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      Title: Chilled Japanese Soba with Dipping Sauce
 Categories: Appetizers, Japanese, Sauces, Noodles, Anchovies
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      7 oz Japanese buckwheat noodles
      1 tb Fresh ginger; grated
      3    Scallions; thinly sliced
    1/2 ts Anchovy paste
    1/2 c  Soy sauce
    1/2 c  Mirin or dry sherry
      2 tb Rice vinegar
      1 pn Sugar
      1 pn Salt
    1/4 c  Carrot; finely julienned
      1    Sheet nori
 
  Bring a saucepan of water to a boil and cook the Buckwheat noodles
  a few minutes. Drain and refresh under cold running water. Hold
  noodles in a bowl with cold water until ready to serve.
  
  Mix ginger, scallion and anchovy paste and set aside. In a small
  saucepan bring soy sauce, Mirin and vinegar to taste, to a boil.
  Mix this warm liquid into ginger, scallion and anchovy paste and
  season to taste with sugar, salt and pepper. Transfer this to
  4 small dipping bowls.
  
  Drain noodles and portion out into 4 small bowls; top each portion
  with some julienned carrot.
  
  Toast sheet of Nori over an electric burner or place in a hot cast
  iron or heavy skillet and cook until crisp and crumble it over the
  soba and carrot. Dip noodles in sauce, and enjoy.
  
  Recipe by: Monday To Friday Show

  Typed by: Gail Shermeyer
 
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