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Ingredients
- 1 package soba noodles
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon hot chili oil
- 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- 5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 carrot, thinly sliced or julienned
- 2 celery stalks, thinly sliced or julienned
- 5 green onions, bottom 4 inches, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced napa cabbage
- 1/2 red bell pepper, thinly sliced or julienned
- 1/2 cup julienned bok choy
- 1 cup bean sprouts, optional
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro leaves
- 3 tablespoons sesame seeds, toasted, for garnish
- 4 tablespoons unsalted peanuts, for garnish
Directions
In a medium stock pot, boil water, add salt and cook noodles. When finished, place noodles in an ice water bath to cool. Drain and set aside.
In a medium bowl combine, sesame oil, vinegar, soy sauce, hot chili oil, hoisin and extra-virgin olive oil. Mix thoroughly and then combine prepared vegetables and noodles.
Garnish with sesame seeds and peanuts.
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By durgagirl
on January 27, 2012
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The entire family loved this, but they even loved it MORE when I did the following: Add sugar- snap peas, flash stir-fry all veggies and then add 2 heaping Tblsp of Chunky peanut butter. Stir into veggies until melted. Chill in refrigerator and add 3 Tblsp fresh chopped mint. AMAZING!
By lhacking13
Honolulu HI
on January 26, 2012
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I really liked this because of all the veggies. I have made it a couple times and I put in more veggies than called for, personal preference. I also have used somen noodles (8 oz because I had them on hand. They worked well and seemed to be enough. It can seem very oily, but the oil helps to keep the noodles from sticking together. You could reduce it, but I wouldn't reduce the oil more than 1 Tablespoon. If you use regular soy sauce it could be too salty, so try low sodium soy sauce. Of course if you add more veggies like I do then you won't have either problem. I like this because it's full of good for you stuff, easy to put together especially ahead of time and can feed a group. Will continue to use this.
By alison_lea
on July 27, 2011
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I have to agree with Alex..too salty and a bit oily.
It would be helpful if a weight was given for the "package of soba noodles". A previous reviewer said that a package was 8 oz (which is probably the case. The package of noodles I bought was 28.8 oz! I suspected that was more than the recipe called for, so I used half of it and to be safe, I doubled the dressing to make sure I'd have enough.
I used most of the dressing. The predominant flavor was soy/salt. There was a little heat from the chili oil, but it overall just tasted of soy sauce and was missing some depth/flavor. I wanted to add more hoisin but was afraid to because of the extra salt, and wanted to add more sesame oil but was afraid to because it was already so greasy. I wound up mixing up some peanut butter and honey and added that in to try to sweeten it up a little and cut the salt. It helped with the flavor but started to get a little too wet. Maybe I'll add a little ginger and see if that helps.
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