How to Make Totoro Soba · i am a food blog

It’s Totoro week and I’m hot with Totoro Soba! Each year, around Halloween, I like to take a week to indulge in my crazy self and make food that looks like Totoro. I did Totoro Sushi,, Totoro cookies,, Bagels TotoroAnd now I’m here with Totoro Soba.

Totoro Soba is definitely one thing on the internet. I saw a lot so I thought I would try myself too. If you are a fan of Soba and Totoro, I hope you try this because it is one of the foods on the theme of the easiest Totoro I have ever done.

Essentially, this dish is a vision of Zaru Soba, a dish of cold Japanese noodles which consists of Soba (of course) and a soy -based dipped sauce called Tsuyu. When you get Zaru Soba in Japan, they generally serve it on a small bamboo colander, with a bowl of Tsuyu to dive, as well as additional condiments for flavor, such as green onions, wasabi and algae.

I was not a big fan of Soba, but after our last trip to Japan, I realized that I had not just eaten Soba. The good Soba is crazy and firm and therefore, so delicious. This is the kind of simple meal that is so incredibly satisfactory.

And it’s even more satisfactory when the Soba is available in a pretty little Totoro. To do it, I start by cutting its characteristics of the face and belly from cheese and nori. From there, it is just a question of cooking the Soba (I used a typical darker soba as well as white soba) then by shaping the noodles in Totoro shape and adding its face and its furs to the chest.

Another advice for you: if you want to eat soba like do in Japan, do not throw the water in which the Soba has cooked! This is called Sobayu and after finishing eating the Soba, you pour it into your bowl of soaked sauce to make a soup to finish your meal. Sobayu is super nutritious and I would go so far as to say that if you don’t have it, you don’t really have Zaru Soba. To save it, simply use a noodle scoop to pick up the Soba in a large sieve or a colander in a net. Leave the hot water soba in the pot and take the soba in the colander towards the sink and rinse the noodles with very cold tap water. You will want to rinse the noodles very completely under running water so that the starchs are washing and the Soba is easy to pick up with chopsticks.

HAPPY TOTORO SOBA-INENING!
Totoro Foods forever,
XOXO Steph

PS – Stay listening for my other Totoro messages this week: a soft Japanese Totoro cheesecake and Totoro marshmallows using marshmallows purchased in stores!

How to do Totoro Soba

Cold Soba noodles with a soy -shaped soy -shaped sauce in a always adorable Totoro.

Preparation time 20 minutes min

Cook time 5 minutes min

Total time 25 minutes min

• mozzarella cheese sliced
• nori
• 1 cup dashi See notes
• 1/4 cup I am sauce
• 1 pack Regular soba
• 1 pack White soba
• green onions in slices serve
• wasabi If you wish

• Make Totoro’s face: Use a small round cookie cutter to cut Totoro’s eyeballs. Use a punch nori or scissors to cut the eyeballs. Cut strips of nori for mustaches and an oval for its nose. Cut our rafters for her chest hair. Cancel.

• Make the dipped sauce: in a small bowl, mix the dashi, soy sauce and mirin. It should be quite salty. Cancel.

• In two separate pots, cook the Soba according to the instructions of the packaging. Drain, rinse and drain well.

• Use the ordinary Soba and organize in good shape on a plate.

• Use the White Soba to make Totoro belly.

• Add the eyes, nose, mustaches and chest hair.

• Serve with the dipped sauce in a small bowl, trenched green onions, nori and wasabi (if you use). To eat, pick up a pile of soba and immerse yourself in the sauce and slurp. Add the green and nori onions to the bowl of soaking sauce as you wish.

We used Instant dashi For that – it’s super simple, mix the package in 1 cup of hot water.