Recipes

Soba Dipping Sauce

May 19, 2008

Soba, the delicate buckwheat noodles, was once a product of poverty. Made from newly harvested and milled buckwheat and served with this dipping sauce it has now become a luxury. This sauce starts with instant dashi, a high-quality shortcut to Japanese soup stock.

Soba Dipping Sauce

This light sauce goes perfectly with fresh soba noodles.

Yield: makes 3 Cups

Ingredients

1 bag instant dashi
2 cups hot water
¹⁄₄ cup mirin (sweet cooking rice wine)
Soy sauce
1 tsp. sugar

Instructions

Steep dashi in hot water in a saucepan for 5–10 minutes.
Add mirin, soy sauce, and. sugar. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Remove from heat, discard bag, allow to cool.