Zaru Soba Noodles

This is a super easy recipe that works well especially when the weather is hot!

Zaru soba is cold soba noodles (buckwheat noodles), served with dipping soup (mentsuyu) and some toppings.

Ingredients

14 oz. dried soba (buckwheat noodles)
2 cups - 2 1/2 cups mentsuyu (dipping sauce)
(You can buy ready made sauce in NTUC or Cold Storage)
2 eggs
1 tablespoon olive oil/peanut oil
Handful of seaweed

Directions

Boil water in a large pot. Add dried soba noodles in the boiling water, gently stirring noodles with chopsticks. Turn down the heat to medium. Boil soba noodles, following the package instructions. It usually takes a couple minutes to boil soba. If it's necessary, add a little bit of cold water in the pot to prevent overflowing. Drain soba and cool the noodles in cold water. Gently wash noodles with hands and drain well. Divide soba among four serving plates or zaru (draining bamboo baskets). Divide mentsuyu (noodle dipping soup) among four small cups.

Beat together eggs until blended. In a small nonstick frying pan, heat oil until just hot enough to sizzle a drop of water. Pour in egg mixture and fry till both sides are lightly golden brown.

Cut omelet and seaweed into small strips for soba toppings.