Recipe: Soba Noodle Salad (Gordon Ramsay)

Hello everyone, I'm back! We were in Scotland for the last 3 weeks, visiting the sights, doing fun family things as well as indulging in lots of good food. Which means, now that we're back, I need to lose some of that holiday weight.

Soba Noodle Salad

While we were in the UK, I bought Gordon Ramsay's "Ultimate Home Cooking" cookbook, and this recipe caught my eye. It is very quick to make, healthy and thanks to the soba noodles, it is also wholesome and filling. The Japanese vinaigrette dressing, which includes sesame oil, rice vinegar, lemon juice and soy sauce is fragrant and tangy. Though nori seaweed is stated as optional on the original recipe, I would highly recommend that you do not omit this ingredient as it really makes this salad all the more tasty.

This salad can be served as a light lunch or a side dish to an Asian meal (Gordon Ramsay served it with teriyaki salmon).

Healthy and appetizing :)

Soba Noodle Salad
Recipe by Baby Sumo, adapted from  Gordon Ramsay's "Ultimate Home Cooking"
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Serves 2


Ingredients
125g soba noodles
75g sugar snap peas, topped and tailed and halved lengthways
1 1/2 carrots, peeled and sliced into ribbons (use a vegetable peeler)
1 spring onion, trimmed and finely chopped
1.5cm piece of fresh ginger, peeled and julienned
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 sheet nori seaweed, thinly sliced/shredded

For the dressing
1/2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tsp rice vinegar
1 tbsp light soy sauce
Juice of 1/4 lemon



1. Cook the soba noodles according to the packet instructions. When almost cooked, add the sugar snap peas and carrots to blanch. Drain once the noodles are cooked.

2. In a small bowl, mix the sesame oil, rice vinegar, soy sauce and lemon juice. Add ginger, seaweed and the dressing to the noodle mixture, season with a little salt and pepper and mix well. Serve.


Note: I omitted the kale from original recipe since I didn't have any in the fridge.

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