Easy Mentsuyu Noodle Sauce (Concentrated)
Easy Mentsuyu Noodle Sauce (Concentrated)

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Easy homemade mentsuyu recipe with sake, mirin, soy sauce, and katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes). Making Mentsuyu at home is as easy as combining all the ingredients in a pot and let it simmer down to a concentrated sauce. You can store it in a mason jar and keep in the refrigerator.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy mentsuyu noodle sauce (concentrated) using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Mentsuyu Noodle Sauce (Concentrated):
  1. Take 20 grams Bonito flakes
  2. Get 8 cm Kombu
  3. Take 200 ml Soy sauce
  4. Prepare 200 ml Mirin
  5. Make ready 100 ml Sake
  6. Make ready 1 to 2 tablespoons Sugar

It's so refreshing to dip cold soba noodles. Mentsuyu (noodle sauce) is a very versatile sauce that gives many dishes a great Japanese flavor. This is perfect for dipping cold Soba or Somen noodles, tempura and more. It is so easy to make and keeps well in the refrigerator (at least a couple weeks, stays for a month in my fridge), and comes in.

Instructions to make Easy Mentsuyu Noodle Sauce (Concentrated):
  1. Put all the ingredients in a pan over low-medium heat. Put the bonito flakes in a 'tea bag'.
  2. When it comes to a boil turn down the heat to low, and simmer slowly for 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave until cool.
  3. When the liquid is cool, take out the kombu seaweed and bonito flakes, and transfer the liquid to a clean container. Dilute by a factor of 2 to 3 when using.

BTW, the (men) part means noodle in Japan, so mentsuyu means noodle broth and mendare means noodle sauce. But, this type of broth is the basis for many, many Japanese cooking and I hope you can make this and keep it bottled in the refrigerator. Once made, it is easily kept in the fridge for at least. Mentsuyu (noodle soup base) is one tasty way to season your noodles. Literally translated, men means noodles and tsuyu means sauce or broth in Japanese.

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