How to make Japanese Udon noodles

Today, I will introduce “Udon” !!
Udon is Japanese popular noodles made from flour.　It tasts good whether hot or cold.
We eat it with soup made from Japanese soup stock and soysauce.
At home, we usually use Udon noodles in dried forms, frozen forms or fresh noodles sold in supermarkets. But, you can also make Udon noodles from flour, salt and water!
I will tell you how to make it!

big bowl, kitchen scale, measuring cup, thick plastic bag or plastic sheet, rolling pin, cutting board, kitchen knife, big pot, sieve

1. Prepare for Japanese soup stock. Put kelp in 1l hot water of 60degrees. Leave it for more than 30minutes.

2. Make Udon noodles. Dissolve salt in water. Sift all-purpose flour with a sieve, put it in a big bowl and pour half amount of brine evenly. Immediately, mix them with fingers. Add the rest brine little by little and mix them well each time. Stop mixing if the flour becomes crumbly and turn yellow.
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This is the most important process in Udon making!
Mix quickly to spread water all over the flour evenly.

3. Gather the crumbles together, put it in a plastic bag and leave it for 10 minutes.

4. Step on the dough and spread it to 5mm thickness. Take the dough out of the plastic bag, roll it into a ball and put it in the plastic bag again.

5. Repeat process 4. two or three times.

6. After the last step-on process, roll the dough again and firm up tightly. Leave the dough for 1-2 hour in the plastic bag.

7. While the resting time, make Udon soup. Put kelp and water in a pot, and put it on low heat. Take the kelp out of the pot just before boiling. Put bonito flakes in the pot, boil it for 3-4 minutes, and take bonito flakes out of the pot with small sieve or filter out bonito flakes with a paper towel. [ This is Japanese soup stock ]. Leave 600ml of soup stock in the pot, add seasonings and bring to a boil again.

8. Stretch the dough. Sprinkle potato starch on work top and put the dough. Roll out the dough about 40cm square with a rolling pin.

9. Sprinkle potato starch on the dough and fold it in three. Cut the dough to 3mm thickness noodles.

10. Boil the noodles about 15minutes in generous quantity of hot water in a big pot.

11. Take the noodles out of pot with a strainer, put them in water and wash it softly.

12. Heat Udon soup and pour it in a bowl. Put noodles in the soup.