Soba noodles with salmon

Name: Soba noodles with salmon
Yield: Feeds four
Ingredients: 1.5 litre (3 pints) water; 15 g (½ oz) instant dashi powder; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp mirin; 1 knob of fresh ginger; 4 small salmon fillets, skinned; 1 bunch of spinach, washed and stemmed; 4 green (spring) onions, sliced on the diagonal; 400 g (14 oz) soba noodles; 1 tbsp peanut oil; 1 tbsp sake; 2 tbsp dark soy sauce; 1 tsp sugar; 1 tbsp mirin

Preparation info

Feeds
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

A light, clean, healthy bowl of soba noodles topped with grilled teriyaki salmon is the perfect supper dish, quick to do and easy to digest.

Ingredients

400 g (14 oz) soba noodles
1 knob of fresh ginger

Supper
Pescatarian

Method

Combine soy, sake, mirin, sugar and oil in a small pot and heat, stirring, until sugar has dissolved. Set aside.

Heat water in a second pot, and add dashi powder, soy and mirin. Peel ginger, cut into cubes and crush in a garlic press until you have 1 tablespoon of ginger juice. Add juice to