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Chilled Japanese Soba With Dipping Sauce

Courses: Dips and Spreads, Starters and appetizers
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

7 oz 198gJapanese buckwheat noodles - (up to 8)
1 tablespoon 15mlGrated fresh ginger
3   Scallions - thinly sliced
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlAnchovy paste - or to taste
1/2 cup 118mlSoy sauce
1/2 cup 118mlMirin or dry sherry
2 tablespoons 30mlRice vinegar
1   Sugar
1   Salt
1/4 cup 27g / 1ozFinely julienne carrot
1   Nori

Recipe Instructions

Bring a saucepan of water to a boil and cook the Buckwheat noodles a few minutes. Drain and refresh under cold running water. Hold noodles in a bowl with cold water until ready to serve.

Mix ginger, scallion and anchovy paste and set aside. In a small saucepan bring soy sauce, Mirin and vinegar to taste, to a boil. Mix this warm liquid into ginger, scallion and anchovy paste and season to taste with sugar, salt and pepper. Transfer this to 4 small dipping bowls.

Drain noodles and portion out into 4 small bowls; top each portion with some julienned carrot.

Toast sheet of Nori (dark sheet of seaweed used for sushi wrappers) over an electric burner or place in a hot cast iron or heavy skillet and cook until crisp and crumble it over the soba and carrot. Dip noodles in sauce, and enjoy.

Yield: 4 appetizer servings

PASTA MONDAY TO FRIDAY SHOW PS6536, Copyright, 1997, TV FOOD NETWORK, G.P., All Rights Reserved

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PASTA MONDAY TO FRIDAY SHOW PS6536

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