🇯🇵 Japanese

Octopus Soba

Name: Octopus Soba
Prep time: 12 min
Cook time: 2 min
Total time: 14 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: to taste Salt; 3 cloves, minced Ginger; 3, sliced Spring Onions; 2 tbsp Soy Sauce; 250 g Noodles; 2 tbsp Neutral Oil; 400 g, tentacles Octopus; 2 sheets Nori Seaweed; 250 g Soba Noodles; 4 tbsp Mentsuyu Sauce

🇯🇵 Japanese

Slurpable noodles tossed with octopus and a bold sauce — fast, glossy and wildly satisfying. 14 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 12 min Cook 2 min Serves 2 Easy

Ingredients

Saltto taste
Ginger3 cloves, minced
Spring Onions3, sliced
Soy Sauce2 tbsp
Noodles250 g
Neutral Oil2 tbsp
Octopus400 g, tentacles
Nori Seaweed2 sheets
Soba Noodles250 g
Mentsuyu Sauce4 tbsp

Optional extras

Shiso Leaveshandful, to finish

Instructions

1
Boil the noodles a minute shy of the packet time, drain, and toss with a splash of the Neutral Oil so they don't clump.
2
Heat the rest of the Neutral Oil in a wok until it shimmers, then flash the garlic for a few seconds.
3
Add the octopus and cook until just done, then splash in the soy sauce.
4
Slide the noodles in and toss vigorously for 60 seconds so every strand picks up the sauce.
5
Finish off the heat with spring onions and nori seaweed.

Chef's tip

A final squeeze of rice vinegar just before serving lifts every other flavour.

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Watch how it's made

Video: Baby octopus with soba noodles - Silent Cooking with Simon Xie Hong (with recipe) · on YouTube