Are you a pasta lover? I know many of you are but finding a pasta recipe for healthy living can be, well, next to impossible! Introducing soba noodles?
What noodles? Hehe…yea, I’m not speaking in tongues here. Soba noodles have been around for centuries and when the hunger for pasta strikes they deliver on all points of taste, texture and nutrition unlike may so called “healthy pastas” on the market. So today, I can with clear conscious for your ultimate well being offer you the best pasta recipe for healthy living!
Buckwheat is the main ingredient of soba, is a primitive grain that is rarely eaten in the United States. However, buckwheat is the best, and in some cases the only, source of some crucial elements that are vital to the healthy functioning of cells and enzymes. Now, when you think about it, those are rather important components of health don’t you agree?
But there is even more to buckwheat and one is that it is uniquely rich in proteins and the essential amino acid lysine which is lacking in most modern cereal grains. Buckwheat is also abundant in lipids, minerals that include iron, phosphorus and copper and vitaminsB1 and B2.
And if that was not enough, buckwheat is very high in rutin which is an essential nutrient that is not found in other grains, such as rice and wheat, or even beans. Rutin increases capillary strength thus improving high blood pressure.
Choline, is yet another important micro-nutrient found in buckwheat that regulates blood pressure and liver function.
And when buckwheat becomes soba noodles, a centuries old staple in Japanese culture, it is proven helpful in reducing cholesterol and stimulate the intestines to promote bowel movement. The regular consumption of high protein soba has also been associated with reduction in body fat.
So, I can’t think of a single reason why you should not include soba noodle into you nutritional strategy! They are a recipe for healthy living that you will enjoy!
And speaking of recipes, here is a great one for you to begin you journey to soba noodle health!
Soba Noodle Chicken Salad
• 1 package soba/buckwheat noodles
• drizzle of untoasted sesame oil
• 8 snow peas
• 1 small carrot
• ½ red chili
• 1 tbsp toasted black and white sesame seeds
• handful shredded cooked chicken
• shoyu soy sauce
Cook the noodles until tender, drain well, then toss with a drizzle sesame oil.
Finely slice the snow peas, cut the carrot into matchsticks and de-seed and slice the red chili.
Toss the veggies with the noodles, toasted sesame seeds and shredded chicken. Pack with a small portion of shoyu soy sauce.
So, now that you’ve learned about one of my favorite ingredients in a recipe for healthy living, it is time to go shopping! And when you make this recipe, I want to know how much you enjoyed it! Deal?
~ Carl
Carl Mason is a Wellness and Weight Loss Specialist, Author, Fitness Coach, and a Leader in Creating a Lifestyle of Wellness.
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Yes indeed, will have to go shopping to find the Soba Noodles! I wonder if we’ll get them here, in Jaipur! 😛
Looks tempting for sure! 🙂
Shilpa Garg recently posted..My Post on Parentous
Hope you can find them!! THey surely are good 🙂
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Just as Shilpa mentioned, will have to go shop hunting for Soba noodles now!
Never heard about this variety, though there are various other kinds in the market, and they too say they are made from wheat – wonder how much of that is true!
Speaking of our family, we eat such stuff in moderation to keep a check on our health, because you can never really say if it’s really nutritious as it claims to be. (Talking about the general variety in the market)
Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Harleena Singh recently posted..Do You Love the Life You Live
I hear you! Shop with caution and awareness for sure. But buckwheat and wheat are not the same. Big nutrional difference! These are long standing, pre insdustrial age noodles! 🙂
Carl Mason-Liebenberg recently posted..The Pursuit of Happiness
looks delicious and nutritious! is there a gluten-free soba noodle you recommend? thanks!
Dangerous Linda recently posted..friday moment
Buckwheat is not wheat and it is glutem free unless it has been processed with wheat mills!
Carl Mason-Liebenberg recently posted..The Pursuit of Happiness
I am Ok with whatever ,so long as it is wheat based
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Where do you get these? Isn’t this a noodles recipe? I thought I was going to have a pasta one :). Pasta can be really healthy too. These days one gets whole wheat pasta. Tossed in olive oil and seafood, it makes for a great healthy meal. As a matter of fact, I regularly cook pasta in different styles at home.
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Noodles are pasta, one of many forms pasta takes and made by the very same ingreinets and process! And buckwheat is not wheat and it does contain much higher nutrional value than wheat! 🙂
Carl Mason-Liebenberg recently posted..The Pursuit of Happiness
I’m not familiar with this kind of pasta but I think I could take a look in our groceries if this is available in my country. Or perhaps, I could try the recipe on another kind of pasta.
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