Light and Refreshing Soba with Natto, Pickled Plum and Bonito Flakes
Light and Refreshing Soba with Natto, Pickled Plum and Bonito Flakes

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, light and refreshing soba with natto, pickled plum and bonito flakes. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook light and refreshing soba with natto, pickled plum and bonito flakes using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Light and Refreshing Soba with Natto, Pickled Plum and Bonito Flakes:
  1. Take 1 for 2 servings Soba noodles
  2. Make ready 2 Egg yolks
  3. Make ready 500 ml Mentsuyu (diluted)
  4. Get 2 packs Natto
  5. Make ready 1 for 2 servings Natto sauce and Japanese mustard that accompanies the natto
  6. Make ready 1 Cucumber
  7. Make ready ☆Additional Ingredients for the natto☆
  8. Make ready 4 ☆Okra
  9. Take 1/2 ☆Japanese leek
  10. Prepare 2 ☆Umeboshi (or tubed)
  11. Take 1 packet ☆Bonito flakes
  12. Take 1 tsp ☆Sesame oil
  13. Get 1 tiny bit (to taste) ☆Soy sauce

Soba noodles can be served in hot broth or with a cold dipping sauce. The recipe here is cold Soba with Daikon Oroshi (grated It is very refreshing and great for Japan's hot and humid summer. Although Soba is tasty, some people may feel the dish is too light and bland with only Daikon. "Cha soba" is a thin Japanese soba noodle infused with green tea or "ocha" or "cha" for short. The green tea is what gives cha soba noodles its light green color.

Steps to make Light and Refreshing Soba with Natto, Pickled Plum and Bonito Flakes:
  1. Blanch the okra for about 1 minute, and soak in cold water. Slice into thin rounds.
  2. Julienne the cucumber, and finely chop the Japanese leek.
  3. Put the natto, sauce and Japanese mustard in a bowl, and mix. Add all the ☆ ingredients, and mix well.
  4. Boil the soba noodles, refresh in cold water, and drain really well.
  5. Serve the noodles in a bowl, add the cucumber on top. Then add the natto from Step 3 on top.
  6. Swirl in the mentsuyu around the edge of the bowl, add the egg yolk on top, and it's done.

Traditional Soba noodles are During the hot and humid summer months in Japan, cha soba is especially refreshing when served chilled. What are these you may ask…these, dear friends, are really ingenious presentations of the usual Japaneae cold Apart from its fascinating presentation, the cold noodles came with an interesting serving of dipping sauces that are different from the usual soba sauce. Sliced okra topped with bonito flakes and soy sauce is a bit crunchy and sticky. But sometimes I have no choice… (the colour of the okra in this recipe was a bit too light, I am afraid). Hence I call this dish Japanese Okra with Bonito Flakes.

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