Summer time Dinners // Chilly Peanut Noodles • Kath Eats

These chilly peanut noodles are the right summer time dish to make within the morning and luxuriate in within the night! Noodles and veggies come collectively in a savory peanut sauce. 

This time of yr when the solar is out late, so are we!

And once we come house, normally dripping moist and hungry, with pool luggage to unpack and showers to take, dinner is commonly the very last thing I take into consideration. Thus, I’ve been attempting to organize my dinners within the morning. Whereas I’ve finished some easy salad dinners currently and we at all times have Blue Apron on the rotation, I’ve been attempting to make extra chilly salads to eat any time of day. 

Chilly Peanut Noodles

This chilled peanut butter sauced noodle dish is nice for a fast dinner after a day the pool or a summer time night soccer sport. And it’s additionally really easy to pack for a picnic or lunch on the go! Noodles and veggies come collectively in a savory peanut sauce. As per regular, it’s very easy to make. 

Chilly Peanut Noodles Recipe

This chilly spicy peanut dish makes a fantastic picnic meals, because it’s very transportable in a Tupperware and doesn’t must be heated up. 

Elements

• 3 boneless hen breasts
• 3/4 pound dried noodles, reminiscent of entire wheat spaghetti or soba noodles
• 2 cups free packed carrots, inexperienced beans, zucchini (or comparable summertime veggies)

For the sauce

• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 clove/dice garlic, pressed
• 1 tsp contemporary ginger, minced
• 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 1-2 pinches crimson pepper flakes
• 2-3 tbsp contemporary herbs or scallions to style

Directions

Step 1: Prepare dinner the pasta

Start by cooking some pasta. I used entire wheat spaghetti, however soba noodles could be nice too!

Step 2: Blanch any veggies you’re cooking

With two minutes left to go, add in no matter summery greens you want (or cook dinner them with the hen). Choices embody: peppers, zucchini, inexperienced beans, carrots.

Add the cooked pasta and veggies to an enormous bowl for mixing. 

Step 3: Prepare dinner hen on the facet

Whereas the pasta cooks, reduce the hen into one-inch items and brown in a separate pan.

Step 4: Put together the sauce

In the meantime, put together the sauce with the next staples.

Warmth the sauce on low till the whole lot is melted and mixed. You can too use a meals processor to mix the sauce if heating shouldn’t be an possibility. If the sauce is somewhat thick you need to use chilly water to skinny it out only a bit. 

Step 5: Combine the pasta with the sauce and toss properly

Step 6: Add the hen and herbs

Step 7: Chill till able to eat 

And chill till meal time, each time which may be! You can too completely get pleasure from sizzling in case you’d like! Brighten the end with a ultimate squeeze of lime juice!

Recipe Notes

• Should you favor not use peanut butter, different nut butter substitutes work too! Attempt cashew or almond butter. 
• High with a chili garlic sauce like sriracha! 
• Topping concepts: sesame seeds, thinly sliced cabbage, inexperienced onion, crushed peanuts, or crispy onions. 
• Use soba noodles, entire wheat spaghetti or angel hair, or just any pasta you want! 
• As an alternative of hen, attempt shrimp or flaked salmon or hold it vegetarian. 

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