Beef Yaki Udon is an easy Japanese dish known also as Beef Udon Stir Fry. This dish made with mince beef, noodles, veggies and homemade stir fry sauce.
Mix all the sauce ingredients in a small mixing bowl and set aside.
Cook the Udon Noodles
Add the noodles to a pot of boiling water stir gently for 1-2 minutes or until the udon noodles are separated.
Now, rinse the noodles then and drain them under cold water.
Stir Fry
Heat a large pan over medium-high heat and add the oil.
Stir in the ground beef, fry for 1-2 minutes, then add mushrooms, spring onion and bok choy, cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
Add in the noodles and the sauce. Cook for 3 minutes more, then serve.
Notes
If you're substituting seafood for beef (check recipe variations further in this blog), keep the prepared fish aside while stir-frying the vegetables. Add them back in with the udon noodles after that.
Start with the one that takes the longest to cook while preparing the vegetables. As a result, each vegetable will be cooked to perfection.
To untangle the strands of udon noodles before stir-frying, quickly rinse them under running water. Fresh udon noodles are vacuum-sealed when they come in a plastic bag. They need to be run under water beforehand or become knotted and difficult to disentangle while stir-frying.
Warm the udon noodles in boiling water before rinsing if they are cold from the fridge. Cold udon noodles take time to warm up while stir-frying, as the other ingredients become overcooked.
Don't be intimidated by dealing with noodles in a stir fry. Pre-cooked udon noodles are easy to reheat and are ideal for putting a dish together. The noodles just take a few minutes to heat up and can be tossed right into the skillet with the vegetables, and sauce.