I've had the wildest craving for noodles lately. We have both been making ramen soup and also a tofu noodle recipe from our next book. And last week I had an aubergine left from another job and made this quick dish for lunch. While the aubergine was frying and the noodles were cooking, I had just enough time to stir together the dressing.

The dressing makes the dish, it has a good amount of ginger to give it a fresh punch – and sesame oil, miso and tamari to make it umami rich. It's an excellent quick lunch or dinner with the soft and flavorful aubergine, crunchy broccoli, earthy buckwheat noodles and chili for heat.

I posted a photo on instagram and had 394 comments from people who wanted the recipe. So, here it is. I thought it could be fun to do this as a Lunch Therapy cookalong this Wednesday. So if you follow me on instagram (

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Hope you like it. Tag me in a photo if you make it. Or make it together with me for

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