Shrimp Yakisoba

4.94 from 30 votes

The stir-fried noodles dish studded with plump shrimp and tender vegetables in a savory-sweet sauce, is an easy and delicious weeknight meal.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Japanese

Keyword japanese noodles, shrimp yakisoba, yakisoba

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Total Time 20

Servings servings

Calories 443kcal

Author Robin Donovan

Ingredients

For the noodles

3 tablespoons cooking oil divided
1 pound peeled and deveined shrimp
8 ounces dried yakisoba or chuka soba noodles or 16 ounces fresh or frozen yakisoba noodles
½ small onion sliced
1 carrot peeled and cut into matchsticks
6 shiitake mushrooms stemmed and sliced
¼ green cabbage thinly sliced
2 green onions sliced

For the sauce

2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
1 teaspoons chile paste
1 ½ teaspoons sugar

Instructions

Cook the noodles al dente in a pot of boiling water—about 2 minutes for dried chuka soba noodles or 1 minute for fresh noodles. Drain in a colander and rinse with cool water to stop the
cooking. Leave in a colander in the sink to drain while you continue with the recipe.
In a bowl whisk together the soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce, chile paste, and sugar.
Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the shrimp and cook, stirring frequently, until pink and cooked through, about 2 minutes. Transfer the shrimp
to a plate or bowl.
Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil to the skillet along with the onion, carrot, and mushrooms. Cook, stirring frequently, until the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes.
Add the cabbage and green onions and cook, stirring, for about 1 minute, until the cabbage begins to wilt. Add the shrimp and noodles and cook, stirring to mix well, for about 2 minutes more until everything is warmed through and the cabbage is beginning to wilt.
Add the sauce and cook, tossing to coat the noodles well with the sauce and mix everything together, for about 2 more minutes.
Serve hot.

Notes

Yakisoba noodles are different from soba noodles. They are wheat noodles that contain kansui (an alkalinizing agent), which makes them wonderfully chewy. You can use dry yakisoba noodles or chuka soba
noodles or fresh or frozen yakisoba noodles.

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