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Refreshing Chilled Soba Noodles with Cucumbers & Radishes One-Pot Recipe

This refreshing one-pot recipe features chewy soba noodles tossed in a miso-based dressing, accompanied by fresh cucumbers, snow peas, and radishes for a crunchy contrast.
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Total Time 45 minutes
Course Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine Asian, Japanese
Servings 4

Equipment

  • 6 quarts dutch oven

Ingredients
  

For the Dressing:

  • 3 tablespoons white miso or substitute yellow, red, or brown miso
  • 3 tablespoons mirin
  • 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
  • 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
  • 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
  • 1 –2 dried arbol chiles stemmed and minced (or substitute ¼ to ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes)

For the Noodles & Vegetables:

  • 8 ounces dried soba noodles
  • ½ English cucumber quartered lengthwise, seeded, and sliced thin on a bias
  • 4 ounces snow peas strings removed, cut lengthwise into matchsticks
  • 4 radishes trimmed, halved, and sliced thin
  • 3 scallions sliced thin on a bias
  • 1 8-inch-square sheet nori, toasted and cut into 2-inch-long matchsticks (optional)

Instructions
 

  • In a large bowl, whisk together the miso, mirin, sesame oil, sesame seeds, grated ginger, and arbol chiles with 1 tablespoon of water until smooth.
  • In a large Dutch oven (6-quart capacity), bring 4 quarts of water to a boil. Add the soba noodles and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender but still chewy. Drain noodles and rinse under cold running water until fully chilled. Drain well and transfer to the bowl with the dressing.
  • Add the sliced cucumber, snow peas, radishes, scallions, and optional nori to the bowl. Toss everything together until well combined.
  • Taste and season with salt as needed. Serve immediately.
Keyword cold soba recipe, easy chilled noodle dish, light summer meals, miso dressing noodles, one-pot Asian noodles, simple Japanese one-pot meal, soba noodle salad
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