Meera Sodha’s Vegan Recipe For Sweetcorn Hiyashi | The New Vegan

In 2003, I had my first som tam crockery successful Bangkok’s searing 30-degree heat. It was crunchy and packed to nan rafters pinch flavour, but, much importantly, it was cold. Until then, I’d been eating basking nutrient successful basking weather, but ever since I’ve been chasing that cleanable acold summertime meal. These acold hiyashi ramen travel adjacent for me. They’re ludicrously versatile (think crockery positive condiment positive noodles), and nan only “cooking” to beryllium done is boiling nan noodles; nan remainder is chopping, blending (the sauce) and assembling. It is genuinely summertime wherever nan surviving is easy.

Sweetcorn hiyashi

If you person caller maize cobs, boil them for 5 minutes, past drain, cool successful acold h2o and portion nan kernels disconnected nan cob.

Prep 10 min
Cook 35 min
Serves 4

8 outpouring onions (100g), trimmed and washed thoroughly
8 tbsp good-quality neutral oil – I for illustration rapeseed oil
2½ tsp ray soy sauce, positive 1 tbsp other for nan sweetcorn sauce
2 tsp white-wine vinegar
200g sweetcorn kernels, caller (see introduction) aliases frozen
1½ tbsp achromatic miso
1 ail clove, peeled
2cm x 2cm portion caller ginger, peeled and astir chopped
300g dried ramen aliases soba noodles
½ ample cucumber (180g), trim successful half widthways, past finely shredded
100g cherry tomatoes, halved
250g smoked tofu, trim into batons
20g basil leaves, astir torn

Put nan outpouring onions connected a committee and chop, chop, chop nan greens and whites, moving nan weapon complete them complete and complete again to move them into mini fragments. Scrape nan chopped onions into a bowl, adhd 4 tablespoons of nan oil, 2 and a half teaspoons of soy condiment and nan white-wine vinegar, past put to 1 side.

Put 3 quarters (150g) of nan sweetcorn kernels successful a blender, adhd nan miso, garlic, ginger, nan other tablespoonful of soy sauce, nan remaining 4 tablespoons of lipid and 100ml water, and blitz: you’ll request to blend it for rather a while to break down nan fibre of nan sweetcorn.

Cook nan noodles according to nan packet instructions, past drain and rinse nether nan acold pat until cool. Drain really well, past put successful a bowl, adhd nan outpouring bulb operation and flip very good to coat.

Distribute nan noodles betwixt 4 plates aliases shallow bowls. Spoon a 4th of nan sweetcorn condiment to 1 broadside of each portion, and adjacent to it put a 4th of nan cucumber, tomatoes, smoked tofu and nan reserved full maize kernels. Scatter complete nan torn basil leaves and eat.