How to Prepare Delicious Qixi Festival Themed Somen Noodles

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have qixi festival themed somen noodles using 28 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Qixi Festival Themed Somen Noodles:

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

Steps 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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