{"id":33312,"title":"Cold soba noodle dipping sauce","modified":"2025-06-16T08:43:51+02:00","plain":"What are soba noodles?\n\n\n\nBuckwheat noodles, or soba, are a staple of Japanese cuisine. Soft with a slightly grainy texture, they can be enjoyed hot, cold, or at room temperature.\n\n\n\nThe dough combines wheat and buckwheat flours, and the noodles come in a wide range of thicknesses, both round and square.\n\n\n\nFresh soba noodles\n\n\n\nSoba noodles are usually sold dried, but Japanese and Korean supermarkets often carry fresh soba in their refrigerated sections. \n\n\n\nUse fresh noodles for the best texture\n\n\n\nLike most fresh noodles, fresh soba offers a texture that dried noodles simply lack, though I also enjoy the springy, slightly 'snappier' feel of dried soba. Ultimately, it is a matter of preference.\n\n\n\nMaking the dipping sauce for soba\n\n\n\nBecause soba noodles have a distinctive, nutty flavor and texture, pair them with simple, 'clean' seasonings like soy sauce, mirin, sesame oil, and dashi. For this recipe, forget deep-frying and high heat!\n\n\n\nMy shrimp pancakes make good use of dashi and are a delicious appetizer\n\n\n\nBecause the broth for soba is so simple, use the best ingredients you can find: fresh, homemade dashi when possible (powdered dashi works in a pinch) and light Japanese soy sauce.\n\n\n\nThe classic dipping sauce for soba combines dashi, soy sauce, mirin, and a bit of sugar. \n\n\n\nPossible additions for the dipping sauce\n\n\n\nAn assortment of toppings can also be added to the noodles: a dab of wasabi, freshly grated daikon, and finely sliced green onions. \n\n\n\nWhatever you serve with soba, keep it simple so it does not overwhelm the noodles' natural flavor. Dip, sip, and enjoy.\n\n\n\nKaraage chicken makes an excellent side dish\n\n\n\nHow to pair cold soba noodles\n\n\n\nAs mentioned, keep it simple. A small tuna or beef tataki, for instance. \n\n\n\nChoose light proteins and small portions. Marinate the meat, then sear it very quickly. In my experience, people enjoy a small serving of caramel pork or beef with onions on the side. Or why not try some tasty yakitori chicken skewers to stay within Japanese cuisine?\n\n\n\n\n\n\tCold soba noodle dipping sauce\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\tSauce240 g dashi stock120 g light soy sauce120 g mirinNoodles2 servings pre-cooked and chilled soba noodles2 sliced spring onion stalks\t\n\t\n\t\tSimmer the sauce in a saucepan for 5-7 minutes, then chill it in an airtight jar.In a small bowl, pour in the sauce and the spring onions.Dip the noodles in and enjoy!\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\tSauceJapanese","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}