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Nabeyaki Udon
Saori Kondo
Udon chef, Gonta Sanjo, Kyoto, JP
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Nabeyaki Udon

1 h 15 min total45 min hands-onServes 2Medium

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Everything goes into one earthenware pot and arrives still boiling at the table.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Donabe or small casserole, Fine strainer, Tempura pan
Allergens
Gluten, Egg, Soy, Fish, Crustaceans
Method
20 steps · 16 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
3 made from scratch
Films
3, 15 min

3 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Ichiban dashi

Film

Kombu steeped cold then brought just under the boil, pulled, and katsuobushi steeped off the heat.

Instant dashi powder is salt and MSG with a fish note. Real dashi is the whole broth here, and it takes twenty minutes.

  • Kombu000 g
  • Katsuobushi000 g
Steps
6
Time
40 min
Hands-on
12 min

Makes 1.2 L · use within 2 days

Up to 2 days ahead, refrigerated

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Kake broth

Dashi seasoned with usukuchi soy, mirin and a little sake, kept pale on purpose.

Dark soy turns the pot muddy brown and drowns the dashi. Usukuchi is saltier and lighter, which is why Kyoto uses it.

  • Ichiban dashi000 g
  • Usukuchi soy sauce000 g
Steps
4
Time
15 min
Hands-on
8 min

Makes 1 L · keeps 3 days refrigerated

Up to 3 days ahead

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Prawn tempura for the pot

Film

A single prawn per bowl in a cold, barely mixed batter, fried just before the pot is assembled.

Tempura made for a soup is fried harder than tempura made for a plate, otherwise it dissolves before it reaches the table.

  • Prawn000 g
  • Low-protein flour000 g
Steps
6
Time
25 min
Hands-on
20 min

Makes 2 pieces

No — fried in the last ten minutes

Weights and method unlock on purchase
WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Udon noodles000 g
  • Kombu000 g
  • Katsuobushi000 g
  • Usukuchi soy sauce000 g
  • Mirin000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 15 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING6:00

Kombu grades and what you are paying for

TECHNIQUE4:00

Never boiling katsuobushi

KIT5:00

Donabe care, and what to use instead

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 20 STEPS

16 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 16 of the 20 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: dropping the egg at the right minute — step 12 of 20.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 14 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Saori Kondo watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Layering the pot so nothing overcooks

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Cracking the egg into a ladle first

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Why the noodles go in last

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The dashi dilution for a pot that keeps cooking after it leaves the stove, and when the egg goes in so the yolk stays liquid.

Written by Saori Kondo. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

Read it — $6.99

NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

208 verified cooks · 88% said it worked

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