This recipe from our deli case offers a different take on the usual pasta salad that shows up at picnics and backyard barbeques. Made with traditional Japanese soba noodles, this salad has the nutritional boost of buckwheat in the noodles. Some soba noodles sold at the Co-op also have other traditional ingredients added from flavor such as lotus root and wild yam. Experiment and try your favorite in this salad.

Co-op Cafe Soba Noodle Salad

Co-op Café Soba Noodle Salad

Course: Salads
Servings: 4 People
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Ingredients

  • 1/2 pound tofu grilled, julienned
  • 1 each carrot julienned
  • 1 each celery stalk julienned
  • 1/2 each red pepper julienned
  • 1/8 cup shiitake mushroom fresh or reconstituted
  • 1/4 cup tamari soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup toasted sesame oil
  • 1/8 cup sesame seeds toasted
  • 2 teaspoons ginger grated
  • 1/3 bunch cilantro
  • 1 teaspoon garlic

Instructions

  1. Boil soba noodles and rinse in cold water.
  2. Slice tofu and grill or brown sides in hot pan. Cool and slice into julienne style pieces.
  3. Mix noodles, tofu and veggies.
  4. Mix tamari, sesame oil, sesame seeds, ginger, garlic and cilantro.
  5. Pour dressing over noodles, tofu, and veggies and mix.
  6. Refrigerate and serve cold.