Cha Soba – Green Tea Soba is flavored with small amount of green tea powder in the soba to give a subtle green tea taste and green color.
Ingredients
100g cha soba, blanched and chilled in ice water
finely shredded toasted nori, for garnish finely chopped spring onion (optional), for garnish
Cold Sauce
8 dried kelps in knot
2 dried Chinese mushroom or shiitake mushrooms
2 thin slices ginger
375ml water
¾ -1 tablespoon sugar
30ml shoyu (Japanese soy sauce) or light soy sauce, or to taste
30ml mirin or 10ml cooking rice wine
Cooking Instructions
1. To prepared the cold sauce: place the dried kelps, mushroom, ginger and water in a pot.
Bring to a boil and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Add in sugar, shoyu, and mirin and simmer for 1
minute. The remaining stock is about 250ml. Discard the ingredients and set aside or chilled.
2. Divide the cha soba among 2 individual serving plates. Garnish with shredded nori and spring
onion.
3. Serve with cold sauce.
