This delicious spicy noodle salad is perfect for summer nights or when you have no appetite. This is meant to be served cold which I realize some people are not used to. But, if you can get over the initial mental block, you will fall in love with this (provided that you love spicy food). I will also share non-spicy version of this soon.
You can eat it with just hard boiled eggs or pair with other meat dish such as suyuk (korean boiled pork) or yukjeon (panfried battered beef steak) or Korean duck. Of course, this can be enjoyed as a vegan dish as well.
You can also easily make this dish gluten-free if you use gluten free noodles like 100% buckwheat noodles or rice vermicelli and use gluten-free gochujang and soy sauce
Spicy Buckwheat Noodles Salad
Buy the sauce ingredients here.
Ingredients
- 28 oz Buckwheat (soba) noodles Angel Hair pasta works well too.
- 3 Eggs optional for hard boiled eggs topping
For Sauce
- 1 Onion, small
- 3 Fuji apples, small
- 1 cup Gochujang
- 1 cup Gochugaru, Coarse
- 10 TBS Soy Sauce
- 10 TBS Vinegar We use Korean brown rice vinegar but regular white vinegar works too.
- 10 TBS Sugar (or sugar substitute) I know that’s a lot of sugar. But it tastes really good this way but you can reduce it if you like.
- 15 cloves Garlic minced
- 3 TBS Sesame Seeds Add just before serving
- ¼ cup Sesame Oil Add just before serving
Vegetables (Can replace with your fav veggies)
- 4 oz Green cabbage julienned
- 2 oz Red cabbage julienned
- 8 oz Cucumber julienned
- 3 oz Carrot julienned
- 4 oz Red leaf lettuce julienned
- 3 oz Perilla leaves julienned
- 2 Chili peppers sliced, OPTIONAL
- 5 cloves Garlic sliced, OPTIONAL
Instructions
- Boil water to cook noodles towards the end.
- Add all sauce ingredients in a blender except sesame seeds and sesame oil and blend.
- To deepen the flavors, cover and store the sauce in the fridge for at least 1 hour but overnight is even better.
- Hard boil eggs if you'd like egg toppings and cut into halves.
- Cut all veggies.
- Cook pasta according to the package and wash in cold water 3 times and until noodles are completely cold. Drain water.
- Arrange noodles and veggies on a plate or a tray with the sauce on the side.
- Add the sauce, sesame oil and sesame seeds and mix before eating. Add the sauce gradually while tasting.
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