Chilled Japanese Soba With Dipping Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Bring a saucepan of water to a boil and cook the Buckwheat noodles a few minutes. Drain and refresh under cold running water. Hold noodles in a bowl with cold water until ready to serve. Mix ginger, scallion and anchovy paste and set aside. In a small saucepan bring soy sauce, Mirin and vinegar to taste, to a boil. Mix this warm liquid into ginger, scallion and anchovy paste and season to taste with sugar, salt and pepper. Transfer this to 4 small dipping bowls. Drain noodles and portion out into 4 small bowls; top each portion with some julienned carrot. Toast sheet of Nori over an electric burner or place in a hot cast iron or heavy skillet and cook until crisp and crumble it over the soba and carrot. Dip noodles in sauce, and enjoy.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil, and salt it. Cook noodles until tender but not mushy. Drain, and quickly rinse under cold running water until cold. Drain well.
• Combine dashi or stock, soy sauce and mirin. Taste, and add a little more soy if the flavor is not strong enough. Serve noodles with garnishes, with sauce on side for dipping (or spooning over).

Steps:

• Make sauce:
• Simmer mushroom in water in a small saucepan, covered, 15 minutes. Add kombu and barely simmer, covered, 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, 5 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a large glass measure, pressing on and discarding solids. Return 2 cups liquid (add water if necessary) to saucepan. Add soy sauce, mirin, ponzu, sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt and bring to a boil, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat. Stir in sesame oil, then cool in pan in a large ice bath.
• Cook noodles and vegetables:
• Blanch sugar snaps in a large pot of unsalted boiling water until crisp-tender, about 2 minutes. Transfer with a slotted spoon to a large colander set in ice bath to stop cooking. Lift colander to drain. Transfer sugar snaps to a bowl. Meanwhile, return water to a boil. Blanch spinach until just wilted, about 30 seconds, then cool and drain in same manner. Squeeze out excess water. Add to sugar snaps.
• Return water to a boil.
• Add noodles and cook according to package directions, stirring occasionally, until tender. Drain in colander and rinse with cold water. Cool in ice bath until very cold (add more ice to water as necessary). Drain well.
• Carefully drain tofu and pat dry. Cut into 3/4-inch cubes.
• Whisk sauce, then pour 1 1/2 cups sauce into a large bowl. Add noodles, sugar snaps, spinach, and half of scallions and toss. Serve in shallow bowls, topped with tofu, remaining scallions, and ginger. Drizzle with some of remaining sauce and serve remainder on the side.

Steps:

• Note: the recipes calls for kezuri-bushi but the zaar computer likes the name bonito flakes better.
• Mix all the sauce in a pan and boil over high for 2 minutes. Reduce to medium heat and cook 2 more minutes. Strain thru muslin. Cool. Chill.
• soak onions in ice cold water for 5 mins then squeeze out excess water.
• Toast nori over med flame until dry and crisp then cut into 1/8 inch wide strips with a sissor.
• Heat 9 cups water in large pan. it should NOT be more than 2/3 pan's depth.
• Bring to boil and add soba. Distribute evenly and stir to prevent sticking. When it is bubbling pour 1/4 cup cold water in to lower temperature.
• Repeat and cook for time stated on your soba package. If no time is stated use 5 minutes. Test the noodle. You should be able to cut it with your finger. It should be tender.
• Put large sieve under cold running water and pour soba in then wash with hands. Rub well to remove starch. It should feel slightly elastic. Drain again.
• Pour dipping sauce into 4 cups Put wasabi and onions on individual serving dishes for guests. Divide soba between 4 plates. Sprinkle with nori strips and serve cold with sauce, wasabi and onions.
• Have each guest mix the wasabi and onions into sauce To eat hold the sauce cup in one hand. Pick up noodles using chopsticks [right. I use a fork] and dip in end of dipping sauce. Slurp in noodles with lips.
• YOu can also use yuzu, lime rind, fine grated radish, thin sliced garlic or fresh grated ginger root with the wasabi and onions or in place of.