Recipe: Perfect Mom's Somen Salad

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Mom's Somen Salad. Great recipe for Mom's Somen Salad. My mother inlaw was a lovely Japanese American lady. She would make sushi, ribs and all sorts of delicious Japanese foods for New Year's.

Mom's Somen Salad Somen Salad makes for an easy and nutritious lunch. You can prepare all three components (noodles, toppings, and sauce) hours in advance, chill in the fridge, and then take it out to eat when you're hungry. Somen Salad is such a classic Hawaii dish that even high school cafeterias serve it. You can have Mom's Somen Salad using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mom's Somen Salad

  1. Prepare of Salad.
  2. It's of somen noodles, boiled.
  3. Prepare of ice berg lettuce, shredded.
  4. You need of boiled ham (from deli) shredded.
  5. Prepare of char siu pork (find in asian market, or make @ home) shredded.
  6. Prepare of eggs, thin sheets, shredded or scrambled.
  7. Prepare of red/white kamaboko, shred into thin matchstick pieces.
  8. You need of green onions, slice.
  9. Prepare of chicken breasts, cooked and shredded.
  10. It's of Salad Dressing.
  11. Prepare of sesame seeds, crushed.
  12. Prepare of sugar.
  13. You need of salt.
  14. It's of vegtable oil.
  15. It's of sesame oil.
  16. Prepare of vinegar.
  17. It's of soy sauce (shoyu).

Great recipe for Mom's Somen Salad. My mother inlaw was a lovely Japanese American lady. She would make sushi, ribs and all sorts of delicious Japanese foods for New Year's. It's a family tradition that I'm doing my best to follow.

Mom's Somen Salad step by step

  1. Lay boiled somen in a 9×13 casserole..
  2. garnish with remaining ingredients..
  3. Combine salad dressing ingredients and stir until sugar dissolves..
  4. Evenly distribute dressing over salad..
  5. cover and chill well..
  6. Happy New Year!!.

Mom's Somen Salad is one of our favorites, and I hope you'll love. For instance, it's called somen salad because you typically use somen noodles. But you can buy a big box of ramen noodles from Costco or Sam's Club, or buy the traditional somen noodles in an Asian grocery store. Either one is very affordable, but somen noodles are healthier and gluten free. You may substitute finely sliced fishcake, char siu, thinly.