How to Make Beef Udon 

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Could you do a midnight cooking on those spicy cucumbers Simon is always talking about?

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Love how Japanese spring onions are basically leek sized.

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I guess you had some BEEF with that mosquito!

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Martina's going to show you how to make beef udon!

one of the first things I ever bought when I went into the Asian Markets here in Denver was udon and fancy fish cakes for slicing., basics always in the house. udon is instant love in a bowl and pink fancy fish cake puts magic in any meal...and then came the seaweed sprinkles...purple, green, red, golden, spicey mixes you could add to your rice balls and make them fancy fun to eat. Seitan and tempeh are wonderful in a smooth tofu sauce with udon...I'm ALL About the Comfort Food. most days these days, you need the extra love

Here is recipe. Hope this is okay: Beef Udon (Niku Udon) 肉うどん Soup Base: 2 ½ ~ 3 cups dashi 1 ½ TBSP mirin 1 ½ TBSP soy sauce 1 TBSP cooking sake Beef Sauce: 1 ½ TBSP soy sauce 1 ½ TBSP mirin 1 TBSP brown sugar 1/4 cup dashi Toppings for Beef: 200g thinly sliced beef (or Tempeh/Seitan rehydrated and ready to cook) 1/4 white onion thinly sliced 1/2 cup sturdy mushrooms sliced (I used shimeji) Toppings for Soup: 1/4 cup spring onion chopped 1/2 cup enoki mushrooms optional naruto fish cakes Instructions: 1. Pour all the soup base ingredients into a saucepan. 2. Prepare the soup toppings by thinly slicing springs onions, pulling apart enoki mushrooms into small bunches, and slicing the fish cake. Set them aside. 3. Thinly slice the beef, white onions, and sturdy mushrooms of choice. Put them all into a frying pan on medium heat. If you’re not using meat, add a little bit of olive oil first. While the beef cooks, warm up the soup broth and also a pot of water for boiling the udon noodles. Multitasking time! 4. Once the onions and mushrooms have shrunk down and released some of their water (about 1-2 min) pour on all the ingredients for the beef sauce except for the dashi. Cook for about 1 min to make sure the sugar has melted and isn’t grainy. Add the dashi. Simmer for about 5 minutes on medium-low allowing the sauce to reduce. Once the beef is cooked, try a bit and see if you need more soy sauce or sugar. Remember that it will be added to the salty broth and the flavours will be mixed together so don’t over salt it! If you’re cooking it for the first time, I recommend taking a spoonful of broth and some beef and trying it to see if you need to adjust anything. 5. While the beef is reducing, bring the water to a boil and cook the udon according to the packages instructions. For fresh udon, it is usually 2 minutes. Drain the udon and separate it into bowls for serving. 6. Bring the soup base to a boil and add the spring onions, enoki mushrooms, and naruto fishcake. Kill the heat so you don’t overcook the toppings and add too much water to the broth. The naruto is pre-cooked so at this point you’re just warming it up. 7. Pour the hot soup base over the udon noodles and top with the cooked beef. Sprinkle on some shichimi (Japanese 7 Spice Mix) and dig in! Vegetarian/Vegan Notes: To make your dashi fish free, replace the bonito flakes for mushrooms. Soak 2-3 dried shiitake mushrooms with 1 cup cold water (they should be fully submerged) and leave it to soak overnight. Squeeze out the remaining juices from the mushrooms and use the mushroom soaked water and a blend with your seaweed water. You can discard the woody stems from the mushrooms but thinly slice the mushroom heads for eating. If you’re in a rush, pour hot (not boiling) water over them and place something heavy to make sure they stay underwater for 15 minutes.

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I know that this was about the Udon and I loved that you made this so I have a recipe to follow, but I also just wanted to say that I am so glad you kept in that cut with your EDS and did not try to re-film it. Thank you for showing us what your days look like and not feeling like you need to show yourself as a perfect human all the time. Even for that one second, thank you for keeping that in. It means a lot to us out there who also struggle on a daily basis to remind us that there can be small blimps in a day and it doesn't have to ruin them.

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Yes!! My mom used udon noodles all the time for soups growing up and it's my favorite food memories of her! I need to carry that on, and this inspires me! Thankfully in Washington state all of this is easy to find!

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I don't even cook any of these meals. Just watching Martina cook is enough ^^ Love you guys

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I love how you include non meat options 😭🙏✨thank you!

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I was so happy to see this when I woke up sick. I feel much better now ❤

That Rick and Morty reference tho

Anyone else love listening to their videos while cooking cleaning or playing video games? It's therapeutic and probably a little creepy of me to have watched every video/ podcast a few times or more lol

in indonesia we called it "tempe" and it is from soybeans. so it's 100% vegan

OMG I'm currently drooling right now. It's already after midnight in Melbourne, Australia. I'm soo hungry~ Martina, your new update just saved me, I literally was checking my phone and saw a new update for your channel and I was like hell yeah~ Simon and Martina to the rescue. Watching your videos distresses me. Currently studying for my exam tomorrow, I'm dying....!!!! Love u guys so much.

Hi Simon & Martina, I know how you feel Martina the mosquito's won't leave me alone too some times they only like sweet blood I don't know why they only like to bit some people and not others it sucks I hope you feel better soon Martina, The Beef Udon looks so good it's making me really hungry right now, Dr. Memmersworth is so fat/squishy adorable

But this has expanded my horizons. I shall exuberantly attempt making your recipe. Thanks Martina ...and Simon!

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I'm very grateful the effort you put of bothering to include a meatless and meat replacement. highly appreciated and another reason why I think you're such sweet and thoughtful people.

5:24 dashi dashi run run run?

I hate udon noodles but I watched this just so I could hear Simon and Martina. They always make me smile :)

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I love watching Martina cooking. She's so funny and explains everything so nicely. I plan on making this but with some thick Phó rice noodles as I'm Gluten Allergic.

Im hungry now

I really love your midnight munchies videos. I get great recipe ideas from you!! We just went to our Asian food store and bought a lot of the ingredients you mentioned. Hope you feel better from the mosquito

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U DON know how much I love the recipe !

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I made this recipe tonight and it is amazing!! I didn't add fish cakes because I'm not a fan of them, but it's so tasty. My whole family loved it! This is definitely going with my favorite recipes.

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just made a beak from my studying finals.. watching this made me hungry..love your videos guys :D

Is there a way to not use mirin and sake??

Martina does an air thrust as she says: "And then we can start making our udon together" That's an epic looking soup!

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looks so so good Martina! I'm going to have to try and make it!

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