Delicious Japanese stir-fried noodle dish. You can cook this popular comfort food at home during busy weeknights. It’s super quick n easy!
Yakisoba, “fried noodle”, is a Japanese noodle stir-fry dish. Usually, soba means buckwheat, but soba in yakisoba means Chinese noodles made from wheat flour, and are typically flavored with a condiment similar to Worcestershire sauce. The dish first appeared in food stalls in Japan during the post-World War II period, Yakisoba was prepared with packaged or canned ingredients such as packeted noodles, spam, ketchup, any canned vegetable, and topped with pre-packaged yakisoba stir-fry sauce.
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Veggies & Seitan( wheat gluten )
Ingredients for Yakisoba stir-fry sauce
Yakisoba can use either wheat noodles without eggs or traditional buckwheat noodles (soba noodles).
Ramen noodles are the most similar to yakisoba noodles and are a great substitute. If you can get your hands-on fresh ramen; otherwise instant/dried ramen noodles are great substitues.
Always check the ingredients to make sure there are no eggs
I used Seitan( Wheat Gluten) as my protein choice, sliced thinly. You can also use Soy curls, Textured Vegetable Protein, firm tofu, tofu puff, yuba( dried bean curd)…etc.
Prep Time: 10 Min
– 600 g Pre-cooked Wheat Noodles – 100 g Brown Onion Thinly Sliced – 70 g Carrot Cut into matchsticks – 75 g Green Bell Pepper( Capsicum) thin strips – 75 g Red Bell Pepper( Capsicum) thin strips – 200 g Seitan( Wheat Gluten) – 260 g Cabbage Slice into thin strips – 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil Yakisoba Stir-fry Sauce – 2 Tbsp Vegan Oyster Sauce – 2 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce – 2 Tbsp Ketchup – 2 Tbsp Vegan Worcestershire Sauce – 2 tsp Maple Syrup – ½ tsp Toasted Sesame Oil – ¼ tsp Ground White Pepper – 2 Tbsp Water
Cook Time: 10 Min
Ingredients
Preparation: Slice seitan, brown onion, carrot, green&red bell peppers, and cabbage into thin strips. Meanwhile, place all the ingredients for the yakisoba stir-fry sauce in a bowl, combine all of them together then set aside.
Stir fry seitan and veggies separately: In a large wok or skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the seitan and cook until slightly golden color then take out. Do the same to sliced onion, carrots, green&red bell pepper, and cabbage, cook until they are softened, take out, and set aside.
Prep the noodles: Remove the pre-cooked noodles from their package, and place them in a colander. Quickly boil the noodles in hot boiling water for a minute until the noodles are separated. ( if you use dried ramen noodles, please cook them according to the instruction on the package)
Heat up the skillet over medium-high heat. Add the noodles into the skillet then pour the yakisoba stir-fry sauce mixture onto the noodles, stir and mix well.
Finish the dish: Add the Yakisoba noodles to the skillet then add cooked seitan and vegetables back to the skillet. Toss everything together using tongs. Cook for another 2 minutes until everything heats through.
Serve: Serve immediately with garnish( sliced green onion, Nori Fume Furikake )if preferred.