Summer season Dinners // Chilly Peanut Noodles • Kath Eats

These chilly peanut noodles are the proper summer season 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 after we come dwelling, normally dripping moist and hungry, with pool baggage to unpack and showers to take, dinner is commonly the very last thing I take into consideration. Thus, I’ve been making an attempt to arrange my dinners within the morning. Whereas I’ve achieved some easy salad dinners recently and we at all times have Blue Apron on the rotation, I’ve been making an attempt 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 season 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 traditional, it’s very easy to make. 

Chilly Peanut Noodles Recipe

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

Substances

• 3 boneless rooster breasts
• 3/4 pound dried noodles, reminiscent of entire wheat spaghetti or soba noodles
• 2 cups unfastened 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 recent ginger, minced
• 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 1-2 pinches crimson pepper flakes
• 2-3 tbsp recent herbs or scallions to style

Directions

Step 1: Cook 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 might be cooking

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

Add the cooked pasta and veggies to a giant bowl for mixing. 

Step 3: Cook dinner rooster on the facet

Whereas the pasta cooks, reduce the rooster 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 every part is melted and mixed. You can even 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 nicely

Step 6: Add the rooster and herbs

Step 7: Chill till able to eat 

And chill till time for dinner, every time that could be! You can even completely get pleasure from sizzling in the event you’d like! Brighten the end with a ultimate squeeze of lime juice!

Recipe Notes

• If you happen to desire not use peanut butter, different nut butter substitutes work too! Strive 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 a substitute of rooster, attempt shrimp or flaked salmon or maintain it vegetarian. 

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