Protein Packed Soba Noodles
This recipe combines the perfect ingredients to make soba noodles extra tasty and healthy, especially due to the addition of mung beans! It’s naturally protein-rich, nut free, refined sugar-free, eggless, gluten free, and tastes better than many soba noodles I have tried at restaurants!
Flavor is beyond tasty! A great addition to your evening cooking.
Soba Noodles
Protein Packed Soba Noodles
While I generally prefer to use a good chickpea or lentil pasta, this time I decided to use soba noodles and create a much healthier (and yummy!) version of this dish. I love this recipe because it’s:
Healthier than most soba noodle recipes I’ve seen.
Easy to make.
So tasty!
Ingredients are mostly whole foods.
It provides enough protein to use it as a post-workout meal.
Simple Ingredients
Soba noodles
Cooked mung beans
Carrots
Broccoli florets
Green beans
Garlic cloves
Soy sauce
Sesame paste
Sesame oil
Sesame seeds
Sesame paste has one ingredient; toasted sesame seeds, which provides an amazing nutty flavor to this recipe.
Sesame oil: I use a cold pressed sesame oil for this recipe.
How to Make Protein Packed Soba Noodles?
You need two pots for this recipe.
In a small pot, boil water and cook the noodles for a bit less time than the recommendation to leave them al dente.
In a large pot, add the sesame oil and sauté the veggies.
Add the beans, water, sesame paste, and soy sauce and cook for another 5 minutes.
Turn it off, add the cooked soba noodles, stir, top with sesame seeds, and serve!
These Protein Packed Soba Noodles Are
Gluten free
Egg-free
Nut free
Dairy-free (without butter)
Healthier than most soba noodle recipes I’ve seen
Refined sugar-free
Easy to make