Craving a homemade Kake Soba recipe? Making this Japanese favorite is a breeze with my simple steps. Treat yourself to a delightful bowl of noodle soup right in your home!
Kake Soba is the simplest noodle dish made by pouring hot savory broth over boiled soba noodles and adding toppings. It's a popular quick lunch menu for the on-the-go. I'll walk you through the simple process, from selecting ingredients to the finishing touch, so you can easily enjoy it at home!
- This recipe is for you if:
- You love Japanese soba noodles.
- You want to make simple soba noodle soup.
- You are looking for kake soba recipe.
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About This Recipe
- Authentic Japanese soba noodle recipe
- Use homemade mentsuyu
- Vegan adaptable
- Variations for the toppings
📋 Ingredients
Here are the ingredients (amounts are in the recipe card below).
- Soba noodles - Soba noodles are popular Japanese noodles made by kneading buckwheat flour with water, stretching it out thinly, and cutting it into thin strips. Dried, fresh, or frozen soba noodles are available at grocery stores. I use fresh soba noodles in this recipe.
- Mentusyu is an authentic noodle soup made from scratch with katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes), kombu (kelp), mirin, and soy sauce. See this homemade mentsuyu recipe. If you're looking to save time, you can pick up store-bought mentsuyu at your local Japanese grocery store.
- Scallion and dried wakame seaweed for the toppings. If you want to explore the variations, check out the topping section and find more options!
🔪Instructions
Let's go over how to make this kake soba noodle soup.
1. Place the dried wakame in a small bowl and let it soak for about 5 minutes. Drain the seaweed completely. Finely chop the scallion.
2. Put mentsuyu and water in a medium saucepan and warm it up.
3. While warming the soup, add the soba noodles to a separate pot of boiling water and cook according to the package instructions. Stir the noodles with chopsticks to separate them while cooking.
4. Drain using a strainer and quickly rinse under running cold water to remove the extra starch.
5. Serve the drained noodles in a bowl.
6. Pour the soup, and place the scallions and wakame on top.
Serve
Here you go! Once it's served, please eat immediately. Otherwise, the soba noodles soak up the soup and become soggy. If you like a little spice, sprinkle with shichimi togarashi (Japanese spice blend) and enjoy!
Helpful tips
- Adjusting Soup Seasoning: If your noodle soup is too salty, you can balance it by diluting it with water. Conversely, if it's too mild, add more mentsuyu to enhance the flavor.
- Soba noodles typically take a couple of minutes to cook frozen noodles and around 10 minutes or more for dried or fresh noodles. The cooking time can vary depending on the type and brand of soba noodles, so please follow the package directions.
Topping Variations
This is the fun part! Various ingredients go well with Kake soba. I have listed the classic and popular toppings that are easy to prepare.
- Green onions or Scallion
- Wakame Seaweed
- Kamaboko fish cake - A type of fish cake.
- Onsen Tamago - A half-boiled egg. Place eggs in boiled water and leave for 15-20 minutes to cook slowly.
- Agedama (tenkasu) - Pieces of tempura batter.
- Spinach - Boil for 1 minute.
- Tororo Kombu - Flakes of kombu seaweed.
- Aburaage - Thin deep-fried tofu. Bake on both sides with a toaster to make it crispy.
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📖 Recipe
Kake Soba (Authentic Japanese Soba Noodle Soup)
Print Pin SaveEquipment
- 1 Medium saucepan 18 cm/7 inches
- 1 Strainer
Ingredients
- 2 servings Soba Noodles
- 1 tablespoon Dried Wakame Seaweed
- ¼ Scallion
- 600 ml Homemade Mentsuyu
- 200 ml Water
Instructions
- Prepare the toppings: Place the dried wakame in a small bowl and let it soak for about 5 minutes. Drain the seaweed completely. Finely chop the scallion.
- Make the soba soup: Put mentsuyu and water in a mediium saucepan and warm it up.
- Boil the soba noodles: While warming the soup, add the soba noodles to a separate pot of boiling water and cook according to the package instructions. Stir the noodles with chopsticks to separate them while cooking.
- Drain the noodles: Drain using a strainer and quickly rinse under running cold water to remove the extra starch.
- Serve: Serve the drained noodles in a bowl, pour the soup, and place the scallions and wakame on top.
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Notes
- If your noodle soup is too salty, you can balance it by diluting it with water. Conversely, if it's too mild, add more mentsuyu to enhance the flavor.
- Soba noodles typically take a couple of minutes to cook frozen noodles and around 10 minutes or more for dried or fresh noodles. The cooking time can vary depending on the type and brand of soba noodles, so please follow the package directions.
Laura
Delicious flavored broth. Best basic Japanese Ramen recipe I have found.
JURI
Thanks for your comment, Laura! I'm glad you love the recipe!
Wayne
Thank you Chef Ja, my first visit to your website. I found your recipe very useful especially suggestions for condiments.
Yoroshiku, Wayne
JURI
Thank you for visiting! Glad you like the recipe.