soba noodles

RECIPE: Cold Soba Noodle Salad

Soba Noodle Salad
for BC Greenhouse
August 22, 2021


This light, refreshing and veggie-forward noodle salad is an excellent lunch or starter. The vegetables themselves take center stage, and the dressing is just enough to add a flavorful punch. 
 
INGREDIENTS 
 
For the Salad: 
- ~125g soba noodles 
- 1.5 bell peppers (red, orange, yellow or a mix), thinly sliced 
- 1 medium carrot, peels and then shaved into ribbons 
- ¼ cup cilantro, chopped 
- green onions, chopped 
- sesame seeds (white and/or black) 

For the Sauce: 
- ¼ cup low-sodium soy sauce, or tamari 
- 3 tbsp sesame oil 
- 1 tbsp lime juice 
- 2 cloves of minced garlic 
- 1 tsp ginger (fresh), finely minced 
 
INSTRUCTIONS 

Cook the soba noodles according to package instructions, then drain and immediately run under cold water to stop the cooking process. 

While the noodles are cooking, whisk the sauce ingredients together in a bowl. Taste for seasoning, you may want to add a bit more soy sauce, or water to thin it down. 

Place the drained/cooled noodles in a bowl, add in the carrot, peppers, cilantro and green onions. 
Add in some of the dressing at toss until combined, adding more dressing as needed. 
 
If you are not serving right away, reserved some of the sauce until right before serving to loosen everything up. 
Top with sesame seeds in serving bowl or in individual portions. 
 
Serves Approx. 4 

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I should not have posted this while hungry.

I made the top pasta dish and the bottom pasta dish on my own from scratch, with some leftover food/ingredients I wanted to try out.

The both of the sauces are vegan, with the one in the top having an almond-milk base, and the bottom one being an avocado-basil pesto. I’d 100% make them both again. I kind of winged it, but there are recipes out there that I based them off of: Vegan Alfredo Sauce or Avocado Basil Pesto

The middle dish is a soba-noodle and rapini dish that Barre posted in their “Salad Library” - it was good and rapini was easy enough to find. Here is the recipe.