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
Mirin and sake definitely have a place in Japanese cooking, but please experiment however you wish to suit your tastes!
Hi Mai,
I noticed alot of your recipes contain mirin and sake, are these ingredients really essential or can I leave them out?
Thanks.
Nha, I love tsukemen too! I will think about making a recipe! Thanks for your idea.
Hi Mai, just wondering if you have a good tsukemen recipe? Thanks :-)
This tasted amazing! I’m going to use this soup with Udon next :)
Ohayo Mai dono:
Thanks for the recipe! What can be a substitute for Mirin? am in India and it might not be available here.
Arigato gozaimasu
Animesh
I’ve noticed that Japanese love cooking light… Not too bland and not too much of a flavor… I really appreciate Japanese cooking… I’ve been copying your recipes in my notepad… Thank you so much…
I really loved the cold soba so much… When I was abundant of packs of soba noodles, I’d eat 2 bundles at dinner! ♥
Right, the spices in this recipe, are they the same as the ready made soba sauce/soup that comes in cartons? ^.^
http://aeriskitchen.com/pic/ing_guksijanguk.jpg
喜んでもらえて嬉しいです！！
今日初めてそばを作りました。美味しかった。
料理法 を教えてありがとう！(^_^)
Haha :) Keep trying!
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 :(
Love it!! Great picture too!
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~
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!
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! ganbatte!
i have to go to j town to buy soba
good and healthy