Soba Noodles with Pork, Scallions, and Shichimi Togarashi

• porsi: Serves 4 to 6
• total waktu: 50 minutes

Bahan-bahan

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 1/2 pounds pork tenderloin, trimmed and sliced thin crosswise

10 ounces shitake mushrooms, stemmed and quartered

6 garlic cloves, minced

1 tablesp0on grated fresh ginger

6 ounces (3 cups) bean sprouts

½ cup soy sauce

1/4 cup mirin

1/4 cup rice vinegar

8 ounces dried soba noodles

1 Tablespoon salt

4 scallions, sliced thin

1/4 cup Sesame-Orange Spice blend

Petunjuk

Heat 1 tablespoon oil in 12-inch nonstick skillet over high heat until just smoking. Add pork in single layer and cook, without moving, for 1 minute. Stir and continue to cook until pork is lightly browned around edges and little pink remains, about 3 minutes; transfer to bowl.

Add remaining 2 tablespoons oil to now- empty skillet and heat over medium-high heat until just smoking. Add mushrooms and cook until browned, about 4 minutes. Push mushrooms to sides of skillet. Add garlic and ginger to center and cook, mashing mixture into skillet, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir mixture into mushrooms. Stir in bean sprouts, soy sauce, mirin, rice vinegar, and pork along with any accumulated juices. Cook until pork is just heated through, about minute. Remove from heat and cover to keep warm.

Meanwhile, bring 4 quarts water to boil in large pot. Add noodles and salt and cook, stirring often, until al dente, about 4 minutes. Reserve ½ cup cooking water, then drain noodles and return to pot. Stir in pork- mushroom mixture and scalions and adjust consistency with reserved cooking water as needed. Sprinkle individual portions with shichimi togarashi. Serve.

Catatan

* For this dish, avoid the darker colored soba noodles made from 100 percent buckwheat as they take twice the amount of time to cook as the lighter colored soba, which are made with part buckwheat and part regular wheat. We prefer to use our homemade Shichimi Togarashi (called Sesame-Orange Spice Blend in ingredient list), but you can substitute store- bought shichimi togarashi.