How Japanese People Celebrate The New Year! Toshikoshi Soba!!

Toshikoshi Soba is the traditional Japanese noodle dish I grew up eating for New Year's Eve. The earthy buckwheat noodles are symbolic for biting into the previous year and the long noodles represent long life ahead.

0:00 Intro
0:19 What is Toshikoshi Soba?
0:51 Today we're going to make Toshikoshi Soba
1:29 It's dashi time!
3:54 It's time to make the noodles!
5:51 It's time to boil the noodles!
6:10 Wrapping up the old year and looking ahead with optimism
6:56 Time to eat!
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In this video I attempt to make the noodles and dashi (dipping soup) from scratch.

DASHI STOCK
1 Large piece of Kombu, soaked overnight in 4 cups of water then, brought to almost boiling
Discard Kombu
Add 1 cup of katsuoboshi (bonito fish flakes)
Bring to boil and let sit for 10 minutes
Strain
Add 2 Tablespoons Soy Sauce
Add 2 Tablespoons Sake
Add 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
Add 2 Tablespoons Mirin (Japanese cooking wine)
Boil

SOBA NOODLES
2 Cups of Buckwheat flour
1/2 Cup All Purpose Flour
Sift!
Add 3/4 Cup Water
Knead, add flour or water to tweak consistency
Dust cutting board with tapioca flour
Roll dough flat
Cut noodles with a sharp knife or, use a pasta machine
Boil 30 seconds and wash noodles to remove excess starch.

Happy New Year! Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu!

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Видео How Japanese People Celebrate The New Year! Toshikoshi Soba!! канала Masumi Rostad