Cold Soba Noodle + Japanese Chicken Salad

Posted January 29th, 2009 in Food No Comments »

It’s a soba season for Japanese people here. Eating this buckwheat noodle with refreshing ginger dipping sauce can make you forget the hot air outside.

<Dipping Sauce> for two

4 cups water
2 tsp Dashi powder (Japanese fish stock)
2 tbs sake (cooking wine)
3 tbs soy sauce

Place all the ingredients in a sauce pan, and simmer it down till its half the amount. When eating, add grated ginger into the sauce. Enjoy with chopped spring onions and Japanese chili powder if you like.

Enjoy with cooked soba noodle 🙂

This is just an easy side dish 🙂

50g chicken breast
1 tsp sake (cooking wine)
1/8 cucumber
1 tbs Japanese mayonnaise
salt & pepper

Place chicken breast in a microwave proof bowl. Sprinkle sake, salt and pepper on the breast. Cover with plastic wrap and steam in the microwave till it’s cooked. (about 2~3 minutes)
Slice cucumber.
Shred the chicken meat. Mix with cucumber, mayonnaise and season.