I know that bananas are typical of
most soba noodle salads, but I wasn't sure if they are similarly delicious with other noodles?
One word of caution, while buckwheat is indeed gluten free,
most soba noodles are not.
Not exact matches
Personally I find it has a VERY strong flavour and I can understand what some people mean when they say it tastes like «dirt», although I do actually like the taste in
most things (although the other day I used some of the water from cooking
soba noodles in another recipe and it was gross!).
The
most amazing dry
noodles you will have: abura
soba with shoyu.
In the
most recent round of sampling, Australian Certified Organic tested products as diverse as nuts, miso, beans, oysters, garlic, spices,
soba noodles, oats, sourdough breads, raspberry leaves, roasted coffee beans, lemons and kale.
By the same token, when serving Udon with dipping broth, the
most popular use of
noodles in Japan, the broth is usually less intensely flavored with shoyu and mirin than when using
Soba.
I guess I wanted to make the cashew
soba noodle salad the
most though, because that's where I got started.
If you use 100 % buckwheat
soba noodles, you'll have the
most nutritional benefits.
I've always been a «go where the flavors lead you» kind of cook (it works out great
most of the time), and honestly,
soba noodles are pretty hard to screw up.
Beans, peas and lentils 1/2 cup (150 g) baked beans in tomato sauce (GI 49) provides an average of 7 g protein 1/2 cup (130 g) canned, drained cannellini beans (GI 31) provides an average of 8 g protein 2/3 cup (125 g) cooked red lentils (GI 26) provides an average of 12 g protein 1 cup (180 g) cooked split peas (GI 25) provides an average of 12 g protein 1 cup (170 g) cooked soy beans (GI 18) provides around 23 g protein 100 g (3 1/2 oz) tofu provides around 10 g protein (GI not relevant as tofu contain no carbohydrate) 1 cup (250 ml) light soy milk (GI 44) provides around 7 g protein Grains and grain foods 3/4 cup (30 g) Kellogg Special K original (GI 56) provides around 6 g protein 3/4 cup (45 g) Kellogg All - Bran (GI 44) provides around 7 g protein 1/4 cup (30 g) uncooked traditional rolled oats (GI 57) provides around 3 g protein 1 slice (35 g) Tip Top 9 - grain Original bread (GI 53) provides around 4 g protein 1 slice (40 g) Burgen Soy - Lin bread (GI 52) provides around 6g protein 1 cup (170 g) cooked brown rice (GI 59 — 86, so check the tables and choose a low GI one) provides around 5 g protein 1 cup (170 g) cooked basmati rice (GI 58) provides around 4 g protein 1 cup (180 g) cooked pasta (GI 35 — 54) provides around 6 — 7 g protein 1 cup (180 g) cooked fresh rice
noodles (GI 40) provides around 2 — 3 g protein 1 cup (180 g) cooked
soba / buckwheat
noodles (GI 46) provides around 7 g protein 1 cup (190 g) cooked pearl barley (GI 25) provides around 4 — 5 g protein 1/2 cup (90 g) cooked quinoa (GI 53) provides around 4.5 g protein Nuts and seeds A small handful (30g / 1oz) of
most nuts or seeds will deliver around 5 g protein (GI not relevant as
most nuts and seeds contain almost no carbohydrate, they are rich in good fats) Stock your pantry with legumes, wholegrains (such as grainy breads, muesli, quinoa, amaranth, brown rice, pearl barley and rolled oats), nuts (particularly almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews and peanuts), and seeds (sesame seeds, tahini paste, and pumpkin seeds).
Most commonly, I boil
soba (buckwheat)
noodles, fry some tofu cubes, and sauté a bunch of greens, like kale, bok chop, or rapini, in order to make vegetarian bowls for dinner.