September 27, 2004
Soba Noodles with Sesame Seeds
Tonight I made this wonderful dish by Nigella Lawson. I know I previously posted about the comfort of rainy days and now I'm sharing a cold noodle recipe, but somehow slurping a nice bowl of noodles held high to my face seems relaxing and wonderful (and of course yummy). I fact, this is exactly how Nigella describes it.
Click below for the recipe.
Ingredients:
75g sesame seeds
salt
250g soba noodles
2 teaspoons rice vinegar
5 teaspoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons honey
2 teaspoons sesame oil
5 spring onions
Instructions:
Toast the sesame seeds in a dry pan over a high heat until they look golden brown. Set aside.
Bring a large pan of water to the boil and add some salt. Put in the soba noodles and cook them for about 7 minutes (or according to packet instructions) until they are tender but not mushy. Have a bowl of iced water waiting to put them in once they've been drained.
In the bowl you are going to serve them in, mix the vinegar, soy sauce, honey and oil. Then finely slice the spring onions and put them into the bowl with the cooled, drained noodles and mix together thoroughly before adding the sesame seeds and tossing again. (I actually doubled the sauce ingrediants because to me, they weren't flavorful enough.)
Leave the sesame seed noodles for about an hour to let the flavors marry.
Slurp and enjoy. :-)