Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, qixi festival themed somen noodles. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Qixi Festival Themed Somen Noodles is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Qixi Festival Themed Somen Noodles is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have qixi festival themed somen noodles using 28 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Qixi Festival Themed Somen Noodles:

1. Take 200 grams Somen noodles
2. Get Thin omelets (usuyaki tamago)
3. Prepare 2 Eggs
4. Prepare Seasonings for eggs
5. Prepare 1/2 tsp ☆Sugar
6. Get 1 ☆ Salt
7. Take Tsukudani-style stewed shiitake mushrooms
8. Make ready 8 Shiitake mushrooms
9. Make ready Seasonings for shiitake mushrooms
10. Make ready 180 ml ○Dashi stock
11. Take 1 tsp ○ Sugar
12. Prepare 1 tsp ○ Sake
13. Prepare 1 and 1/2 teaspoons ○ Soy sauce
14. Get 1 tsp ○ Mirin
15. Take 1 Cucumber
16. Make ready 4 Okras
17. Get 1 Mentsuyu
18. Make ready 1 Vegetable oil
19. Get Garnishes
20. Take 1/3 Spring onions (chopped)
21. Make ready 1 Myoga ginger (thinly sliced)
22. Take 1/2 small piece Grated ginger
23. Take 1 as required Ground sesame seeds
24. Prepare Rice balls with mentaiko and shirasu
25. Get 2 small bowlfuls Cooked Japanese rice
26. Take 2 Mentaiko
27. Take 50 grams Shirasu baby sradines
28. Take 10 Shiso leaves (jjulienned)

Instructions to make Qixi Festival Themed Somen Noodles:

1. Tsukudani-style stewed shiitake mushrooms: Remove the stems of shiitake mushrooms and slice into 5mm widths. Put the shiitake and ○ shiitake seasonings in a sauce pan and simmer for 10 minutes.
2. Thin omelets: Beat the eggs and heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Spread the beaten egg thinly and evenly in the frying pan and make thin omelets. After it has cooled, slice the omelets thinly.
3. Julienne the cucumber. Blanch the okras and slice into 5 mm.
4. Cook the somen in plenty of boiling water. Rinse and drain well.
5. Divide the somen into 4 portions, and arrange in balls on a serving plate. Arrange the Step 3 cucumber on top.
6. Lay the Step 2 omelets diagonally to the somen noodles and put the shiitake mushrooms on the side. Scatter the sliced okra on top, pour the mentsuyu and serve with as much garnishes as you prefer.
7. Rice balls with mentaiko and shirasu: Make slits on the mentaiko membrane and remove the roe. Put the rice, mentaiko, shiso leaves and shirasu in a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon without squashing the rice grains.
8. Form into rice balls and it's done.

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