Spicy Peanut Noodles full of healthy veggies and crunchy peanuts tossed in an addicting homemade peanut sauce. Ready in just 20 minutes and perfect with just about any type of protein you care to serve it with.
I am totally in LOVE with these Thai-style noodles, perfect for a quick and easy meal that tastes just like takeout. Check out my tweaks for a Slimming Friendly version.
You will also love my Satay Chicken Salad
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Looking to spice up your weeknight dinners? Try my quick spicy peanut noodles! I swear once you make this recipe you will be looking for excuses to serve it again and again.
This easy noodle recipe uses everyday ingredients like spaghetti or linguine and transforms them into Asian Spicy Noodles. The secret? A totally addicting spicy peanut sauce that only needs four ingredients.
These noodles happily keep for a couple of days in the fridge and you can serve them cold or quickly stir fry them to serve warm. They are fantastic with leftover roast chicken or even roast beef, shrimp or soy mince.
HOW DO YOU MAKE THAI PEANUT NOODLES?
Cook The Noodles
Making spicy peanut noodles is easy peasy! All you have to do is boil your favourite type of pasta or noodles until al dente. My favourite is wholewheat spaghetti but linguine, soba noodles, rice noodles or even instant ramen work great.
Make the spicy peanut sauce
While the pasta is cooking, combine the ingredients for the sauce in a bowl. I use peanut butter powder, chilli oil (ideally Chiu Chow Chilli Oil) honey and light soy sauce. You can also add garlic paste and a little toasted sesame oil if you have some handy. At the time of writing this recipe (May 2020) certain ingredients were hard to source…
You can easily swap smooth or crunchy peanut butter for the powdered peanut butter and chilli paste, Sriracha or even dried chilli flakes for the spicy element.
Prep The Vegetables
Now for the veggies! You can add whatever you like in this recipe, but my two essentials are finely sliced carrot and spring onions (scallions). I also throw in finely sliced peppers, or sugar snap peas, shredded spinach etc.
Add Protein
This is optional – you can stir in shredded chicken, shrimp, tofu or veggie/vegan meat alternatives (I love Linda Mc Cartney pulled “chicken). You can stir fry these before adding to the noodles to serve hot.
Dress Your Noodles
Toss your cooked noodles with the spicy peanut sauce and sliced vegetables. Garnish with chopped roasted peanuts for added crunch, a sprinkling of sesame seeds, sliced chillies and plenty of chopped coriander (cilantro).
Slimming Friendly Swaps
These spicy noodles are SO easy to make, delicious hot or cold and super versatile! There’s so much to love about them and you can even make them suitable for plans like Slimming World and Weight Watchers with a few minor tweaks – take a look below!
- Use powdered peanut butter – this PB powder (1 syn per tablespoon) is great for making slimming friendly recipes like my Satay Chicken Salad
- Replace the honey with Sukrin Gold or another zero calorie sweetener
- Swap the Chilli Oil for Sriracha (1/2 syn per tablespoon)
- Leave out the peanuts or count them (6 syns per 25g)
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Spicy Peanut Noodles
Ingredients
For the sauce
- 4 tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
- 4 tablespoons runny honey (or 2 tablespoons brown sugar or sweetener)
- 2 tablespoons powdered peanut butter or use smooth or crunchy peanut butter
- 1-2 teaspoons chilli oil or Sriracha , to taste
- 2 tsp toasted sesame oil , optional
- 1 tsp garlic paste , optional
For the noodles
- 200 g (14oz) wholewheat spaghetti or any type of noodles
To serve
- bunch spring onions (scallions), finely diced
- 3 large carrots , coarsely grated or cut into thin strips
- 1 red bell pepper , sliced into thin strips
To garnish
- 3 tbsp roasted peanuts , roughly chopped
- small bunch coriander (cilantro), roughly chopped
- 1 red or green chilli, sliced optional
- 1 tsp sesame seeds , optional
- lime wedges to serve
Instructions
- Prep all the vegetables you are using in the recipe.
- Mix all the ingredients for the sauce in a bowl and set aside.
- Cook the noodles according to pack instructions, drain and have ready.
- Toss the noodles with the spicy peanut sauce, chopped vegetables and any protein if using.
- Garnish with the coriander, chilli, peanuts and sesame seeds. Serve hot or cold.
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Notes
- Use powdered peanut butter – this PB powder (1 syn per tablespoon) is great for making slimming friendly recipes like my Satay Chicken Salad
- Replace the honey with Sukrin Gold or another zero calorie sweetener
- Swap the Chilli Oil for Sriracha (1/2 syn per tablespoon)
- Leave out the peanuts or count them (6 syns per 25g)
Please note I am not affiliated in any way with Slimming World or Weight Watchers. These weight loss plans are often updated in line with latest nutritional guidance and may change so for accurate information it is best to join as a member.
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Nutritional information is always approximate, and will depend on quality of ingredients and serving sizes.
Nutritional Info
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