Kitsune Udon きつねうどん
Juicy and plump, sweet soy sauce flavored deep-fried tofu on top of Kitsune Udon. Recipe with step by step photos and instructional video.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 Abraage deep fried tofu (*1 )
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 Udon (*2)
- 8 cups water
- 2 cups Dashi stock (*3)
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp mirin
- 4 slices Naruto fish cake
- 1 tbsp chopped scallions
- pinch of Shichimi togarashi ((optional))
Instructions
- 1
Place deep fried tofu on a sieve in a sink and pour boiling hot water over the deep fried tofu.
- 2
After it cools down to the temperature that you can touch, squeeze out excess moisture with your hands.
- 3
Cut them in half diagonally.
- 4
Place 3/4 cup of water, soy sauce and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat.
- 5
Bring it to boil and add prepared deep fried tofu.
- 6
Turn the heat down to low and simmer for 15 minutes.
- 7
Turn the heat off and set it aside. Leave deep fried tofu in the sauce.
- 8
Start 8 cups of water in a large pot to boil over high heat.
- 9
While the water comes to the boil, start to prepare the soup in a saucepan.
- 10
Add dashi, soy sauce and mirin in a sauce pan and bring it to simmer. Turn the heat off and set aside.
- 11
When the water boils, add frozen udon noodles. Cook Udon noodles for 1 minute and drain the cooking water.
- 12
Serve the udon noodle into a noodle bowl, top with inari age (seasoned deep-fried tofu) and naruto.
- 13
Garnish with chopped scallions to serve. Sprinkle shichimi togarashi as you like.