Sesame Soba Noodles

Method9 steps · about 10 min

1. 1

   Step 1: Prepare 1 teaspoon minced garlic and 1 teaspoon grated ginger. Mix both with all 3 tablespoons soy sauce, 2 tablespoons sesame oil, 2 teaspoons honey and 1 tablespoon rice vinegar in a small bowl. Set this complete sesame-soy sauce aside.

   Uses 3 tbsp soy sauce · 2 tbsp sesame oil · 1 tsp garlic, minced · 1 tsp ginger, grated · 2 tsp honey · 1 tbsp rice vinegar

2. 2

   Step 2: Wash both scallion stalks. Chop their white parts into ¼-inch pieces and mince their green parts, keeping the two prepared portions separate. Both parts come from the same two stalks.

   Uses 2 stalks scallions; whites chopped into ¼-inch pieces, greens minced

3. 3

   Step 3: Cook all 170 g soba noodles in boiling water according to their package. Use the selected product’s cooking time; the author does not give a universal noodle-cooking interval.

   Soba cooking timeUses 170 g soba noodles · Water for boiling soba according to the package

4. 4

   Step 4: Rinse all the cooked soba from step 3 under cold water, drain well and set aside for the brief pan stages. No timed chilling period is needed.

   Uses All 170 g soba cooked in step 3 · Cold water for rinsing the cooked soba

5. 5

   Step 5: Heat all 1 tablespoon neutral oil over medium-high heat. Add all the chopped scallion whites from step 2 and cook for about 30 seconds, until fragrant.

   Cook chopped scallion whites · 1 minUses 1 tbsp neutral oil · All the white parts chopped from both stalks in step 2

6. 6

   Step 6: Pour the complete sesame-soy sauce from step 1 into the fragrant scallion whites and oil from step 5. Stir and cook together for another 30 seconds.

   Cook sesame-soy sauce · 1 minUses All the white parts and neutral oil cooked in step 5 · The complete six-ingredient sauce mixed in step 1

7. 7

   Step 7: Add all the rinsed, drained soba from step 4, all the minced scallion greens from step 2 and all 2 tablespoons ready-toasted sesame seeds to the hot sauce from step 6.

   Uses All the cooked noodles rinsed and drained in step 4 · All the green parts minced from both stalks in step 2 · 2 tbsp sesame seeds, toasted · The complete sauce, oil and white scallion parts cooked in step 6

8. 8

   Step 8: Toss the complete noodle, sauce, scallion and sesame mixture from step 7 together until the noodles are evenly coated and warmed through.

   Uses All the noodles, sauce, both scallion portions and measured toasted seeds combined in step 7

   
9. 9

   Step 9: Divide the finished sesame soba from step 8 between the two servings. If desired, finish with the separate optional 1 tablespoon extra sesame seeds and 1 tablespoon furikake. These are additional garnish allowances; the original 2 tablespoons toasted seeds were already used in step 7.

   Uses The complete coated, warmed noodle dish from step 8 · 1 tbsp sesame seeds (optional) · 1 tbsp furikake (optional)