Tuna Noodle Salad with Wafu Dressing

Name: Tuna Noodle Salad with Wafu Dressing
Yield: Serves 2 as a main course
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons sesame seeds; Two 6-ounce (160 g) tins of tuna in sunflower oil, drained; 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar; 1 tablespoon mirin; 2 tablespoons sesame oil; 2 tablespoons canola oil; 7 ounces (200 g) udon noodles; ¼ cup (6 g) wakame; 1 scallion, white and light green parts, thinly sliced into rings

Preparation info

Serves
2
as a main course

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Tinned Fish Cookbook

By Bart van Olphen

Published 2021

About

Wafu dressing is a traditional Japanese vinaigrette made with soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, mirin, and oil, which will often have sesame oil and/or sesame seeds added to it. In this dish it goes amazingly well with the noodles and tuna.

Ingredients

Salad

¼ cup (6 g) wakame
7 ounces (200

Asia
Japan
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

To prepare the wakame: Put the wakame in a bowl with 2 cups (½ L) of boiling water and leave to soak for 10 minutes. Drain the seaweed in a colander for 5 minutes, cut into