Summer Vegetable Soba

Brit and I used to make a soba noodle dish with asparagus, garlic, prosciutto, parmesan cheese and a fried egg. It was incredible. We made this dish several times until one time the leftover soba noodles tasted like ass. It was just awful. I had a suspicion it occurred because we had purchased a new brand of soba noodles and that the original brand would be fine. Nonetheless, Brit had lost her desire to eat this dish.

Recently, I came across a recipe in on of the food blogs that I follow that utilized soba noodles again. I've been craving/missing soba noodles for a while, so I approached Brit about giving the recipe a try. Brit agreed to give it a try with the original brand of soba noodles and we're all crossing our fingers that the leftovers turn out well.

Summer Vegetable Soba
(Originally posted on the Macheesmo food blog)

Serves 4

1 12 oz package of soba, cooked according to package
1-2 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp olive oil
1-2 cups green beans
1 onion, diced
2 ears corn, corn removed from cob
1 red pepper, diced
1/2 cup carrots, shredded
2 scallions, only greens
Fresh basil, chopped
Peanuts, chopped
Sauce: 2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp mirin
1 jalapeno pepper, minced without seeds
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 inches ginger, minced

Cook the soba noodles according to package directions, drain, and return to pot. Toss with the sesame oil and set aside.
Mix all of the ingredients for the sauce and set aside.
Meanwhile, saute the onion, pepper, green beans, and corn in the olive oil over high heat for just a few minutes so that the veggies stay crunchy. Mix in the sauce and saute 1-2 minutes until the sauce is very fragrant. Mix in the carrots and then transfer all of the ingredients to the pot with the soba noodles. Mix in the scallions and stir it all together very well.
Garnish with basil and peanuts and enjoy.

This meal turned out really, really well. The vegetables were fantastic and the soba noodles are a very flavorful pasta. We felt like there wasn't any heat coming from the jalapeno so we'd consider adding some of the seeds into the sauce. We also felt like there wasn't enough sauce so we had to season our dish with some extra soy sauce and pepper. For future preparations we would double the sauce portion.