Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, somen noodles with lots of vegetables and leek sauce. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Somen Noodles with Lots of Vegetables and Leek Sauce is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Somen Noodles with Lots of Vegetables and Leek Sauce is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have somen noodles with lots of vegetables and leek sauce using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Somen Noodles with Lots of Vegetables and Leek Sauce:
- Prepare 80 to 100 grams Somen noodles
- Make ready 1/2 Cucumber
- Prepare 1 the same amount as the cucumber Carrot
- Get 1 the same amount as the cucumber Mizuna greens
- Make ready 1 the same amount as the cucumber Cabbage
- Prepare 1 Myoga ginger
- Get 1 Daikon radish sprouts
- Prepare 3 stick Imitation crab sticks
- Prepare 2 tbsp ● Japanese leek (finely chopped)
- Prepare 1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons ● Mentsuyu or soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp ● Sesame oil
- Make ready 1 Ra-yu, chunky ra-yu, vinegar
Instructions to make Somen Noodles with Lots of Vegetables and Leek Sauce:
- Finely julienne or slice the vegetables. Shred the crab sticks.
- Cook the somen noodles following the package instructions, drain and rinse under cold running water until any stickiness is gone. Drain well and sprinkle with a little sesame oil (not included in the ingredient list).
- Put the mentsuyu sauce or soy sauce in a heatproof container. Heat the 1 tablespoon of sesame oil in a frying pan and stir fry the leek. Add this to the heatproof container and mix to make the leek sauce.
- Put the somen noodles on a serving plate. Arrange the vegetables and crab stick on top, and pour on the leek sauce. Add some ra-yu, vinegar, chunky "eating ra-yu" etc. to taste and enjoy.
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