7 Great Chilled Noodle Recipes For Summer Slideshow

I've seen all kinds of creative soba noodle recipes in the U.S., but in Japan soba noodles are served either simply chilled with a dipping sauce or in hot broth as a noodle soup, similar to how we prepare Japanese udon noodle soup...

— Namiko Chen

Click here to see the Zaru Soba Recipe.

Just about everyone loves sesame noodle salad, including me. This delicious version improves on the traditional one because it uses a mixture of creamy peanut butter and sesame oil in place of the customary sesame paste...

— Ming Tsai

Click here to see the Sesame Chicken Cucumber Noodle Salad Recipe.

Surprisingly, the biggest caloric issue with sesame noodles is often not the sesame oil or the peanut butter... it's the actual noodles. So here's how I solve this quandary...

— Jackie Newgent

Click here to see the Sesame Soba Noodle Salad Recipe.

You get the toothsome tug of the buckwheat noodles combined with the sourness of the tamarind, the sweetness of the pineapple, and the hotness of the gochujang paste...

— Angelo Sosa

Click here to see the Chilled Buckwheat Noodles with Hot-Sour Tamarind Broth Recipe.

Bibim guksu is a cold noodle dish that is usually made with thin wheat flour noodles (somyeon) or buckwheat noodles (memil guksu)...

— Hyosun Ro

Click here to see the Bibim Guksu (Korean Spicy Cold Noodles) Recipe.

This salad is made with skirt steak, romaine lettuce, radicchio, mango, blue cheese, fried noodles, and a ginger peanut soy vinaigrette...

— Andrea Volpi

Click here to see the Thai Steak Salad with Cold Noodles Recipe.

This is probably one of the easiest recipes you'll find for a bowl of cool, refreshing chilled noodles.

Click here to see the Cold Noodles with Greek Yogurt-Sesame Sauce Recipe.