Spicy Peanut Sauce Noodle Bowl (2024)

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Spicy Peanut Sauce Noodle Bowl

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An easy recipe to have in your back pocket for a quick dinner. This spicy peanut sauce pairs perfectly with noodles, grains, and vegetables.

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Yield: 2 servings 1x
Category: Main Course

Ingredients

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Sauce

2 tablespoons peanut butter
2 tablespoons soy sauce or tamari
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 clove garlic (minced)
1 teaspoon fresh minced ginger
1 teaspoon honey (or your favorite vegan sweetener)
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
¼ to ½ cup water

Noodles

4 oz brown rice noodles
1 teaspoon sesame oil

Vegetables

1 tablespoon olive oil
4 to 6 scallions (diced)
4 cups assorted vegetables (cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, and/or spinach.)

Toppings

Extra scallion greens
Cilantro
Toasted Sesame Seeds or Peanuts
Bean Sprouts

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Instructions

Combine all ingredients for the sauce, except the water. Stir until well combined and add just enough water to thin the sauce down so that it’s pourable. Set aside.
Cook rice noodles according to the package. Drain, rinse, and toss with sesame oil. Set aside.
Heat a wok or skillet over medium heat. Add the olive oil followed by the scallions. Cook for a couple minutes, just until they start to soften. Add the heartier vegetables, like cauliflower and broccoli, cook until tender. If using greens, add towards the end of cooking.
Place noodles in a bowl and add the cooked vegetables followed by the sauce. Alternatively, you can add the sauce to the pan with the vegetables to heat the sauce. Top with cilantro, toasted sesame seeds, and scallion greens if desired.

Notes

Tips & Tricks: This recipe is very forgiving. Use what you have on hand whether that means swapping out ingredients in the sauce, noodles, or vegetables.

Stock up: get the pantry ingredients you will need: rice noodles, peanut butter, soy sauce

Nutrition: see the information.

Nutrition

Calories: 429
Sugar: 6.1
Sodium: 1040
Fat: 18
Carbohydrates: 59.2
Fiber: 4.3
Protein: 10.8

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variations

This peanut sauce bowl is the perfect example of an equation meal. The actual recipe isn't that important. It's more about the components you can switch depending on the items you might have on hand. Change out the noodles, the sauce base, and vegetables- it will still turn out well. A few of my favorite combinations include roasted broccoli with tahini sauce over quinoa or grilled zucchini with almond butter sauce over soba noodles.

Noodles: I like the rice noodles because it makes this recipe gluten-free. However, I’ve made this with udon, soba, and ramen before- it’s hard to go wrong with such an easy sauce. Don't want to use noodles? Brown rice or quinoa would work as well.

Sauce: Tahini, sunflower butter, or almond butter make a nice alternative to peanut butter.

Vegetables: I like to go by seasons when choosing vegetables for this bowl. During the fall and winter, a mix of kale, chard, and spinach is nice along with broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots. During the spring, asparagus is the star followed by snap and snow peas. For summer, it’s all about the summer squash!

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6 comments on “Spicy Peanut Sauce Noodle Bowl”

I always choose peanut butter, even if it gets a bad rap, because I just love it so much more than "healthier" nut/seed butters. And I particularly love peanut sauce. What a great building block recipe.
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Peanut sauce is the BEST!!! It makes even the most simple dish so filling. I love that about it! I agree with Stacy from Pop Kitchen. Gotta stick with PB. I have subbed almond butter in these types of sauces before and the milder flavor really didn't pop quite like the PB. Its an oldie but a goodie;)
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Is this an updated version? I feel like I had bookmarked it and the sauce measurements are different as it does not have the same consistency nor taste. I have tried adjusting after the fact but just isn't the same. Please help, thanks!
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1. Hi Heather! It is a slightly updated version! You can find the old version here:https://web.archive.org/web/20160215182715/https://naturallyella.com/spicy-peanut-sauce-with-brown-rice-noodles-and-veggies
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Fabulous recipes ,thank you very much
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I loved this recipe! I doubled the recipe because I'm feeding 4 with the hopes of leftovers 🙂 It's fairly quick and you're right; it's super forgiving no matter the modifications. My family loved it! I used spaghetti noodles instead of rice because that's what I had, broccoli, & spinach! I think due to the noodles being so dense I needed more sauce than s small pour on top. Other than that simply EXCELLENT! This is definitely a staple in my vegan repertoire. thank you!
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