Cold Sesame-Ginger Soba Noodles and Greens
This simple cold soba noodle dish is laced with lots of kale and flavored with a piquant ginger dressing.
Serves: 4 to 6
- 8-ounce package soba (buckwheat noodles)
- 1 good-size bunch collard greens or lacinato kale
- 4 scallions, white and green parts, thinly sliced
- Sesame-Ginger Salad Dressing, as desired
- Reduced-sodium soy sauce, tamari,
or Bragg’s Liquid Aminos, to taste - Freshly ground pepper to taste
Cook the noodles in plenty of rapidly simmering water.
Meanwhile, cut the leaves of the greens you’re using away from the stems and rinse well. Stack several leaves at a time atop one another, then roll up snugly from the narrow end. Cut into very narrow ribbons, then cut across to shorten them.
When the noodles are close to being done, plunge the greens and white parts of the scallions into the water and cook for about 3 minutes longer. The noodles should be al dente and the greens bright green and just done.
Drain and rinse until cool running water until at room temperature, then transfer to a serving bowl. Moisten as desired with the dressing. Stir in the green parts of the scallions, then season with soy sauce and pepper. Serve at room temperature.
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This sounds great for a Shabbat lunch. I’m wondering would this work: Cook and store the greens and noodles separately (storing the noodles in a zip lock after drizzling with sesame oil) then bring them up to room temp the next day? I love cold noodles for Shabbat lunches, but I’ve never tried using cooked greens with them.
Ruchama, I’ve already had two day’s worth of leftovers from the dish, and it was fine. I’m afraid that if you store the noodles separately w/o fully dressing them, they’ll be sticky. The only downside to preparing the entire dish ahead is that the greens may lose some of their bright green color, but that would happen even if you made the dish an hour or two ahead.
There are lots of other cold noodle dishes here: http://www.vegkitchen.com/category/recipes/pasta-and-noodles/cool-pasta/
Thanks! And I’ll remember: Don’t store naked noodles!
RB
We also cool pasta for Shabbat lunch in summer. This is quite different from the other recipes I have so I’m looking forward to trying it. Since collards and kale haven’t made it to Israel yet, I’ll substitute chard.
Shoshana, this should work just as well with Chard. Enjoy!