Soba and Shrimp Salad with Wasabi Dressing

Name: Soba and Shrimp Salad with Wasabi Dressing
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 170 grams quarts baby spinach leaves , rinsed and crisped; 3 Tbsps thinly sliced green onions (including green tops); 2 Tbsps lemon juice; 59 milliliters thinly slivered red or pink pickled ginger (see notes); 340 grams shelled cooked tiny shrimp, rinsed; 227 grams dried soba noodles (see; 59 milliliters soy sauce; 2 teaspoons wasabi powder (see notes)

Need a dairy free and pescatarian main course? Soban and Shrimp Salad with Wasabi Dressing could be an amazing recipe to try. One portion of this dish contains roughly 29g of protein, 2g of fat, and a total of 309 calories. This recipe covers 28% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. Head to the store and pick up tiny shrimp, green onions, lemon juice, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

In a 5- to 6-quart pan over high heat, bring 2 1/2 to 3 quarts water to a boil.

Ingredients you will need

Water

Equipment you will use

Frying Pan

Add soba and stir occasionally until barely tender to bite, 5 to 7 minutes.

Drain, rinse with cold water until cool, and drain again thoroughly.

Ingredients you will need

Water

Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix wasabi powder with 1 tablespoon cold water; let stand about 5 minutes.

Ingredients you will need

Wasabi Powder

Water

Equipment you will use

Bowl

Add soy sauce and lemon juice.

Ingredients you will need

Lemon Juice

Soy Sauce

In a large bowl, mix spinach with 2 tablespoons of the wasabi dressing. Divide spinach among dinner plates.

Ingredients you will need

Spinach

Wasabi

Equipment you will use

Bowl

Add noodles, green onions, and remaining dressing to bowl; mix gently. Mound equally on spinach and top with equal portions of shrimp and ginger.

Ingredients you will need

Green Onions

Pasta

Spinach

Ginger

Shrimp

Equipment you will use

Bowl

Four types of noodles: Look for dried Asian noodles in the international section of the supermarket or in an Asian market.

Ingredients you will need

Pasta

Bean threads (saifun or cellophane noodles). Thin, wiry dried noodles, made from the starch of mung beans, turn clear and slippery when cooked in water or puffy and crisp when deep-fried. Neutral flavor.

Ingredients you will need

Cellophane Noodles

Mung Beans

Pasta

Starch

Water

Rice noodles (rice sticks, mai fun, mi fun). Dried white noodles, made from rice flour, vary from whisker-thin to about 1/4 inch wide. When cooked in water, they turn opaque and tender; when fried, they puff and crisp. Mild rice flavor.

Ingredients you will need

Rice Noodles

Rice Flour

Pasta

Water

Rice

Soba. Buckwheat and wheat flour infuse thin, tan Japanese noodles with robust, earthy flavor.

Ingredients you will need

Wheat Flour

Buckwheat

Pasta

Wheat noodles (Chinese noodles or Oriental noodles, mein). Available in many forms, these all-purpose noodles taste similar to spaghetti and go by many names.

Ingredients you will need

Spaghetti