Summer time Dinners // Chilly Peanut Noodles • Kath Eats

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

This time of 12 months when the solar is out late, so are we!

And after we come residence, 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 these days and we all the time 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 normal, it’s very easy to make. 

Chilly Peanut Noodles Recipe

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

Components

• 3 boneless hen breasts
• 3/4 pound dried noodles, similar to 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 can 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 embody: peppers, zucchini, inexperienced beans, carrots.

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

Step 3: Cook 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 all the pieces is melted and mixed. You may as well use a meals processor to mix the sauce if heating just isn’t an possibility. If the sauce is a bit 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 hen and herbs

Step 7: Chill till able to eat 

And chill till meal time, at any time when which may be! You may as well completely take pleasure in scorching in the event you’d like! Brighten the end with a ultimate squeeze of lime juice!

Recipe Notes

• In case 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 a substitute of hen, attempt shrimp or flaked salmon or hold it vegetarian. 

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