Name: Green Beans with Pink Soba Noodles, Miso, Pecans, Pink Pickled Ginger, & Purple Umeboshi plums
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 7 oz [200 g] green beans (you can also use “wax beans,” which are a paler color, or any combo of long beans); Sea salt; 1 Tbsp sesame oil; 1 Tbsp mirin; 2 Tbsp miso; 4 Tbsp shredded dark pink pickled ginger; ¾ cup [80 g] pecans; 7 oz [200 g] pink soba noodles (check the label to make sure they are vegan); 8 purple umeboshi plums; 1¼-in [3-cm] piece of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped; 2 tsp soy sauce, or to taste; 2 Tbsp rice wine vinegar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

V is for Vegan

By Kerstin Rodgers

Published 2015

About

I had something like this at a fantastic Japanese restaurant in Soho, London called Koya. Pink soba noodles are flavored with plums and you can also buy them in green (green tea-flavored), black or white. They cook very quickly and have no gluten (though you should check the label, as some soba noodles contain wheat). In this recipe, you eat them cold—sounds weird, huh? Actually it works: the hot beans, cold noodles, salty fudgy taste of nuts and miso, and vinegary heat of the ginger.