22 Ways To Eat Soba Noodles Forever

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Soba noodles, made with buckwheat flour, have all the benefits of other types of noodles or pasta — they’re filling, cheap and easy to make if you need them to be — but they’re just more interesting. They have a strong enough flavor that you can eat them hot and with lots of things or cold and almost on their own and they will taste amazing, but not overpowering. They can fill out other recipes, turn your steamed broccoli into a respectable meal and they go great with peanut butter.

The best kind of soba noodles to get are fresh, probably from a market, and cooked al dente and rinsed. I have only had the dried kind though and I would be writing actual poetry here if I could think of lines other than “I would eat them with some clams / I would eat them next to yams” so as long as you stay away from 89-cent grocery store brands you should be fine. You can also make them from scratch, if you’re a from-scratch type of person.

In conclusion, soba noodles are the noodle of my heart and I am about to go eat a pile of them under a pile of broccoli and it’s gonna make my day. Here are some other ways to eat soba noodles – in sautés, soups, stir-fries, cucumber cups and more.

1. Cold Soba Noodles With Dipping Sauce

2. Cold Cucumber Soba

This is my favorite and I eat basically this, with more or fewer green things depending on the season, at least once a week. Good if you mostly want a sesame seed and sesame oil delivery system. Good if you want an avocado delivery system. Good no matter how boring or fancy you get. I could probably eat this forever.

3. Chilled Soba in Cucumber Cups

4. Soba Noodle Salad with Cucumber and Mango

5. Smoked Soba Noodles

6. Peanut Butter Soba Noodles

Admittedly, these are still also my favorite.

7. Vegan Rapini Noodle Bowl

8. Arctic Char With Soba Noodles, Pine Nuts and Meyer Lemon

9. Winter Soba

10. Soba Noodles With Parsley Pesto

11. Miso Soba Soup

12. Stir-Fried Baby Squash, Long Beans, Corn And Chiles With Soba Noodles

13. Garlic Soba Noodles

14. Caramelized Carrot and Fennel Soba

15. Roasted Eggplant Soba Salad

This recipe combines the best of eating eggplant with the best of eating soba noodles. I’m soy intolerant but hopefully it will look and taste just as good with way more mushrooms and brocollini in lieu of edamame.