Reddit mentions: The best udon noodles

Here is a recipe to the best thing I've personally created.

Sauce

• Chili garlic sauce (careful, this is spicy. If you over do it, add more sugar/soy, can easily happen if you reduce too much)
  
• Tamari (fancy soy sauce with less salt and more flavor)
  
• rice wine vinger (couple splashes)
  
• Seaseme seed soil, about 1tbsp, huge flavor
  
• fresh minced up garlic and ginger.
  
• 1-2 tbsp of brown sugar to taste, can get too sweet quickly so make sure to be tasting after adding.
  
  Mix that all up in a bowl with a whisk and simmer on low heat in a pan.
  
  Meat
  
  I've done this with chicken and beef, but beef came out my favorite
  
  
• 1 package of stir fry beef, or fajita beef. any small cut beef would work, and cheap beef would work well too from how its being prepared.
  
  To cook, refrigerate the meat so its cold, then take it out and put it in a gallon ziplock bag. In the bag with the meat add corn starch (enough so everything is throughly coated) and black pepper. Toss the beef up so its nice and coated.
  
  Then, pour the beef and powder into a spagetti strainer to knock off all the excess corn startch. You are not making a crush or batter, just coat it.
  
  Next, heat up a pan of vegetable oil. Once its hot where when you drip a drop of water and it starts bubbling, toss the meat in. Let it fry for about 2-3min, when you are stiring it around with your spoon or whatever, you will feel it start to harder. As soon as it "feels" crispy, take it out. (dont worry, it will soften)
  
  Let this dry on a cooling rack or paper towels.
  
  Starch
  
  I love the Asian noodles, you can get them in a package. To cook, use a very large pan/wok or electric skillet thats going to be where you combine everything in. Heat up the pan, put some sesame seed oil in the pan, then the noodles. Toss them around until they heat up and remove. Set aside the noodles. (cook maybe 2-3min)
  
  Rice would also work here, although cooking instructions for rice should be followed.
  
  Veggies
  
  Easiest option is to buy a bag of stir fry mix. I usually combine some stir fry veggies with fresh garlic and a fresh quartered onion. (i like big chunks of onion for this, but cut to the size you prefer).
  
  The stir fry veggies are generally broccoli, carrots, water chestnuts, red bell peppers and peas.
  
  To cook: heat up a pan, use a big one. If you dont have a large pan an electric skillet WITH SIDES will work. This has to be big enough to fit all of the veggies and meat.
  
  After the pan is heated up, add a splash of vegetable oil and some sesame seed soil to the pan. Toss in all of the veggies and keep them moving while they heat up. After they look heated up, add some of the sauce you made earlier. Toss them around so they are coated but not dripping or soggy.
  
  The veggie part you dont want to take longer then 5-8min so you have crunchy veggies at the end.
  
  The Finish
  
  Finally, the fun part. First, add your noodles back to the pan, then add some of your sauce, and toss them around so they are coated. Then add your veggies and beef to the pan. Toss this around until everything looks distributed. Now, add more of your sauce to taste, toss and enjoy!
  
  IDK what you'd call it, but we call it spicy stir fry beef with noodles lol
  
  A few tips... dont add too many veggies where you "dilute" the amount of noodles you have. Dont over cook the veggies or they get too soft. Chili-garlic sauce is SPICY. Sesame seed oil is VERY STRONG. Use those two in moderation but for huge flavor!
  
  Also, please let me know if you try this i'd love to know what other people thought of it.

sorry to hear you dont live near any asian markets. but you can just type "udon" into amazon. you should get the same variety of udon as most asian markets. i personally would try every brand and see which one you like. because everyone likes their udon differently, you may be like me who likes a much thicker udon (http://www.amazon.com/Myojo-Japanese-Style-Noodles-Jumbo/dp/B002LC9THU/ref=sr_1_13?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1407170887&sr=1-13&keywords=udon)
or maybe you like the thinner kind (http://www.amazon.com/Hime-Dried-Udon-Noodles-28-2-Ounce/dp/B007W0D0HQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1407171003&sr=1-1&keywords=udon)
its up to you! happy eatting

Yeah they are thinner I think because they actually are dried.

They are super tasty though and a great thing to keep in a pantry for a quick meal.

This is my favorite https://www.amazon.com/Higashimaru-Udon-soup-50-bags/dp/B002XCYJNC/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1517765854&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=udon+soup+base+powder

We get these from Amazon. Thickest ones around.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007W0D530/ref=mp_s_a_1_20

Up your cup noodle game and try Donbei Udon bowls.

It's Aburaage (Fried Tofu).
Donbei is a product name.

https://www.amazon.com/Myojo-Bowl-Flavored-Noodles-Spicy/dp/B018FMK71Q?th=1

Looks like some sort of typo unfortunately. The amount of calories here line up with the other flavors. Still not bad IMO!

> Lack of specification doesn't imply that it's not a requirement.

it does. If it's not specified - it's not required.

>Other dictionaries do list the requirement:

So there are multiple definitions.

>Can you find any mainstream documentation of wonton, udon, etc being considered pasta? The closest I can find are recipes that are deliberate fusion.

http://i.imgur.com/CPs0uUv.jpg

http://www.edenfoods.com/store/udon-organic-100-whole-grain.html

https://www.amazon.com/Eden-Organic-Kamut-Pasta-8-Ounce/dp/B0012AOJ22

https://www.amazon.com/KOYO-Organic-Round-Pasta-Ounce/dp/B0046HHSIA

etc. etc

You guuuuys this was so good, I wish I could eat it every day. This is an entire serving of udon noodles (198g) for 230 calories, and 512g of soup. I followed this recipe basically to the letter; I just forgot the corn starch. Not sure it made a difference, but hey, I'll do it next time. I doubled the recipe, which made enough for me to have this big bowl, my husband to have two giant bowls, and then I'm eating the leftovers with zoodles for lunch tomorrow!

I used these udon noodles, and this dashi stock. Don't skip the dashi stock!!! It adds such an unique flavor!