Roasted Salmon with Soba Noodles and Cucumber Salad | Tante Marie's Kitchen

Ingredients

• 2-inch piece of ginger, unpeeled and thinly sliced
• 8 whole star anise
• 1/2 cup light soy sauce
• 1 tsp. light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup sesame oil
• 8-4 oz. pieces of salmon filet
• 1 oz. dried seaweed — arame, hijiki, or fine wakame
• 1 bunch cilantro leaves
• 1 large English cucumber, peeled, seeded and julienned
• 1/2 cup rice vinegar
• 2 tsp. sugar
• 10 oz. dried soba noodles
• 1/4 sesame oil
• 3 Tbs. rice vinegar
• 5 scallions, green and white part, finely sliced on the diagonal
• coarse salt to taste