Japanese Recipe – Hiyashi Chuka

  If you have chance to visit Japan in summer, do remember to look for this Japanese cold noodle salad dish, Hiyashi Chuka(冷やし中華）。Hiyashi Chuka is a cold noodle salad that very popular serve in most Japan restaurant during summer time. It consist of chukamen(raw ramen) with lot of toppings such as thin fried egg strips, ham, cucumber, carrot and others. There are two main flavor of dressing, soy sauce flavor and sesame flavor. You can get the tare dressing which comes together with Hiyashi Chuka package from japanese grocery stores . With this free quick easy recipes or cold ramen salad recipe, sure it will cool you down and appetizing you in a hot summer. Another Pro for this japanese recipe is low in calories, very suitable for diet.

Ingredients:(4 serving)

For Toppings:
cooked ham cut into long thin strips
boiled chicken breasts thin strips
thin omelette’s strips
thin cucumber strips
thin carrot strips
sliced tomato
pickled red ginger (beni shoga, in little strips) 

Soy Sauce flavor dressing
1/3 cup water
3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
2 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp sesame oil

Sesame flavor dressing
1/3 cup water
5 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
3 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp sesame seeds
1 tsp sesame oil

Preparations:
Boil the noodles ramen, wash with cold water (cool water with ice). Drain and put in a plate. Arrange the different colors topping well to make the dish more attractive and nice to eat. Pour dressing onto it before eat.