Summer time Dinners // Chilly Peanut Noodles • Kath Eats

These chilly peanut noodles are the right 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 once we come house, 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 attempting to organize my dinners within the morning. Whereas I’ve accomplished some easy salad dinners currently and we all the time 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 season night soccer recreation. 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 typical, it’s very easy to make. 

Chilly Peanut Noodles Recipe

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

Elements

• 3 boneless hen breasts
• 3/4 pound dried noodles, resembling complete wheat spaghetti or soba noodles
• 2 cups unfastened packed carrots, inexperienced beans, zucchini (or related 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 purple 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 complete 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 prepare dinner them with the hen). Choices embrace: peppers, zucchini, inexperienced beans, carrots.

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

Step 3: Cook dinner hen on the facet

Whereas the pasta cooks, lower 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 even use a meals processor to mix the sauce if heating will not be an possibility. If the sauce is somewhat thick you should 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 hen and herbs

Step 7: Chill till able to eat 

And chill till supper time, each time that could be! You can even completely get pleasure from scorching in case you’d like! Brighten the end with a ultimate squeeze of lime juice!

Recipe Notes

• In the event you choose 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, complete wheat spaghetti or angel hair, or just any pasta you want! 
• As an alternative of hen, strive shrimp or flaked salmon or preserve it vegetarian. 

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