Kurumi Soba
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Kurumi Soba, Komoro city, Nagano
Kurumi Soba “Walnut soba” is a Japanese soba dish that is served by adding crushed walnuts to the Tsuyu – Soba sauce, a kind of soup – of cold soba called “zaru soba” or “Mori Soba”.
Soba with walnut sauce. Soba eaten with walnut sauce.
It is known as one of the local Shinshu soba dishes.
In many cases, restaurants serve walnuts in a small mortar and pestle, and customers crush the walnuts themselves and add them to the soba sauce.
There are also restaurants that serve grated or paste-like walnuts in a small bowl, add the desired amount of sauce to make “walnut soup” and eat with soba.
There are also restaurants that mix crushed walnuts with sugar and soba sauce to make “walnut sauce” and serve it with zaru soba (mori soba).
Additionally, in Tomi city, Nagano, it is eaten by mixing walnut miso (a mixture of crushed walnuts and sugar) with Sobayu -the hot water that the soba was boiled in – and dipping soba noodles in it.
It is said to have originated in Komoro, Nagano Prefecture, but there are various theories, and “walnut soba” is also eaten in the Chichibu region of Saitama Prefecture.
Kurumi Soba signboard in “Uminojuku” in Nagano Prefecture
