DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Nagasaki Sara Udon
Also known as: 長崎皿うどん
Namiko Hirasawa Chen’s sara udon tops supplied crispy noodles with her complete thickened sauce, pork belly, shrimp, squid, quail eggs, fish cake and vegetables.
About Nagasaki Sara Udon
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Namiko Hirasawa Chen’s selected sara udon serves a thickened seafood, pork and vegetable sauce over supplied crispy noodles. She identifies Nagasaki’s noodle styles and presents this as her own home version.
Pork belly, shrimp and squid each receive a separate portion of the same measured sake. A separate soy-sauce portion seasons the pork; wood ear is rehydrated, quail eggs boiled and cooled, and squid scored before cooking.
Supplied chicken stock, oyster sauce, another soy-sauce portion and sugar make the complete sauce. The selected potato starch and cool water form a separate slurry; neither is taken from the noodle package’s soup base.
Toasted sesame oil starts the stir-fry with pork, then seafood and vegetables are added in stages. The same sauce and peeled quail eggs join before white pepper, salt as needed and the re-whisked slurry finish the thickened gravy.
The mixture is poured over the loosened crispy noodles. Selected optional karashi mustard sits at the plate edge, with unseasoned rice vinegar for drizzling; the source describes the contrast between crispy noodles and their saucy topping.
Ingredients in Nagasaki Sara Udon
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- Wheat flourbase
- Vegetable Oilcooking medium
- Seafoodprotein
- Porkprotein
- Green oniongarnish
- Dashi stocksauce
- Soy Sauceseasoning
- Watersauce
- Cabbagebase
- Saltseasoning
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
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- Japanese Nagasaki / Namiko Hirasawa Chen selected home sara udon
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