Light and Refreshing Soba with Natto, Pickled Plum and Bonito Flakes
Light and Refreshing Soba with Natto, Pickled Plum and Bonito Flakes

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have light and refreshing soba with natto, pickled plum and bonito flakes using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Light and Refreshing Soba with Natto, Pickled Plum and Bonito Flakes:
  1. Prepare 1 for 2 servings Soba noodles
  2. Take 2 Egg yolks
  3. Get 500 ml Mentsuyu (diluted)
  4. Prepare 2 packs Natto
  5. Make ready 1 for 2 servings Natto sauce and Japanese mustard that accompanies the natto
  6. Get 1 Cucumber
  7. Get ☆Additional Ingredients for the natto☆
  8. Get 4 ☆Okra
  9. Take 1/2 ☆Japanese leek
  10. Make ready 2 ☆Umeboshi (or tubed)
  11. Take 1 packet ☆Bonito flakes
  12. Take 1 tsp ☆Sesame oil
  13. Make ready 1 tiny bit (to taste) ☆Soy sauce

Strain bonito flakes using a strainer. The green tea is what gives cha soba noodles its light green color. Traditional Soba noodles are During the hot and humid summer months in Japan, cha soba is especially refreshing when served chilled. Sliced okra topped with bonito flakes and soy sauce is a bit crunchy and sticky.

Instructions to make Light and Refreshing Soba with Natto, Pickled Plum and Bonito Flakes:
  1. Blanch the okra for about 1 minute, and soak in cold water. Slice into thin rounds.
  2. Julienne the cucumber, and finely chop the Japanese leek.
  3. Put the natto, sauce and Japanese mustard in a bowl, and mix. Add all the ☆ ingredients, and mix well.
  4. Boil the soba noodles, refresh in cold water, and drain really well.
  5. Serve the noodles in a bowl, add the cucumber on top. Then add the natto from Step 3 on top.
  6. Swirl in the mentsuyu around the edge of the bowl, add the egg yolk on top, and it's done.

But sometimes I have no choice… (the colour of the okra in this recipe was a bit too light, I am afraid). Hence I call this dish Japanese Okra with Bonito Flakes. I also pour some soy sauce over it to give more flavour. What are these you may ask…these, dear friends, are really ingenious presentations of the usual Japaneae cold Apart from its fascinating presentation, the cold noodles came with an interesting serving of dipping sauces that are different from the usual soba sauce. Bonito flakes - known as katsuobushi in Japanese - are a strange food upon first sight.

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