Japanese sashimi salad

Simple sashimi salad with salmon
Complex sashimi salad with tuna and prawns



This is a very basic recipe, ideal for summer lunches, and can be easily modified by adding additional ingredients to vary or enhance the complexity of the flavours.

Ingredients
  • About half a butter lettuce
  • 250-300g raw salmon or tuna
  • 60g buckwheat soba noodles, snapped in half
  • Kewpie sesame salad dressing
  • 1 teaspoon wasabi
  • 1 tablespoon of sashimi or light soy sauce
Optional extras
  • 200g cooked prawns
  • 2 tablespoons of Japanese seasoned seaweed salad
  • 1 radish, thinly sliced
  • 1 teaspoon pickled ginger
Method
  1. Wash and roughly cut the lettuce - set aside
  2. Cook the soba in boiling water as directed, rinse in cold water and drain - set aside
  3. Dice the raw fish into approximately 2cm cubes
  4. Add the lettuce to a serving bowl
  5. Top the lettuce with the drained soba and lightly dress with Kewpie dressing
  6. Mix the wasabi and soy sauce (quantities can be varied to taste) in a small bowl and add the fish. gently cover the fish with the soy/wasabi mix.
  7. Add the flavoured sliced fish and any additional items on top of the soba salad.
Serves: 2