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Soba noodles with Spicy Peanut sauce

4. October 2009 by gregg 24 Comments

photo by Grape Juice Girl

 

Noodles are such a simple meal - the list of noodles you can buy on streets throughout Asia is long.  You can really get by on noodles from a stand at all hours of the day - in a light broth for breakfast, with meats for lunch or a spicy bowl of noodles to end a long night out.

 

 

 

I just love buckwheat soba noodles.  Besides coming in great packages with perfect little wrappers, they are hearty and go well with just about everything except the lightest broths.  This is a quick recipe that makes for a terrific bowl of noodles.  If you have the chicken already cooked, its takes less than 10 minutes to cook this perfect bowl of noodles.

 

 

Soba noodles with Spicy Peanut sauce

 

 

1 Tbsp olive oil

1/2 cup scallions

1/2 tsp red chili pepper

1-2 cloves garlic, minced

1/3 cup soy sauce

1/4 cup water

1 Tbsp brown sugar

2 in grated ginger

Zest from half a lemon

1/2 cup peanuts

2 tsp Hoisin sauce

1 Tbsp lemon juice

1 Tbsp sesame oil

1/2 lb or 2 bundles of organic buckwheat soba noodles.

1 chicken breast, cooked or grilled to your liking, slivered

Scallions and cilantro for garnish

 

Filling

 

  1. Boil water for the noodles with salt.  Cook the noodles while you are making the sauce.
  2. Heat the oil over medium heat.  Add scallions, pepper and garlic and cook until softened.
  3. Add the soy sauce, water, brown sugar, ginger and lemon zest and allow to heat through but not cook.  Set aside.
  4. Blend the sauce with the peanuts, Hoisin sauce, lemon juice and sesame oil in a blender or food processor.
  5. Once the noodles are cooked and drained, mix half the sauce with the noodles.
  6. But the noodles in a bowl, add the other half of the sauce on top, and add the chicken on top of that.

 

Make 2-3 servings.