5 mins Soba for Breakfast

To combat the heat lately, we had cold soba for brunch.

Soba is the Japanese word for buckwheat, 荞麦. Unlike pasta, soba are rinsed rather vigorously in cold running water. By doing this, not only it will cool them down but also get rid of excess starch, which in turn adversely affect the flavor of soba. It is easy to prepare and nice to eat. To prepare this meal, you need less than 5 mins.

Method

Just put dry soba into boiling water, cook them for 3 - 5 mins (refer to package instruction for exact cooking time). While waiting, chop some spring onions.

When they are done, wash them under running water, drain and put in a pot of cold water, take out. Sprinkle spring onions on top. Serve with soba sauce.

Other alternatives for garnishing: dry shredded seaweed, sesame seeds, katsuo-bushi (bonito-flakes).

For the soba sauce, I bought the ready-made sauce, which comes in a bottle, cost $5.60 for 8-10 servings, bought in Meidy-ya. Some Cold Storage outlets have it too, nonetheless, Meidi-ya has more varieties. Soba sauce is a mixture of mirin, soy sauce, kombu (dry kelp) & others.

In our case, we added a bit of wasabi into the sauce. You may like it too. Dip soba into sauce and eat.