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Asian Style Soba Noodle Salad

The Home Cook's Kitchen
This soba noodle salad is light, healthy, fresh and ridiculously easy to make! If you're pushed for time, this salad is for you!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Main Meal, Salad
Cuisine Asian
Servings 2 people
Calories 333 kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 3.5 oz soba noodles note 1
  • 3.5 oz baby bok choy roughly chopped
  • 2 cups broccoli cut into small pieces
  • 1 red pepper/red capsicum sliced
  • 2 green onions/spring onions sliced
  • ½ cup carrot julienned
  • 1 teaspoon black/white sesame seeds
  • 1 tablespoon cilantro/coriander for garnish

Dressing

  • 2 tablespoon soy sauce I like using tamari
  • 2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon sweet chili sauce
  • 1 teaspoon sesame oil
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon grapeseed oil note 2

Instructions
 

  • Lightly steam broccoli and bok choy (note 3)
  • Make soba noodles according to packet instructions (note 4)
  • Julienne carrots and slice red pepper/capsicum (note 5)
  • Place cooked noodles in a large bowl.
  • Add red pepper/capsicum, carrot, broccoli and bok choy
  • Make salad dressing by adding ingredients to a jar and shaking. Adjust taste accordingly (note 6)
  • Pour dressing over salad.
  • Garnish with sesame seeds, spring onion/green onion and coriander/cilantro.

Notes

Note 1 - soba noodles are available in supermarkets in Australia and the US, and many good Asian supermarkets. They usually come in 3 portions, 90g/3.5oz is one portion of soba noodles.
Note 2 - I am in love with grape seed oil at the moment and used that. Any other flavourless oil will do such as vegetable or canola oil. I haven't tried olive or coconut oil. I imagine olive oil may be a little too strong and coconut oil will give it a coconut flavour.
Note 3 - I prefer steaming to boiling as it holds the nutrients better. Steaming will only take a few minutes for crunchy, crisp vegetables.
Note 4 - One thing I've learnt, is that you really need to watch the cooking of the noodles. They take about 4 minutes and boil over so easily! Don't make that mistake, it's a lot of cleaning up.
Note 5 - Julienne means to cut up kind of like matchsticks!
Note 6 - to make a 'cleaner' sauce with less sugar, substitute the sweet chili for regular chili, and the sugar for coconut sugar.