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Japanese noodles with cucumber

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Difficulty:
easy
Preparation:
15 min.
Preparation
ready in 25 mins
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This Asian-inspired recipe has just a few ingredients but is packed with flavor and some important nutrients thanks to the cucumbers and soba noodles, which contain buckwheat.

If you don't have soba noodles, feel free to substitute with chow mein noodles.

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Ingredients

for
4
Ingredients
12 ozs Soba Noodles
soy sauce
4 Tbsps sesame oil
4 Tbsps Sesame seeds
1 Cucumber (peeled, halved lengthways, thinly sliced)
¼ cup Rice vinegar
1 pinch brown sugar
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Preparation steps

1.
Boil the soba noodles in water with 2 tbsp soy sauce. Drain and mix with a little sesame oil. Leave until lukewarm.
2.
Roast the sesame seeds in a hot pan until golden brown. Remove from the pan and let cool.
3.
Mix the vinegar and sugar with 3-4 tbsp water and the remaining oil and season with soy sauce.
4.
Mix in the cucumber and noodles and serve in small bowls.
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