Thursday, August 12

10-minute Asian Soup

sobasoup

sobasoup_2

I was grocery shopping with my sister this past weekend and saw her grab a smallish bag of soba buckwheat noodles. Thats a good idea, I thought, so I grabbed a bag as well. When I think of soba noodles I instantly think of the soup that you would get in sushi restaurants. Salty flavorful broth with slurpy noodles and fresh slivers of spinach. Absolutely satisfying. I recreated it at home and it tasted exactly the same! I couldn't believe how easy and quick it was. You can also put some bok choy or cubed tofu in as well. You really won't believe how this tastes!


Soba Noodle Soup
adapted by savvy vegetarian
1 bundle of soba noodles (usually comes 3 bundles in a package)
4 cups broth
1 pint baby bella mushrooms, sliced thin
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tsp rice vinegar
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp grated fresh ginger
few handfuls of fresh spinach
fresh ground pepper

1 Bring a pot of water to a boil and drop in the noodles. Buckwheat noodles cook rather quickly, so about 4-5 minuter for a bundle should be enough. Drain and rinse with cool water. Drain again.
2 While the noodles are cooking, combing the broth, mushrooms, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and ginger in a soup pot. Bring to a boil and simmer gently for 10 minutes.
3 Stir in fresh spinach until wilted but still bright green. Stir in noodles and add about 2 cups fresh water. Season with pepper to taste.

8 comments:

♥peachkins♥ said...

wow! this looks fantastic..

Soon, Then said...

mmmm! I think my whole family would eat that! Yum.

Chiara "Kika" Assi said...

10 minutes + Asian + soup = PERFECT FOR ME!!!

Unknown said...

This looks delicious, and I'm bookmarking it for when the fall greens start growing in my garden!

Alisa said...

This just looks too, too perfect, and right up my flavor alley! I shared it with my facebook fans at www.facebook.com/godairyfree as the recipe of the day :)

Michael @ Herbivoracious.com said...

Yes, beautiful, and I like how you keep it so simple that it could be a weeknight dinner with no fuss.

Jenny in MD said...

Wow. Thank you for sharing your passion for food and good photography! You are bookmarked (the other Jenny is right!) and I will check your posts next time I'm wondering what to make for dinner. You are awesome!

Anonymous said...

What kind of broth did you use?