This quick and easy soba noodle salad is perfect for summer meals, parties, and so much more! Ready in under 30 minutes! You’ll love how much goodness is packed into one bowl!
Pasta salads are a go to in the warmer months, but this easy soba noodle salad is not only great in the summer, but year round as well.
This is another recipe as I explore more about Blue Zones foods and why people who live in these areas are living longer.
By making changes like refined wheat pasta to a healthier alternative like these buckwheat (soba) noodles, and adding in loads of crunchy and healthy vegetables, you are creating a dish that is not only tasty, but great for your body too!
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Why You’ll Love This Dish
- Robust Flavors – While this doesn’t take long to make, the simple ingredients added with the ginger soy dressing are just simply amazing together
- Fast– this makes a large portion of pasta salad in under 30 minutes. Pastas salads are great for coming together so quickly!
- Gluten Free – even though wheat is in the name buckwheat noodles, there’s no gluten in soba noodles, meaning it’s perfect for our gluten free friends
🥘Recipe Ingredients
Gather your ingredients!
- Soba Noodles– These noodles are gluten free, hold up well, have a great source of nutrients, and perfect for a spin on your usual pasta salad
- Vegetables – We are using red cabbage, carrots, green onions for this recipe
- Sauce – We are making a ginger soy dressing with pantry staples that bring the whole dish together
See my recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
Substitutions and Variations:
- Soba Noodles– Feel free to use other long pasta noodles if you wish
- Vegetables – Get creative and add in your favorite vegetables or maybe things you have on had that you need to use up
- Sauce – You could also sub the sauce with as Asian dressing if you’d like this to go faster
- Protein – If you’d like to stretch this even farther consider adding a protein or vegan main substitute like tofu, chickpeas, cauliflower, mushrooms, white beans, or edamame
Step by Step Instructions for vegan easy cold soba noodle salad:
Step 1. Cook your soba noodles according to your packaged instructions. When noodles are done, immediately drain and run under cold water to stop the cooking.
Step 2. While noodles are cooking, add your dressing ingredients to a bowl and combine together well.
Step 3. Add to a large bowl, add the vegetables and stir together. Add the dressing and toss again. Serve immediately or place in fridge to let it come together.
Recipe FAQs:
Yes. Sub the soy sauce for a safe alternative like coconut aminos, no soy soy sauce, tamari, etc. Sub the sesame oil for another oil like grapeseed.
Yes. Once made, you can store in an air tight container in the fridge for 3-4 days.
To be honest this recipe makes a lot of salad. Otherwise, if you truly want to double, you will want to use a larger pot.
We do not recommend freezing this dish.
Other Vegan Healthy Recipes to Consider:
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Soba Noodle Salad
Ingredients
- 9.5 oz soba noodles, uncooked
- 1 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1 cup red cabbage, thinly sliced
- 1 cup carrots, thinly sliced
- 3 scallions, sliced (plus more for garnish)
- seasoned seaweed, optional, for garnish
For Ginger Soy Dressing
- ¼ cup rice vinegar
- 3 ½ tablespoon olive oil
- 3 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1-2 tablespoon agave
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated
Instructions
- Cook the noodles according to the packaged instructions. While waiting to cook, make the dressing.
- When noodles are done, immediately drain and run under cold water to stop the cooking. Add to a large bowl, add the vegetables and stir together. Add the dressing and toss again.
- Serve immediately or can let sit for at least 30 minutes to marinade longer. Top with additional green onions and seaweed if desired.
Pat
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Larisha Bernard
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Isabella Ames
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