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Udon しっぽくうどん

KagawaShikokuUdon noodlesHome area: All within the province.
Udon
Udon (しっぽくうどん)Photo: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), “Uchi no Kyodo Ryori” database
PrefectureKagawa (香川県)
RegionShikoku
Japanese nameしっぽくうどん
Home areaAll within the province.
Main ingredientsIt's not just the meat. It's the meat.

History and Origins

In Kagawa Prefecture, the "swisty rice" is a dish made with a variety of vegetables and oils that can be boiled at once in boiling soup, and a mixture of ingredients from top of the rice, and the flavor of oiled rice can be added to the flavor of the vegetables, and it can be eaten very delicious in the cold season. In addition to the strength of the oak, which is a characteristic of the "praise of praise" and the fine sense of food, it is a typical winter local season dish. The reason why the Kagawa Prefecture has been so well-made is that it has a low rainfall and is suitable for good wheat growing, suitable for mild climate ingredients. In the Inland Sea, centered on Iseshima, which is famous for "Ibnji" There are several conditions, such as that salting is made from the shallows of the coast and the high beaches, and that the oil that makes the salt one of the raw materials is produced on miniature islands and so forth. "In the Edo's, there is a painting of the Chrysanthemum Festival, and in this age there may have already been citrus in circulation."

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When It Is Eaten

During the fall and winter months, when winter vegetables are served, families will be served cold winter meals or guests dinners. In restaurants, it is often provided as a seasonal menu. At the end of the year, we sometimes eat instead of passing the year.

How It Is Eaten

The main roots, carrots, and other seasonal vegetables are boiled at once with boiling sauce, and poured from the top of the boiled rice. There's a lot of materials, and it's all for one meal. It's even more delicious when you add a fine, whittishly chopped pepper as a flavor. The soup is often boiled, but it varies from home to home, from casso to silica to licorice to licorice to licorice to licorice and so on, depending on the home and the restaurant. And I often add chicken and pork to serve them.

Recipe — Serves 4

Ingredients

Method

  1. The carrots are cut into short volumes of three centimeters long. Oiling cuts oil and cuts short.
  2. I will cut the bowl into three-inch lengths, and the tofu will be cut into a short book three-inch length, seven-millimeter thickness.
  3. Cook the soup, boil the radish, carrots, oil, and add some tofu, add some tofu, and then add some sesame oil and taste. I'll put in a bow and stop the fire.
  4. We'll boil water in another pot, heat it, put it in a pot, and multiply it by three.
  5. You can scatter such things as spring mushrooms and other blue ones.

More About Udon

Udon (うどん or 饂飩) is a thick noodle made from wheat flour, used in Japanese cuisine. There are a variety of ways it is prepared and served. Its simplest form is in a soup as kake udon with a mild broth called kakejiru made from dashi, soy sauce, and mirin. It is usually topped with thinly chopped scallions. Other common toppings include prawn tempura, kakiage (mixed tempura fritter), abura-age (sweet, deep-fried tofu pouches), kamaboko (sliced fish cake), and shichimi spice added to taste.

Standard broth differs by region. Dark (koikuchi) soy sauce is added in eastern Japan, while light (usukuchi) soy sauce is added in the west. Instant noodles are often sold in two (or more) versions accordingly.

More unusual variants include stir-fried yaki udon and curry udon made with Japanese curry. Udon is often used as the final dish in shabu shabu or Japanese hot pot.

Dishes

Udon noodles are cooked before eating, usually by boiling in water. Different types of udon are produced to suit different ways of serving them. Udon noodles are usually served chilled in the summer and hot in the winter. In the Edo period, only the thicker wheat noodle was generally called udon, and was served with a hot broth called nurumugi (温麦). The thinner variety, served chilled, was called hiyamugi (冷麦).

For cold udon, or udon salad, the noodles are usually mixed with usuyaki-tamago, shredded chicken, and fresh vegetables such as cucumber and radish. Toppings of udon soup are chosen to reflect the seasons. Most of the soup toppings are added without cooking them much, although deep-fried tempura is sometimes added. In many of these dishes, udon noodles can be replaced with soba.

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Regional varieties

Japan

There are wide variations in both thickness and shape for udon noodles.

Korea

In Korea, authentic Japanese udon dishes are served in numerous Japanese restaurants, while the Korean-style udon noodle soups are served in bunsikjip (snack bars) and pojangmacha (street stalls). Both types are called udong (우동), which is the transliteration of the Japanese word udon (うどん). In Korea, the word udong refers to noodle dishes (typically noodle soup), while the noodles themselves are called udong-myeon (우동면; "udong noodles") and considered a type of garak-guksu (가락국수; "thick noodles"). Common ingredients for udong noodle soup include crowndaisy greens and eomuk (fish cakes), neither of which are very common in Japanese udon dishes.

Palau

There is a dish called udong in Palau, originated from the former Japanese administration. The broth is soy sauce–based like Japanese udon. However, as there were many immigrants from Okinawa, it uses less broth like Okinawa soba. Most notably, the noodle is that of spaghetti, as it is easier to acquire there.

Languages of the neighboring Federated States of Micronesia also have similar loanwords from Japanese udon; Chuukese: wutong, Pohnpeian: udong, Kosraean: utong, and Yapese: qudoong.

Philippines

Cebuano: odong or udong of Davao Region and Visayas is inspired by the Japanese udon, although they share no resemblance in modern times. Odong are wheat based yellow thick Chinese noodles (pancit), similar to Okinawa soba. A typical odong bowl is prepared with canned sardine and tomato sauce. Other dishes such as layering with greens are also popular. During the early 1900s, there was a large community of Japanese laborers in Davao, half of them Okinawans. In this period, the Japanese manufactured odong.

Tourism

Kagawa prefecture is well known throughout Japan for its sanuki udon (讃岐うどん). It is promoted to other regions of Japan through themed mascots, souvenirs and movies.

Text adapted from the English Wikipedia article Udon by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dish data: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), “Uchi no Kyodo Ryori” (Our Regional Cuisines) database, used under the Public Data License (PDL1.0); translated and adapted from the Japanese original.

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