How to Make Japanese Typical Soba

How to Make Japanese Typical Soba

  Do you know buckwheat noodles? One of the famous Japanese foods is Soba noodles. Soba Noodle is a traditional Japanese noodle dish made with the main ingredients of wheat flour, famous ones such as Tempura and Sushi.

In addition to soba noodles with warm gravy, in general there is also Zaru Soba and Soba Mori, which is Soba, which after being cooked is then placed on a bamboo basket until it is cold, then eaten by dipping it in a sauce. Soba noodles are one of the dishes that are attached to everyday Japanese food sold everywhere, from Japanese specialty restaurants, Soba Stall stands, and instant coup soba cooked only by pouring hot water.

 

How to Make Japanese Typical Soba Noodles Easily 1

How to Make Soba Noodles

Material:

•     Buckwheat seeds
•     Wheat flour
•     Water

How to make:

1. Buckwheat seeds are finely ground.
2. Mix buckwheat seeds with wheat flour. Put the ingredients into the noodle mixer machine, the machine will automatically stir the ingredients evenly.
3. Add water little by little until the mixture begins to form.
4. After the color changes somewhat pale, the mixture must be pressed and pressed until the surface looks smooth.
5. Put the noodles into the noodle machine, then the mixture is flattened according to the thickness with the machine. Soba noodles are generally rather thick, but not as thick as udon.
6. After all the dough is smooth, fold the dough into four parts, then put it into the noodle chopper machine or a special noodle printing machine. In order for the noodle dough printing process to be perfect with the desired shape and texture
7. Boil half-cooked soba noodles.
8. Then drain the noodles. Soba noodles are ready to be processed.

To process soba noodles, you can process soba noodles with the following recipes:

Zaru Soba

Material:

• Soba noodles
• Water to boil the noodles
• Nori or if you don't like it may not use it
• Shoyu 3 tbsp
• Sugar 3 tbsp
• Mirin or if not available can use lime juice 1 tbsp
• Hondashi to taste

How to make Zaru Soba:

• Boil water until boiling
• Add soba noodles, cook for a while until the noodles are floating.
• Lift the noodles, drain and then flush with cold water.
• Boil the water to boil, this time for the sauce
• Add shoyu, lime juice or mirin, sugar and hondashi. Taste a little, if there  is something less you can add.
• Soak the noodles in the sauce, sprinkle with nori.
• Zaru Soba is ready to be served.

But not all Indonesians like Zaru Soba because generally it will feel strange to enjoy cold noodles. Therefore, you can try cooking buckwheat with the following hot gravy recipes:

Material:

• 500 gr of buckwheat noodles
• enough water to boil

Hot Soba Sauce Ingredients

• 1 Liter of water
• 3 tablespoons of miso
• 1 tablespoon of dashi
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of powdered pepper
• 2 garlic cloves, then grate
• 2 tablespoons of finely sliced ​​chives
• 50 grams of shimeji mushrooms, then slice lengthwise
• 240 grams of tofu silk, drain, then diced 2 cm
• 200 g of large fresh shrimp, then peel, then leave the tail

Soba Kuah Supplement

1 teaspoon of powdered red chili or according to taste

How to Make Soba Noodles:

1. Bring the water to a boil then enough water, boil the buckwheat until soft and drain, then set aside
2. To make the sauce, the first step is to boil the water along with dashi, miso, pepper and salt
3. Put grated garlic, mushrooms, spring onions. Then cook until the vegetables wither
4. Then add the silk and shrimp tofu, all the ingredients are cooked. Then lift it up.
5. Sprinkle with noodles and chili powder.
6. Hot gravy soba noodles are ready to be served

The complementary spices used for Soba in addition to the shaved onion according to taste are Shichimi Togarashi (7-flavored chilli powder) for warm Soba, and Wasabi for cold Soba Mori Soba or Zaru Soba. Buckwheat restaurants will generally remove Soba Yu (Soba Hot Water), hot water used to boil buckwheat when finished eating Mori Soba or Zaru Soba. Feeling the Soba sauce that has been diluted with Soba Hot Water is also one way to enjoy delicious taste after eating cold Soba. Most foreign manners are not allowed to eat noodles while being slurred so that they make a sound, but specifically for Japanese Soba or Udon, slurping the noodles until they speak does not violate existing manners. Because it is considered to enjoy the aroma of soba by washing the noodles together with the air.

Share this post