For dinner on Tuesday night we had steak and noodles. Jac had bought some Y-bone steaks, which she marinated in teriyaki sauce and garlic for a couple of days. She panfried them to medium, and they were beautifully tender. The meat had really absorbed the flavours of the marinade – no additional sauce was necessary. The noodles were organic soba ones we’d bought from Woolworth’s ages ago. They were very easy to prepare – the instructions on the package tell you to cook them in boiling water for three minutes if you going to stir-fry them, four minutes if you’re not going to stir-fry them. Jac stir-fried the vegies (English spinach, snow peas, mushrooms, onion, garlic and the carrot off-cuts leftover from Friday’s bento prep) with tamari (what is tamari?) and white pepper, then added the cooked (for three minutes) and drained noodles to the mixture, stirring it all until nicely mixed and hot. The noodles tasted fantastic. Another dish to cook again.
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those noodles look amazing!!
hehe. never did i thought of hving noodles and steak together. Nicely fried up.
Might go to Woolies later and get the soba and mushroom. Looks so delicious.
YUM! It’s like home made yaki soba isn’t it? I prefer udon to soba in soup and soba to udon when eaten cold or stir-fried. A veggie & soba stir fry sounds like a yummy dinner. I never thought of using tamari, but that is a great idea too. Usually I like to add a tablespoon or 2 of teriyaki sauce to soba stir fries to give it a savoury yet sweetish taste.
arundathi,
They were really yummy. I wished Jac had cooked more!
daphne,
They went very well together indeed. Initially I think Jac had planned to serve rice and vegetables with the steak, but then we had this packet of noodles to use up. :)
flower,
Did you give it a go?
dea,
Yeah, I guess it is! I always prefer soba to udon noodles, whether soup or fried. We’ve had this bottle of tamari in the pantry for ages… I tend to forget that we have it, and just use the standard soy most of the time.