Tofu Soup Served with Noodles and Ponzu Sauce
Ingredients
5 cucumbers
sugar
salt
ginger
garlic
tofu
organic seasoned rice vinegar dressing
tofu
onions
radishes
pacific kombu (dried seaweed)
shiitake mushrooms
Korean chili flakes
365 grams of flour
green onions
2 oranges
2 lemons
noodles
soy sauce
mirin (rice cooking wine)
Directions
Ponzu
400g Dashi
200g Rice Vinegar
100g Mirin
100g Soy sauce
100g Fresh Lemon Juice
100g Fresh Orange Juice
5g Kombu
Combine all in a bowl and Whisk. Sprinkle the tofu with Ponzu sauce.
Slice the cucumbers. Sprinkle with sugar and salt, add ginger/garlic sauce and Mirin, Rice vinegar. Let set for about 20 minutes, then rinse them off.
Make dashi broth, add Nama Shoyu. Add the onions in a pot with radishes, Kombu seaweed, shiitake mushrooms, and Korean chili flakes on simmer don’t overcook! Make ginger sauce by mashing ginger and garlic together in a blender with water (to make a paste). Add it to the broth.
To make the noodles, add 215 grams of hot water slowly to the flour. Combine. Put the dough in the refrigerator for one hour. Take it out of the fridge, roll it out with a rolling pin and cut into thin strips. Boil in a large pot. It will cook fast – the noodles will only take a few minutes to cook. Strain. Place in separate bowls. Chop green onions and garnish each bowl with them.
Serve soup in bowls with tofu.