MENTSUYU (Japanese noodle sauce/soup base)
MENTSUYU (Japanese noodle sauce/soup base)

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Lightly smoky and full of umami, Mentsuyu is a Japanese soup base used in a multitude of noodle dishes. You can easily make it at home with sake, mirin What is Mentsuyu (Tsuyu) for? In Japan, we use Mentsuyu as a basic sauce or broth to flavor everything from noodle dishes, rice bowls, hot.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mentsuyu (japanese noodle sauce/soup base) using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make MENTSUYU (Japanese noodle sauce/soup base):
  1. Make ready 400 ml water
  2. Make ready 100 ml Soy sauce
  3. Get 100 ml MIRIN
  4. Get 1 or 2 Dried Shiitake
  5. Make ready 10 cm Konbu for Dashi stock
  6. Take Handful Katsuobushi Bonito Flakes

It's most obvious use is as a concentrated soup base for Japanese noodles soups, but it can also be used in place of soy sauce. Homemade mentsuyu made with sake, mirin, soy sauce, kombu, and katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes). Mentsuyu is a Japanese soup base used in soba and udon. Mentsuyu is a Japanese soup base used most often for soba and udon noodle dishes. (The name literally means noodle sauce) It's name is a little Mentsuyu is highly concentrated form of noodle broth and you have to dilute it when you're using it for soups.

Steps to make MENTSUYU (Japanese noodle sauce/soup base):
  1. Put all ingredients except Katsuobushi in a pot.
  2. Boil it and Turn off the heat, then add Katsuobushi.
  3. Let it set until Katsuobushi sink.
  4. Strain the stock through a strainer with a paper towel.
  5. You can use just Konbu instead of Shitake and Katsuobushi. You will feel Umami!

The ratio varies depending on the. 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. Mentsuyu is Japanese noodle soup base.

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