Prep Time: 12-15 minutes
Cook Time: 8-10 minutes
Total Time: 20-25 minutes
Servings: 2
Make your own delicious and quick stir fried soba noodles and add all your favourite toppings!
Recipe by Japanese chef, food writer and cookery teacher Yuki Gomi.
Ingredients
- 300g cooked soba noodles or any noodles you like.
- 160g baby sugar snaps, sliced lengthways
- 1tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 1tbsp vegetable oil
- 2-3cm piece fresh root ginger, cut into matchsticks
- 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
- 3 salad onions, cut into 2cm lengths
- 70g water chestnuts
- 1⁄2 red pepper, seeded and thinly sliced
- 200g Chicken thigh or Super firm Tofu
- Oil for cooking
- 1-2 tsp toasted sesame oil
Toppings (Choose your favourites!)
- Chives
- Sesame Seeds
- Sesame Oil
- Shiso Leaves
- Bonito Flakes (dried fish flakes)
-
Aonori
- Fried onions
Stir Fry Sauce
- 2 tbsp red miso
- 1 tbsp mirin
- 2 tsp dark brown soft sugar
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 2 tsp oyster sauce
- 1 1⁄2 tbsp sake or water
Method
- To make the stir fry sauce firstly mix the miso, mirin, sugar, sake or water, soy sauce, and oyster sauce in a small bowl and then set aside.
- Place the noodles and sugar snaps in a colander and pour over a kettle of just boiled water to quickly blanch them. Drain, then transfer to a bowl and drizzle with sesame oil to prevent the noodles from sticking together (it also gives them a great aroma).
- Heat the vegetable oil in a large frying pan or wok set over medium heat. Add the ginger, garlic, and salad onions and sauté for a minute, and add water chestnuts, your protein, and red pepper and stir fry for a further 3-5 minutes.
- Stir the noodles, sugar snaps, and stir fry sauce into the pan, and then reduce the heat and cook for a minute or so until warmed through. Drizzle the sesame oil mix over lightly.
- Divide between 2 bowls and scatter with sesame seeds and coriander or chives to serve.
© Yuki's Kitchen Ltd. 2021
This article was originally published on Japanese Food. Simply. by chef and teacher Yuki Gomi.
Yuki blends traditional and modern techniques to make Japanese cooking approachable and delicious.
