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Fragrant Sesame Oil Flavored Eggplant and Pork Belly Dipping Udon Noodles - Recipe Video

A simple and easy to understand recipe video shows how to make Fragrant Sesame Oil Flavored Eggplant and Pork Belly Dipping Udon Noodles.
How about some fragrant sesame oil flavored eggplant and pork belly dipping udon noodles? The soft eggplant stir-fried with sesame oil goes well with pork belly and is delicious. It is very easy to make, and can be made even when you are in a hurry. Please give it a try!
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Cook time

20 minutes

Ingredients
1 servings

  • Udon
    1 head(s)
  • Water
    as needed
  • Eggplant
    70 g
  • Pork belly
    50 g
  • Water
    150 ml
  • (A)Noodle soup base (Mentsuyu)
    80 ml
  • (A)Sugar
    1 tsp
  • Sesame oil
    1 tbsp
  • Young green onion (Konegi)
    as needed
  • Seven flavor chili pepper
    as needed

How to make

  1. 1. Cut off the stem of the eggplant and cut it into 1 cm wide quarter rounds.
  2. 2. Cut pork belly into bite-sized pieces.
  3. 3. Heat sesame oil in a pan over medium heat and fry the pork belly from Step 2.
  4. 4. Once the pork belly is cooked through, continue to cook over medium heat, add the eggplant and stir fry.
  5. 5. Once the eggplant has wilted, keep the heat to medium, add water and ingredient (A). Simmer for about 3 minutes while removing the scum, then turn off the heat.
  6. 6. Bring the water to a boil, add udon noodles, boil according to the instructions on the package, and drain the water. Soak in running water to cool and drain.
  7. 7. Put the stir-fried ingredients from Step 5 and udon noodles from Step 6 in a bowl, sprinkle some young green onions and seven flavor chili pepper and it's done!

Tips for cooking

Please adjust the amount of noodle soup base (mentsuyu) to your liking. If you carefully remove the scum during step 5, it will prevent the the dipping sauce from being cloudy and will be clean.

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