Japanese Fried Noodles 日式炒面 (Yakisoba，焼きそば)
A quick, easy, and savory weekend lunch dish. A great alternate to your regular dishes.
Equipment
- 12“ frying pan
Ingredients
- 0.5 pounds sliced pork belly1
- 1 medium carrot
- 3 shiitake mushrooms2
- 1 medium onion
- 3 cabbage leaves
- 1 package Yakisoba noodles (3 servings in the bag)
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1-2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tsp ketchup
- 1-2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce3 (optional)
Instructions
- Peel the onion and carrot
- Rinse the shiitake mushrooms, onion, cabbage leaves, and carrot
- Slice the mushrooms, onion, and carrot (1/8" wide and 1.5" long pieces)
- Remove hard stem from the cabbage leaves, and tear them to small pieces (1.5"x1.5") with your hands
- Cut the pork slices to 1.5-2.0" pieces
- Rinse the noodles with cold water and drain the water
- Add sugar, soy sauce, ketchup, and Worcestershire sauce to a small bowl, and mix well
- Put the pan on stove. Then, turn heat to high and add oil
- Add pork slices, and stir at medium to high heat
- Once pork fat comes out and the pork pieces turn brown, add the onions and stir
- Once the onions become translucent, add the carrot and mushrooms slices and stir
- After about 3 mins at medium to high heat, add the noodles and the sauce and stir
- Continue to stir at medium to high heat for about 5-6 mins4
- Adjust taste with salt or additional soy sauce
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Notes
- Pork belly slices could be replaced with other proteins, such as chicken, beef, tofu, squid...
- You can use either dry or fresh mushrooms
- If you happen to have Worcestershire sauce, you can use it. Otherwise, you can use just soy sauce to make your ingredients list shorter.
- Don't cover the pan, so the steam can escape. Don't make the noodles too wet.