Soba is made from buckwheat flour. Its history dates back from over 1000 years ago. This is one of the famous Japanese foods. It has many vitamins, protein, and dietary fiber, so it’s very good for your health. There are two ways to eat soba: cold soba with sauce, or soba in hot soup. There are many hand made soba restaurants in Japan. We eat soba on New Years Eve (Toshikoshi Soba) in hopes of a long life, much like soba.
Yield: 2 servings
Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 bundles of soba noodles
- 1/4 cup of green onion
Spices
- 2 tsp hon-dashi
(soup stock powder)
- 4 tsp soy sauce
- 4 tsp mirin
- 2 tsp sake
- 1/2 tsp ginger (granted)
Preparation
- Boil Soba noodles for 8 mins and strain. (Each soba has different boil time, so please follow the instructions on the package)
- Boil 3 cups of water, add hondashi
- Add soy sauce, mirin, sake and ginger
- Serve soba noodle in a bowl and add the soup
- Sprinkle green onions on the top on the noodles
good and healthy
i have to go to j town to buy soba
thanks! ganbatte!
Hi Mai!
OMG. Gotcha!
Quite by accident, am so happy to have found your blog. Jap food is addicting I believe because of the freshness & good quality of ingredients being used and, 2ndly bec. of the sugar in most dishes, something that I’ve learned to put less of when I prepare them. Thanks for your excellent blog whose format is simple, orderly, user-friendly & offers substitutes for non-availability of ingredients. I had no problem w/ them though when I was a resident of Germany for a very long time bec. they were everywhere in Duesseldorf & now in Manila, they’re much easily available. My problem is identifying them esp/ if no English text exists. In this case your blog is very helpful.
Are you a Japanese national?
Again, many thanks.
Am beginning to be an addict also of your blog.
Thanks! Yes, I’m Japanese. I’m glad my blog is so helpful for you! I’ve been on vacation for the last week, but I will be posting new recipes soon! Enjoy!
I just made this hot soba today and tasted delicious! I’m making it again! I really love this recipe!! Thank you so much for sharing~
Love it!! Great picture too!
i belive that mom is going to kick me out of the house soon because i always mess up with her beloved kitchen while trying to make japeneese receipes which most of the times ends up with a complete catastrophy. I’m a bad chef :(
Haha :) Keep trying!