Bitter Melon and Somen Noodle Okinawan Stir Fry
Bitter Melon and Somen Noodle Okinawan Stir Fry

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, bitter melon and somen noodle okinawan stir fry. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Somen Chanpuru is an Okinawan noodle dish with lots of vegetables. This quick and easy dish is perfect for lunch on hot summer days. Lots of bitter melon will refresh your tired body. [recipe] Great recipe for Bitter Melon and Somen Noodle Okinawan Stir Fry.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have bitter melon and somen noodle okinawan stir fry using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Bitter Melon and Somen Noodle Okinawan Stir Fry:
  1. Get 1/2 Bitter melon
  2. Take 1 1/2 servings Cooked somen noodles
  3. Take 1 block Tofu
  4. Prepare 50 grams Thinly sliced pork
  5. Prepare 1 clove Garlic
  6. Make ready 1 1/2 - 2 tablespoons Dashi soy sauce or normal soy sauce
  7. Take 1 tsp Sugar
  8. Take 1 pinch Salt
  9. Make ready 6 grams Bonito flakes
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp Vegetable oil (I use olive oil)
  11. Make ready 1 as much (to taste) Sesame seed oil (at the end)

I love bitter melon and I love somen noodles, so I combined them and flavored them simply with salt. Recipe by monemaruku Goya chanpuru (ゴーヤチャンプルー) is another representative Okinawan dish along with rafute and Okinawa soba. The word "chanpuru" sounds similar to the Indonesian word "campur" which means mix/stir and indeed, goya chanpuru is a bitter melon stir fry dish. "Goya" means bitter melon in Okinawa dialect. Traditionally champuru is organized around one of three ingredients - tofu, goya (bitter melon) and somen, a thin wheat noodle.

Steps to make Bitter Melon and Somen Noodle Okinawan Stir Fry:
  1. Put tofu in a sieve to remove excess water for about 30 minutes. Thinly slice the garlic. Scoop out the inside of the bitter melon with a spoon and slice into 2-3 mm thick. Cut the pork into small pieces.
  2. Take out chilled somen noodles, rinse quickly with water and drain water well with a sieve (clumped noodles are difficult to stir fry).
  3. In a frying pan, heat the oil and garlic and add the pork once the garlic is fragrant.
  4. When pork is almost cooked, add the sliced bitter melon and stir fry.
  5. Crumble tofu by hand, mix lightly, and season with soy sauce and sugar. Continue stir frying.
  6. Add somen noodles, mix well, and taste. Add salt if necessary. Sprinkle bonito flakes, toss, and add sesame seed oil for fragrance. Turn off heat.

Pork and sweet potatoes enliven the mix. As any experienced stir-fry artist will tell you, the "bitter" in bitter melon is something of an understatement. Cut the bitter melon in half lengthwise and scoop out the seeds and the white pith. Add pork; season with garlic salt and garlic pepper. Whenever I have leftover somen noodles from lunch, I use whatever vegetables I have in my fridge to make Okinawan stir fry.

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