This is serious soup. For hungry diners, with lots of veggies! It reminds me of the fare at a ramen place we love in the West End… except instead of ramen noodles, healthy buckwheat soba noodles are the star of the show.

Soba is actually the Japanese word for buckwheat, but usually refers to buckwheat noodles. These soba noodles are made with just organic buckwheat flour and sweet potato. What a fantastic combo – and a great gluten-free noodle option!

I found them at my fave grocery store, the East End Food Co-op in Vancouver. This is the first time I’ve seen them there, but I’ll be back for more. This brand, King Soba, carries all sorts of different flavour combinations, and the best part to me – they don’t contain wheat. At our neighbourhood Japanese specialty store, many of the soba noodles contain wheat flour as a binder, but I was looking for something gluten-free. Typically the noodles with a high buckwheat percentage and no wheat or rice flour are harder to find, and more expensive, so you can imagine my excitement at finding these at the Co-op!