Zaru Soba

A deliciously simple meal for those hot summer days in which you’re not terribly hungry but are craving something salty and satisfying.

How to eat: Sprinkle nori over the noodles, take a bite-sized portion of noodles with your chopsticks, submerge them into the ginger sauce and enjoy.

Ingredients

300g dried Soba noodles

roughly 600ml water

Soy sauce to taste

roughly a tsp of Dashi

3 Spring onions

roughly 4x4cm piece of Fresh ginger

2 sheets of Nori

Serves Three

Combine water, dashi and soy sauce in a big bowl and stir until dashi has dissolved. Taste to see if it needs more soy sauce. It should be on the strong side as it will taste milder when dipping the soba.

Grate the fresh ginger and chop the spring onions very very finely. Then add both to the sauce mixture.

Cook the soba noodles according to the package. Depending on where you live it might be hard to know which are the best soba noodles - experiment and try them out because good quality noodles are indispensable. Once cooked, drain and rince with cold water.

Cut the sheets of nori in thin strips of roughly 4x0,3 cm with scissors.