Cold soba and vegetables
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:term:`Easy`, :term:`Vegetarian`, :term:`One pot`

Source: Jingwen

Ingredients
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* :term:`Soba` noodles
* An assortment of vegetables, many work well:

  * :term:`Carrot`
  * :term:`Cucumber`
  * :term:`Spinach`
  * :term:`Snow peas`

* 1 :term:`Egg`, optional

For the sauce:

* 1 or 2 cloves of :term:`Garlic`
* :term:`Honey`
* :term:`Soy sauce`
* :term:`Vinegar`, preferably the Chinese black kind
* :term:`Sesame seeds`, white is best
* Chinese BBQ chilly flakes, if you can find those

Steps
^^^^^

Chop the vegetables into thin strips.
Blanch the spinach, snow peas, or other ones that are not nice to eat raw.

Fry the egg, or prepare any other protein of you choice separately.

For the sauce, mince the garlic very thinly.
Add it to a bowl with 2-3 table spoons of light soy sauce, a table spoon of honey, half a table spoon of vinegar, half a table spoon of some neutral oil, some chilly flakes and the sesame seeds.
Mix well.

Boil the soba according to the package instructions, usually 4 minutes.
Drain it, then run it under cold water in a colander until it feels cold.

Assemble your bowl, place the soba, vegetables around, egg in the center, and drip the sauce on top.
Enjoy your garlic breath afterwards.