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
- Boil water for the noodles with salt. Cook the noodles while you are making the sauce.
- Heat the oil over medium heat. Add scallions, pepper and garlic and cook until softened.
- Add the soy sauce, water, brown sugar, ginger and lemon zest and allow to heat through but not cook. Set aside.
- Blend the sauce with the peanuts, Hoisin sauce, lemon juice and sesame oil in a blender or food processor.
- Once the noodles are cooked and drained, mix half the sauce with the noodles.
- 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.