Green Tea Soba Salad with Natto
しらすと納豆の茶蕎麦サラダ

Green Tea Soba Salad with Natto
Lunch November 14, 2012

Green tea soba noodle was served with diced nagaimo, natto, shirasu fish, and kaiware sprouts. As you can tell this dish involves lots of Japanese ingredients. Well, very Japanese! Nagaimo is a type of root vegetable which becomes sticky when it’s cut. Natto is famous (or notorious?!) for its stickiness. It’s basically fermented soy beans. Shirasu are baby sardine and sold as shirasu before they grow larger than an inch. Kaiware sprouts are similar to pea shoots, but they probably have a little stronger radish taste.

I had a chance to go to Mitsuwa, the largest Japanese grocery store in the Midwest last weekend. Since we brought a cooler this time, I got go purchase many wonderful things I usually can’t, including those ingredients I used for this dish. The soba salad was served with sauce made with soy sauce, white vinegar, and karashi (Japanese mustard).

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しらすと納豆の茶蕎麦サラダ
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先週末シカゴを訪れたときに、帰りは車だったので、アイスクーラーを持って、ミツワ、という大型日本食料品店によりました。

アイスクーラーがあったので、こういうときにしか買えないような冷蔵ものをいろいろ購入しました。

早速買ってきたばかりの、長いも、納豆、しらすを、貝割れを、茹でた茶蕎麦にのせたら、しょうゆ、酢、からしをかけて出来上がり。

長いもと納豆のねばねばに、しらす、美味しすぎる～（笑）！！