Cold Soba Noodle Salad
Cold Soba Noodle Salad is a salad recipe ready in 20 min. It makes 2 servings, each 430 kcal with 14 g protein. Beginner level, 11 ingredients.
Recipe by @bitesofberi, adapted and measured by Cookpath.
- 20 mintotal
- Beginnerlevel
- 430kcal a serving
- 14 gprotein
What is Cold Soba Noodle Salad
Cold buckwheat noodles with crunchy vegetables in a ginger soy dressing: a quick, fresh Japanese-inspired salad.
- Salads · Vegetarian
- Boiling
- Knife basics
How to make Cold Soba Noodle Salad
Tips from the cook
- Soba cook in 3–5 minutes and turn mushy fast, so check the pack and stop at al dente.
- Don't salt the cooking water, and rinse the noodles in cold water so they don't stick.
- For gluten-free, use tamari or coconut aminos and 100% buckwheat soba: many soba contain wheat.
- Add edamame, bell pepper or zucchini, or top it with salmon or tofu.
- Make it vegan by leaving out the honey or using another sweetener.
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Cold Soba Noodle Salad substitutions
Out of something, or cooking around an allergy. Each swap was checked against a source.
Soba noodles2 options
- 100% buckwheat (juwari) soba, labelled gluten-free 1:1 by weight
Ordinary soba usually contains wheat.
- Rice noodles 1:1 by weight
Spring onions2 options
- Chives 1:1 by volume, add at end
Not cooked well.
- Leek, thin use 1/2 as much (stronger)
Soy sauce2 options
- Tamari (labelled gluten-free) 1:1
Still soy.
Still contains soy.
- Coconut aminos 1:1 (sweeter, use a bit more salt)
Less salty; dark, sold in health-food aisles.
Sesame oil2 options
- Neutral oil (sunflower or rapeseed) 1:1
Loses the toasted nutty flavour in dressings.
- Peanut oil (not for peanut allergy) 1:1
Still contains peanuts.
Chilli paste3 options
- Hot sauce (thick Louisiana-style: mainly chillies, salt, vinegar) 1:1 by volume, to taste
Thinner sauces such as Tabasco are not as good.
- Tomato paste + a few dashes of hot sauce, or 1-2 tsp chilli powder or crushed red flakes 1:1
Different flavour, texture matches.
- Chilli powder or cayenne less, to taste
No paste texture.
