# Yakisoba

This is a recipe for yakisoba, touted as potentially the greatest noodle dish of all time, which can be made in under 30 minutes.

- Total time: 30 min
- Cuisine: Japanese
- Category: Lunch
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- chicken breast, thinly sliced against the grain
- baking soda
- soy sauce
- cooking sake
- 1 splash cold water
- salt
- black pepper
- cabbage, roughly chopped
- 1 carrot, finely julienned
- 0.5 sweet onion, julienned
- green onions, roughly chopped
- shoyu
- Worcestershire sauce
- oyster sauce
- ketchup
- brown sugar
- 1 generous amount oil
- noodles
- shredded nori
- bonito flakes
- pickled ginger

## Instructions

1. Thinly slice your chicken breast against the grain.
2. Move the sliced chicken to a bowl.
3. Add baking soda, soy sauce, cooking sake, a splash of cold water, salt, and black pepper to the chicken.
4. Gently mix the chicken and seasonings together.
5. Set the chicken aside while prepping vegetables.
6. Roughly chop some cabbage.
7. Finely julienne a carrot.
8. Julienne half a sweet onion.
9. Roughly chop some green onions and set them aside to add at the end.
10. Prepare the sauce by combining shoyu, Worcestershire, oyster sauce, ketchup, and brown sugar.
11. Whisk the sauce ingredients together.
12. Add a generous amount of oil to a hot wok.
13. Add the chicken to the wok.
14. After about 40 to 60 seconds, add the prepped vegetables to the wok.
15. Remove the chicken and vegetables from the wok.
16. Add a little more oil to the wok.
17. Lay the noodles in the wok.
18. After the noodles start to get some color and crisp, loosen them up with a little bit of water.
19. Add the cooked chicken and vegetables back into the wok with the noodles.
20. Toss in the prepared sauce and green onions.
21. Finish the dish with some shredded nori, bonito flakes, and pickled ginger.

## Equipment

- bowl
- wok
- whisk
- cutting board

## Tips

- Thinly slice chicken breast against the grain for tenderness.
- Use a cutting board only for chicken.

## Source

- Original video: https://youtube.com/shorts/bVdPLXiavzQ?si=lBNIwKZxQ0mOBGF6
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/e7018721-29b0-406e-a814-ed8bc4bf031e
- Extracted: 2026-01-24

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