Udon noodles with tofu and vegetables

A bowl of stir-fried noodles with tofu, pak choi, carrots, and spring onions, served on a blue plate with a glass of water and chopsticks on a beige tablecloth.
Foto: Heske Knoppers Fotografie

This delicious stir-fry with tofu, carrot and pak choi is also nice and quick to make, because you use pre-cooked udon noodles. If you want to make it even simpler, use a bag of pre-cut stir-fry vegetables!

  • Preparation Time: 25 minutes
  • Cooking Time: 28 minutes
  • Total Time: 53 minutes

Ingredients

Servings: 2
  • 350 g
    tofu in cubes of about 1 by 1 cm
  • 400 g
    pre-cooked udon noodles
  • 1
    winter carrot peeled and cut into half-moons
  • 50 g
    bean sprouts
  • 100 g
    mushrooms in slices
  • 1
    (Shanghai) pak choi in strips, or halved lengthways
  • 1
    spring onion in thin rings
  • peanuts roughly chopped

For the wok sauce

  • 5 tbsp
    soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp
    sesame oil
  • 1
    clove of garlic finely chopped
  • 2 cm
    ginger grated
  • 1 tbsp
    cane sugar
  • pinch
    ground chili pepper

Instructions

  1. For the sauce, mix the soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, cane sugar and chili pepper together.

  2. Bring a pan of water to the boil and cook the carrot in it until tender-crisp.

  3. Heat a wok pan over high heat and fry the tofu without the marinade until golden brown. Then add the pak choi, carrot and mushrooms. Stir-fry this briefly and then add the marinade and udon noodles. Heat everything through well and add the beansprouts at the last two minutes.

  4. Distribute the noodles among the plates and serve with spring onion and peanuts.

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Tags

Courses: Main Course
Type of dish: Noodles, Wok dish
Cooking time: 30-45 minutes
Cuisines: Asian, Fusion, Japanese
Season: Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter
Difficulty: Level 2 (medium)
Preparation method: Wok-frying
Taste: Savory
Number ingredients: 10-15 ingredients
Keywords: bean sprouts, carrot, pak choi, rice noodles, tofu