Spicy Peanut Butter Noodles
Summary
| Yield | |
|---|---|
| Prep time | 20 minutes |
| Kind of Dish | main dishes |
| Dietary Info | vegetarian |
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Description
something i came up with when i hadn't gone shopping and thought i had nothing to eat
Ingredients
| 1⁄2 | Cup | peanut butter |
| Pinch | pepper flakes or chili powder | |
| 1⁄2 | Tablespoon | diced garlic |
| 1 | Tablespoon | soy sauce |
| 1⁄2 | Teaspoon | sugar |
| 1 | Pound | pasta of choice |
Instructions
Boil water, add pasta. While pasta cooks for the next 15, do the following:
PB into mixing bowl. Add remaining ingredients one by one, mixing until smooth. Dump water & allow pasta to cool slightly. Toss pasta & sauce together.
Can be served hot or refrigerated and served cold as pasta salad.
Notes
I've found crunchy pb gives this a cool texture. I've added different meats, chicken or tofu seem to work best, but the no-food-in-the-fridge inspiration keeps the vegetarian version tops in my mind.
The spiciness (and particular spicy ingredient) can be varied to taste, and on brokedown empty-cupboard nights I've been known to just use leftover Dominos Pizza Pepper seasoning, but this stuff is ideal. Hope u dig it!
Comments
HA! I freestyled an almost-the-exact-same-dish once on a 'ran out of food day.' I called it 'Ersatz Hobo Thai.'
"Ran out of food dish" is probably my favorite kind of food
it's like Narnia, you never get there by looking for it
I make something like this regularly, based on a recipe I found in Vegetarian Times many years ago. For the sauce, I use 1/2 cup of crunchy peanut butter and 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar, 1tbsp soy sauce, 1tbsp water and 1 tbsp honey. If you're using white sugar, you probably want to turn it into a simple syrup first. I sometimes sautee onions and broccoli in sesame oil and throw that in, but the essentials: top dish with a handful of chopped carrots and salted peanuts. It gives it a really nice crunch and mix of flavors!
Also, 1 lb of pasta is A LOT for 3 servings. Typical yield for a 1 lb box of pasta is 8 servings.
that's why they call him BIG HOOS