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Any savoury dish with peanuts and/or peanut butter can just go ahead and get into my face.
Summer noodles.
Soba Noodles are a Japanese wheat and buckwheat noodle often served cold. This makes them perfect for a summer noodle dish. Combine soba with a bunch of crunchy, julienned veggies, vibrant herbs and a spicy peanut dressing and you’ve got one heck of a cool summer meal on your hands. No need to chill the soba, instead use the warmth of the noodles and noodle water to loosen up the peanut dressing. The noodles with cool down once they are tossed with the cold veggies.
What kind of chilli oil?
Any kind! This is my favourite Chilli Oil but you can use whatever chilli oil or hot sauce you happen to have on hand. Sriracha would be delicious too. Leave the spice out entirely if you aren’t a fan or add much more if you love it real spic-ay.
Check out the recipe video below for a tutorial on how to make this refreshing noodle salad:
Spicy Peanut Soba Noodle Salad
Ingredients
Soba Noodle Salad
- 2 bundles soba noodles (180 g)
- 1 cup finely sliced cabbage
- ½ cup julienned cucumber
- ½ cup julienned carrot
- ¼ cup packed mint leaves minced
- ¼ cup packed cilantro leaves and stems minced
- 3 scallions sliced
- ½ cup roasted peanuts roughly chopped
Spicy Peanut Dressing
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp hoisin sauce
- 2 tbsp chilli oil or to taste
- 1 garlic clove grated
- 1 tsp freshly grated ginger
- ¼ – ½ cup hot noodle water
Garnish
- sesame seeds
Instructions
- To prep the salad: slice and chop all the veggies, herbs and peanuts and add to a large bowl.
- Cook the soba according to package directions.
- While the soba is cooking, steal 1/2 cup of the noodle water to use when making the dressing.
- Make the dressing: combine the peanut butter, rice vinegar, soy sauce and hoisin sauce in a bowl and break it up with your whisk a bit.
- To that mixture, add the chilli oil, garlic and ginger.
- Add a few tablespoons of the reserved hot water and whisk. Keep adding hot water until the dressing is the thickness of whipping cream. How much water you add will depend on what type of peanut butter you use. Set aside.
- Once the soba is finished cooking, add it to the bowl.
- Add the dressing to the bowl and toss until the noodles and veg are coated. You may need a few more tablespoons of hot water to help loosen up the dressing while tossing.
- Serve up and garnish with sesame seeds.
