Cold Udon Noodles with Sesame Miso Sauce

Name: Cold Udon Noodles with Sesame Miso Sauce (冷やしうどんとゴマだれ)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves: 4
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons tahini; 3 tablespoons light brown sugar; ¼ cup (60 ml) red miso; 400 ml (14 fl oz) Basic Dashi Stock (or use powdered dashi); 1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) frozen udon noodles or 400 g (14 oz) dried udon noodles; 2¼ teaspoons soy sauce; ¼ cup (40 g) white sesame seeds

冷やしうどんとゴマだれ

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
15 min

Appears in

Japanese Food Made Easy

By Aya Nishimura

Published 2020

About

This creamy sesame sauce is so handy to have in the fridge as a dressing for chicken salad or as a dipping sauce for vegetables. If you want to prepare this in advance, you can omit the dashi and add it just before serving, so that it will last longer (up to a week in the fridge).

Ingredients

Fresh

400 ml (14 fl oz) Basic Dashi Stock (or use powdered dashi)

Asia
Japan
Main course
Noodles

Method

Gently toast the sesame seeds in a small frying pan over low heat, shaking the pan from time to time to prevent burning. As soon as you hear the sesame seeds popping, take the pan off the heat and leave them to cool down.

Transfer the sesame seeds to a suribachi or mortar and coarsely grind them.

Mix the sugar, miso, tahini, soy sauce, dashi and ground sesame seeds in a b