Preparation:

Noodle's soup (men tsuyu)

1. Heat up ichban-dashi. Add sugar, mirin, soysauce.
2. Turn off gas before it comes to a boil.

Preparation: (continued)

Cooking aburage

1. Cut in half
2. To remove oil, place aburage in scalding water.
3. In a different pot add sugar to niban-dashi. Add aburage.
4. After flavor seeps in, add soysauce and heat up for 3-4 minutes.
5. Turn off gas. Allow flavor to seep in further.

Preparation: (continued)

Yakumi (Topping)

1. Thinly slice green onion. Soak in water, then dry.

How to Make:

1. Boil udon and drain.

  With partially cooked udon boil in hot water to heat up.
  With dry udon add noodles slowly to boiling water. Bring to boil again and add 1 cup water. Boil 10-15 minutes. Add 1/2 water, bring to a boil again. Drain noodles.

2. Save leftover noodle water to warm serving bowls.
3. Put noddles in empty warmed bowls. Add aburage then heated up soup (tsuyu)
4. Garnish with sliced green onion.

Mmm, udon.

Whoa, didn't notice it was a png file. Good thing the admin is insane and put the image limit at 51 megs.

I might have to try this, at some point.
It'll give me an excuse to make fresh udon, again.
Most rewarding meal I've ever prepared, even if everything but the noodles was uninspiring.

Biggest challenge would be finding the rest of the ingredients. don't have a local store any more...