Toshikoshi "Daikon-noodle" Soba

Toshikoshi "Daikon Noodle" Soba:

"Toshikoshi Soba" is a year-end Japanese tradition. I made a rawfood version of it on a New Year's Eve.

Happy New Year!

...my housemate said the spiralizer looks like a "torture chamber for vegetables." :D


Ingredients:

Spiralized Daikon Radish (for mock-soba noodle in rawfood style)
Chopped green veggie (I used Vietnamese "Cai Ngot"; Spinach would do)
Sliced carrot
Sliced green onions
Shiitake Mushrooms
Sprinkle of white sesame seeds


Broth:

Veggie ends, Shiitake mushrooms...


DIRECTION:

1. Make Daikon Noodle with Spiralizer. (Can use a simple Peeler instead.)  And, cut all the vegetables.

2. Boil water and throw in Shiitake Mushrooms and Veggie ends to make a broth.

3. Once there's enough color in a broth, take out the above. Slice Shiitake Mushrooms.

4. Throw in and soften the Daikon Noodle in the broth. Once soften, take out the noodles and place them in the soup bowl you'd be using to serve.

5. Throw the other veggies in the broth. Wait till they get a little softer than raw and somewhat soaked the broth.  Take them out when it's done.

6. Pour the broth into the soup bowl that has the daikon noodle already in it.

7. Place the other veggies, decorate and sprinkle white sesame seeds to add a little more flavor.

8. Ideally and traditionally, eat it around midnight. Happy New Year!