Cold Soba Noodles With Dipping Sauce. In Japan, where it gets plenty hot in the summer, cold soba noodles, served with a dipping sauce, are a common snack or light meal. Soba are brown noodles, made from wheat and buckwheat, and the sauce is based on dashi, the omnipresent Japanese stock.
To make the dipping sauce, add the dashi, soy sauce, sake and sugar to a saucepan, and bring the mixture to a boil. Continue boiling for 1 minute to vaporize the alcohol in the sake and soy sauce. Set this aside to cool. To boil the soba noodles, bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil.
It achieves a fine texture that can be mixed into the dipping sauce bowl. Soba noodles should be cooked in about 4 times the volume of water to noodle. Cook according to the package directions, usually only 4-5 minutes.
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