Dashi With Udon Recipe
Ingredients
1/2 chicken breast, skinned, boned and cut into 15 small julienne strips
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon sake or dry sherry
Dash sugar
2 dried forest mushrooms, softened and cut into 15 slivers
5 water chestnuts, each cut into 5 slices
1/4 pound fresh udon (thick wheat noodles)
6 cups hot water
Soy sauce to taste
5 tiny spinach leaves
5 tiny slivers of raw carrot
5 tiny strips of lemon peel
Directions
Marinate chicken strips in soy, sake and sugar 15 minutes.
Combine with mushroom slivers, water chestnut slices and 1/2 cup of the dashi.
Bring to boil and cook, covered, 10 minutes.
Remove cover and let liquid boil away.
Set aside and keep warm.Cover udon with 4 cups of the hot water, bring to boil and add rest of water.
Bring back to boil, cook 1 minute, drain and rinse with cold water.
Shake colander to remove as much water as possible.
Heat remaining 5 cups dashi, adjust seasonings with soy, and reheat with udon.
Place 3 pieces of chicken, 3 mushroom slivers and 5 slices of water chestnut into each of 5 bowls.
Ladle dashi and udon into bowls and garnish with spinach, carrot and lemon peel.
Combine with mushroom slivers, water chestnut slices and 1/2 cup of the dashi.
Bring to boil and cook, covered, 10 minutes.
Remove cover and let liquid boil away.
Set aside and keep warm.Cover udon with 4 cups of the hot water, bring to boil and add rest of water.
Bring back to boil, cook 1 minute, drain and rinse with cold water.
Shake colander to remove as much water as possible.
Heat remaining 5 cups dashi, adjust seasonings with soy, and reheat with udon.
Place 3 pieces of chicken, 3 mushroom slivers and 5 slices of water chestnut into each of 5 bowls.
Ladle dashi and udon into bowls and garnish with spinach, carrot and lemon peel.
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