Sesame Noodle Salad With Spring Onions

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Sesame Noodle Salad With Spring Onions

This warm salad can be prepared and cooked in just a few minutes. If you can't find Chinese sesame paste, use tahini paste instead.

Ingredients

2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
30ml/2 tbsp Chinese sesame paste or tahini paste
15ml/1 tbsp dark sesame oil
30ml/2 tbsp soy sauce
30ml/2 tbsp rice wine
15ml/1 tbsp clear honey
Pinch of five spice powder
350g/12oz soba or buckwheat noodles
4 spring onions, finely sliced diagonally
50g/2oz beansprouts
7.5cm/3in piece of cucumber, cut into matchsticks
Toasted sesame seeds
Salt and black pepper

Details

Serves: 4

Method

Process the garlic, sesame paste, oil, soy sauce, rice wine, honey and five spice powder with a pinch each of salt and pepper in a blender or food processor until smooth.

Cook the noodles in a saucepan of boiling water until just tender, following the directions on the packet. Drain the noodles immediately and tip them into a bowl.

Toss the hot noodles with the dressing and the spring onions. Top with the beansprouts, cucumber and sesame seeds and serve.

Cook’s Tip:- Soba are thin, brownish noodles made from buckwheat flour. They are available from Japanese delicatessens.

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