Easy Mentsuyu Noodle Sauce (Concentrated)

Name: Easy Mentsuyu Noodle Sauce (Concentrated)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 20 grams Bonito flakes; 8 cm Kombu; 200 ml Soy sauce; 200 ml Mirin; 100 ml Sake; 1 to 2 tablespoons Sugar

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Mentsuyu is convenient and delicious. I used to use storebought mentsuyu, but I wanted to make my own so I looked up recipes online. After several experiment with more or less mirin, sugar and so on, I think that this version is just like the storebought one I used to use.

It's a bother to have to strain the liquid, so I put the bonito flakes in a large tea bag. Dry roast the used konbu seaweed and bonito flakes with sesame seeds and turn into furikake (rice seasoning). The mentsuyu sauce will keep for about a month in the refrigerator. For about 400 ml. Recipe by Sumairukun.

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Ingredients

20 gramsBonito flakes
8 cmKombu
200 mlSoy sauce
200 mlMirin
100 mlSake
1to 2 tablespoons Sugar

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Steps

1

Put all the ingredients in a pan over low-medium heat. Put the bonito flakes in a 'tea bag'.
2

When it comes to a boil turn down the heat to low, and simmer slowly for 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave until cool.
3

When the liquid is cool, take out the kombu seaweed and bonito flakes, and transfer the liquid to a clean container. Dilute by a factor of 2 to 3 when using.