How to Cook Yakisoba, Japanese Fried Noodles

      Tonight, I learned how to cook yakisoba (焼きそば) from my husband. Yakisoba is Japanese fried noodles and is one of the most popular foods in Japan. When it comes to noodle dishes, he is very good at cooking those. Today, I'm going to share how to cook yakisoba with you.

 

Ingredients for 2 Servings

1 Egg (Beaten)

2 Sliced Bacon (Cut into Pieces)

2 Servings of Noodles and Sauce for Yakisoba

1/2 Onion (Sliced)

1/4 of A Head of Cabbage (Chopped)

1/2 Cup of Water

Aonori Flakes (青のり)

Katsuobushi (かつおぶし), Dried Bonito Flakes

Japanese Mayonnaise

Kizami Shoga (刻み紅生姜), Shredded Red Ginger Pickles

         

Noodles for Yakisoba

      We usually purchase this Maruchan's Nama Yaki-Soba, which contains three servings of noodles and powdered yakisoba sauce, at our local Japanese supermarkets. (Nama means raw in Japanese, by the way.) In the U.S., you can find this one at frozen aisle at Asian supermarkets. In Japan, you can find raw yakisoba noodles at fridge aisle at most supermarkets.

     This time, we used two servings of noodles and yakisoba sauce.

Meat and Vegetables

      This time, we used turkey bacon, onion and cabbage because we have those in our kitchen, but you can use any kinds of meat and vegetables. For meat, I recommend thinly sliced pork, regular pork bacon or sausage. If you would like to try seafood yakisoba, you can try octopus or squids. For vegetables, I recommend onion, cabbages, carrots, bell peppers or/and bean sprouts.

How to Cook Yakisoba (焼きそば), Japanese Fried Noodles

1. Heat oil in a large frying pan over high heat. Stir-fry beaten egg in the pan.

    Then, move the eggs onto a dish.

2. In the same pan, stir-fry bacon until it's cooked.

    Then, move the bacon onto a dish.

3. Microwave frozen noodles for two to three minutes until they are almost fully cooked.

4. Heat oil in the same pan over high heat. Stir-fry onions and cabbages for three minutes.

5. Add noodles. Then, pour water over the noodles, and loosen the noodles with chopsticks.

6. Cover the lid and cook it for 1 to two minutes.

7. Turn off the heat. Then, add cooked egg, bacon and vegetables.

8. Add powdered yakisoba sauce over the noodles.

     Stir them thoroughly.

9. Serve the yakisoba on a plate.

    Sprinkle aonori flakes over it.

 

     Sprinkle katsuobushi, dried bonito flakes, over it.

    Top it with Japanese mayonnaise. You can also add shredded red ginger pickles on top. (We ran out of shredded red ginger pickles this time though.)

10. Enojy!

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