Soba Noodle Salad with Sesame Ginger Soy Vinaigrette

This easy and flavorful Asian-inspired soba noodle salad is perfect with any veggies you have on hand, and can be served cold, warm, or at room temperature.

Soba noodle salad with sesame ginger soy vinaigrette.

I love a good pasta salad, and that doesn’t have to mean the Italian dressed salad that usually first comes to mind. Noodle salads are extremely versatile and are a great way to use up any veggies you have left in your fridge! My Soba Noodle Salad with Sesame Ginger Soy Vinaigrette can be served either hot or cold, and is a great option for make ahead lunches, or for entertaining!

Ingredients:

  • For the salad: soba noodles, green beans, grated carrot, scallions (green onions), and black roasted sesame seeds.
  • For the vinaigrette: lime juice, soy sauce, sugar, grated ginger, sesame oil, and chili paste (optional for a kick of heat).

How to Make Soba Noodle Salad with Sesame Ginger Soy Vinaigrette

Adding green beans to soba noodles

Start your soba noodle salad by cooking your soba noodles in salted water. Add the cut green beans for the last couple of minutes.

Straining pasta and green beans

Then strain the noodles and green beans, making sure you rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process and keep the green beans from overcooking. Set aside.

Stirring in soy sauce

Then in a medium to large measuring cup, add the soy sauce and lime juice.

Adding lime juice

Next add the sesame oil.

Grating ginger

Then use a microplane to grate fresh ginger into the vinaigrette.

Adding sugar to sauce

Then add the sugar.

Adding chili paste

Finish with the chili paste. If you don’t like spicy food, you can skip this step.

Whisking vinaigrette

Whisk the vinaigrette together until the sugar has fully dissolved.

Adding fresh scallions

Then in a large bowl, put in your noodles, green beans, grated carrots, and chopped scallions.

Pouring sauce over noodle salad

Pour the sesame ginger soy vinaigrette over the top of the noodle salad.

Tossing soba noodle salad

Toss well until evenly coated, seasoning with salt and pepper as needed.

Forkful of soba noodle salad.

Finish your soba noodle salad with the black roasted sesame seeds before serving either hot or cold, whatever you prefer!

Change It Up

  • Make it gluten-free. Soba noodles are already gluten free, so just make sure your soy sauce is gluten free (like tamari brand), and this dish is celiac friendly!
  • Switch up the veggies. Instead of green beans, use broccoli or asparagus! Or add them all together.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Are soba noodles fattening?

No. Soba noodles are lower in carbs than typical pasta, and very low in fat while being a good source of fiber.

Is soba better hot or cold?

Soba is just as good served hot as it is cold. It’s all about your personal preference, or even the weather or temperature outside!

How do you store leftover soba noodles?

Keep it in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days.

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Liz eating soba noodle salad with sesame ginger soy vinaigrette.

I’ve enjoyed my Soba Noodle Salad with Sesame Ginger Soy Vinaigrette both hot and cold, and either way, it’s a great way to get my family to eat a filling, nutritious meal. Let me know how your family likes it in a comment!

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Soba Noodle Salad with Sesame Ginger Soy Vinaigrette

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This easy and flavorful Asian-inspired soba noodle salad is perfect with any veggies you have on hand and can be served cold, warm, or at room temperature.
PREP: 5 minutes
COOK: 10 minutes
TOTAL: 15 minutes
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Servings: 4

Ingredients
 

Noodles

  • 8 ounces Japanese soba noodles
  • 2 cups green beans (trimmed and cut in 2 in. pieces)
  • 1 medium carrot (grated)
  • ½ cup scallions (minced)
  • 2 tablespoons black roasted sesame seeds
  • salt and pepper to taste

Sesame Ginger Soy Vinaigrette

Instructions
 

  • Bring a large pot of salted water to boil and add soba noodles. Cook according to package instructions adding the green beans 2 minutes before the end of cooking time.
  • Drain noodles and green beans in a strainer and rinse with cold water to stop cooking process. (This keeps the beans bright green.)
  • In the bottom of a medium bowl, whisk together the vinaigrette: lime juice, soy sauce, sugar, ginger, sesame oil, and sambal oelek (chili paste).
  • Add the soba noodles and green beans to the bowl with the vinaigrette along with the grated carrot, scallions, and black roasted sesame seeds.
  • Toss well to coat and season with salt and pepper to taste before serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 328kcalCarbohydrates: 57gProtein: 9.5gFat: 8.5gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 7.5gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 32mgFiber: 6.6gSugar: 7.7g

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58 thoughts on “Soba Noodle Salad with Sesame Ginger Soy Vinaigrette”

  1. I definitely see cilantro in a couple of photos but did not see it in the ingredients list. I love fresh cilantro and would have added it if I had any so I used some I had dried before.

    Lovely recipe! I’m making mine with what I have on hand which includes leftover cooked bucatini that I will sub for the soba noodles. Don’t faint! I’m half-Japanese so it’s ok! Lol!

    Our temp is over 100° today so a nice cool salad is perfect. Thanks so much for posting and the inspiration!

    1. Liz DellaCroce

      Yes I’ll add whatever fresh herbs I have in a lot of my recipes, including cilantro! I hope you enjoyed it!

  2. I love this recipe. It has become a new staple in our house. So easy. My 16 year old daughter takes it for lunch at least once a week.

  3. This was AMAZING!!!! It was so fresh, refreshing, and the flavors are beautiful! I doubled the recipe and added shrimp to make it an entree for my family. Love it. Will be a regular dinner!

      1. I made this but only had frozen beans and added the capsicum to stretch it further for four of us and topped it with a seared tuna steak and was absolutely delicious thank you for the inspiration I’ll make this again for sure

        1. Ashley @ The Lemon Bowl

          Hi Heather! Thanks for sharing how it turned out for you! So great to hear this 👍🏼

  4. Very good! Made it tonight. I used Siracha sauce and sweet peas instead and it turned out amazing! Thank you for this recipe! I will definitely make it again.

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