In my last post for Chocolate Chili Bites, I mentioned a fun visit to a Korean grocery store. Well, the gears started turning, and here we have our first recipe with an ingredient I purchased, matcha soba! Soba are delicious Japanese noodles made from buckwheat flour. The matcha (green tea) flavour isn’t detectable when cooked, but the noodles are a charming shade of green. Feel free to substitute regular soba.

I love how the runny egg yolk makes a light sauce for the sesame noodles. Dinner time!

Chilled Sesame Soba with Fried Egg

 

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Author: noctekana@gmail.com

Serves: serves 2

Ingredients

• 100g matcha soba or regular soba
• 1 carrot
• 2 tsp toasted sesame oil
• ½ tsp tamari
• 2 tsp toasted sesame seeds, plus more for garnish
• 2 green onions
• 2 eggs
• Oil, for frying eegs

Instructions

1. Julienne or very finely slice the carrot.
2. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil and add noodles. Cook for 4 minutes 30 seconds, add carrot, and cook for an additional 30 seconds. Drain into a colander and and rinse under cold water until cool. Set colander over pot to drain further.
3. You can fry the eggs to your liking, but here's how I like to do mine: heat a frying pan over medium heat and spray with coconut oil. Crack eggs into pan (leaving space between them, or working separately if your pan is small) and let them bubble and pop for about 30 seconds, so the bottom gets nice and crispy. Reduce heat to low and cook until whites have not quite set. Turn off heat and let set while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
4. Cut the white bottoms off the green onion, reserving the tops, and mince. In a large bowl (or reusing the pot), toss carrots and soba with sesame oil, tamari, sesame seeds, and minced onion. Divide between two plates and top each with a fried egg. Sprinkle with additional sesame seeds
5. Thinly slice the light green parts of the reserved green onion and garnish the fried egg. Enjoy!

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