Miso Udon Noodle Soup

 Ingredients (serves 2)

  • 6 shiitake mushrooms
  • ½ leek
  • ½ carrot 
  • 300g chicken thigh
  • 100g fried or firm tofu
  • 2 bundles mama san udon
  • 700ml water
  • 2 tsp Shimaya dashi stock powder
  • 4 tbsp mama san miso paste
  • 3 tbsp mama san mirin
  • 2 spring onion 
  • S&B Shichimi/nanami togarashi (Japanese 7 spice mix) - optional

Instruction

 1. Prep the veggies and protein:
Cut the vegetables diagonally into ½ cm thick slices
Cut the chicken into 1cm thick strips
Cut the tofu into 1cm thick triangle pieces
A person uses a knife to cut a cross-shaped decorative pattern into the top of a brown mushroom on a cutting board.
2. Boil the udon noodles:
Bring a pot of water to the boil and cook the udon noodles for 5 minutes, drain, and set aside
Hands pouring dried Udon noodles from a package into a pot of boiling water on a stove.
3. Make the broth:
Add the 700ml water into a pot and bring to a simmer. Add dashi stock powder, and stir to dissolve. Add the leek and chicken and simmer on medium heat with the lid on for 10 minutes.
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4. Prepare the miso into a bowl or jug and add 1 cup of the soup broth from the pot into the miso. Stir to dissolve the miso. It will be lumpy at first, but keep stirring for a few minutes and it will become smooth. Once dissolved, add the miso mixture into the pot.
A hand pours a light brown liquid into a metal pot on a black stovetop containing chopped leeks and pieces of meat.
5. Simmer everything together:
Add the mirin, shiitake, carrot, tofu, and cooked udon noodles and give it a stir to combine. Simmer with the lid on for 5 minutes or until everything has cooked through.
Hands stir sliced onions and whole mushrooms in a pot of brown liquid on a stovetop.
6. Serve up and garnish with thinly sliced spring onion and S&B Shichimi/nanami (7 spice) powder. Enjoy!  
A hand sprinkles red seasoning over a bowl of soup with sliced carrots, mushrooms, tofu, and green onions.

Item used for this recipe

mama san Miso Paste

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A clear plastic bottle of Mama Sio brand sweet rice wine mirin with a red cap, set against a plain white background.
A package of Mama San Udon Noodles, labeled