir fried seasoned beef and onions.
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
Niku Ingredients
- 1/4 cup sake
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1 pound sukiyaki beef or thinly sliced flank steak, ribeye
- 1/4 yellow onion, thinly sliced optional
Soup
- 6 cups udon tsuyu*
- 4 bricks fresh or frozen udon noodles can substitute dried Sanuki Udon
- 1-2 green onion thinly sliced
- Shichimi togarashi
Udon Tsuyu
- 6 cups dashi
- 1/2 cup mirin
- 1/2 cup Usukuchi soy sauce light soy sauce
- 1/2 - 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
Instructions
Tsuyu
- Prepare broth and keep warm.
Beef
- Combine sake, sugar and soy sauce in a bowl and stir well. Add beef and mix together, coating meat well. Marinade beef for 10 minutes.
- Preheat dry non-stick skillet or well seasoned wok/iron skillet. If including onion, saute onion slices just until soft before adding the beef. Add beef and marinade to skillet. Spread beef in skillet to cook evenly. Cook over high heat until beef has lost its pinkness and most of liquid has evaporated, approximately 5 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
Udon Noodles
- Bring large pot of water to a boil. Add each packet of noodles. gently spread noodles out. When water comes back to a boil, the noodles are done. Drain well and divide among bowls.
- Pour hot broth over noodles. Divide beef among bowls, garnish with green onions and shichimi togarashi. Serve immediately.