Mushroom Soba Noodle Bowl

This mushroom soba noodle bowl recipe will turn your humdrum weeknight meal into a woodsy flavor celebration. Cremini mushrooms come together with miso to deliver an earthy umami-rich broth. Meanwhile, buckwheat soba noodles impart a wonderful nutty, chewy texture to each bite.

These easy, naturally gluten-free noodle bowls come together in less than 20 minutes. Plus, clean up is a snap as this simple, savory recipe only requires one pot!

How To Make This Recipe

For this bowl, we’ve opted to go with buckwheat soba noodles. We love soba noodles. Buckwheat imparts a wonderful nutty flavor along with welcome nutritional benefits in this soba noodle bowl recipe.

Soba noodles remain gluten-free as long as you purchase noodles that are actually made from buckwheat. You’ll want to look at the packaging here, as we’ve occasionally found “buckwheat” noodles that combine both wheat and buckwheat flour (which are NOT gluten-free).

We recommend cremini mushrooms in this recipe because they’re readily available, inexpensive, and we love their deep flavor and firm texture. However, we’ve found that oyster, shiitake, and maitake mushrooms also work very well here.

Cabbage adds a little heft, while our miso-vegetable broth blend rounds out the dish. Unlike other soba noodle recipes, we skip the soy sauce as miso provides all of the depth we need. We also like to garnish our bowls with fresh, chopped scallion greens or snap peas.

Prepare Mushroom Miso Broth

We start by sautéing our sliced cremini mushrooms in a saucepan over medium heat. Because we’ll be adding miso and vegetable broth later on, we do not season our mushrooms at this stage. We continue to cook them, stirring occasionally, until they are lightly brown and soft.

Once the mushrooms have browned, we add both our vegetable broth and miso. These umami-rich mushroom and miso flavors infuse as we bring our broth mixture up to a boil.

Boil Soba Noodles

Once our broth blend reaches a boil, we add our sliced cabbage and our soba noodles. We give them a quick stir to make sure all of our noodles go under the broth. We let our noodles cook for somewhere between 5 and 8 minutes, which varies based time prescribed on the noodle packaging.

We’re Ready To Serve

Once noodles are cooked, we’re ready to serve. Divide the mushroom soba into two large soup bowls for serving. Garnish with sliced green onions, if desired.

We’re ready to dig in!

More mushroom recipes:

• Portobello Mushroom Burgers
• Mushroom Tostadas
• Roasted Carrots With Shiitake Mushrooms

 

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