Yakisoba
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Yakisoba ( Japanese 焼 そ ば or 焼 き そ ば , literally "fried buckwheat ", meaning " fried noodles ") is a noodle dish in Japanese cuisine .
Etymology and history
Although “ soba ” is part of the name, noodles are generally meant in this context . The term “soba” is used metonymically as a rhetorical stylistic device , because buckwheat is not used, but wheat flour, as is the case with ramen noodles.
Buckwheat noodles come from China and have been known in Japan since the 4th century. The dish in its current form is traceable to the beginning of the 20th century when it became a popular street food .
preparation
The dish consists of pre-cooked noodles that are fried with vegetables, a source of protein (meat, fish or tofu ) and a sauce. There is no standard recipe for the sauce; essential ingredients are oyster and soy sauce .
A variation that has been sold at Japanese street stalls since the 1950s is serving the dish in a hot dog bread. In teppanyaki restaurants you can either order yakisoba as a ready-made dish or prepare it yourself on the teppan . Here you get a bowl with pre-cooked pasta and the other ingredients. You can either fry the pasta first and then add the rest or put everything together on the teppan and fry. Yakisoba is commercially available as an instant product; Nissin Foods is the market leader in Asia . The sauce is also available as an industrial product, including from the soy sauce manufacturer Kikkoman .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Helen Chen: Helen's Asian Kitchen: Easy Asian Noodles . 1st edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Hoboken , NJ , USA 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-38755-9 , pp. 33 (hardcover) (English).
- ↑ a b Yabai.com: Yakisoba: The Japanese Noodle That Conquered The World. Retrieved April 7, 2018 .
- ^ NYTimes.com: Yakisoba: Leeway Among the Noodles. Retrieved April 7, 2018 .