Friday, December 28, 2007

Somen Noodles with Spicy Peanut Sauce

In my post Christmas shopping adventures I found the most wonderful cookbook.


There are a bunch of recipes in here that I plan to make. If you are cooking for more than one it will be easy to double or triple the amounts.


This recipe is for Somen Noodles with Peanut sauce. If you cannot get somen noodles you can use ramen, spaghetti or linguini.


First get your pan of water on the stove.


These are somen noodles. I discovered these when they were served on a salad and I loved them. If you do find these be VERY careful because they cook FAST!


It says to use some fancy peanut butter but Jif has always been my peanut butter and I don't need anything else. The writing on the jar is to let everyone know that is MY peanut butter and that eating out of the jar is not permitted. Yes, I have to do that in my house :)




You could use any hot sauce you'd like or cayenne pepper.


Here is a great tip, keep your brown sugar in the freezer and pull it out a bit before you need to use it and it will stay soft instead of turning into a brick in your pantry.


Add your garlic. I never used a garlic press before because I heard they were a pain to clean, but my sister got me this one for Christmas and it worked great and it cleaned up very easily. I would definitely recommend you get one of these and use fresh garlic instead of buying that minced junk they sell in jars.


Stir all of the ingredients well. The recipe said to stick the mix in a jar and shake, but I don't have random jars laying around and just whisked it up.


Your water should be boiling so toss in the noodles. If you have the somen noodles keep a VERY close eye on them because you do not want them to get mushy.


Your peanut sauce should almost look like chocolate. The sauce is thick so I drained the noodles and threw them back in the same pan leaving just a little bit of water so they would be easier to combine.


I garnished with some peanuts and dug in!


It was delicious and I will definitely make it again! The recipe suggests using the sauce for dipping with veggies and tofu as well, but I'd just add the tofu or even chicken to this recipe and it would be great. I hope you give this one a try!

21 comments:

  1. That looks wonderful. I love peanut sauce. I am going to try the chicken thighs this week when I am off. Pappy thinks they sound wonderful. We always had to put our name on food we wanted or someone in the house would eat it. Rachelle knows who that would be. Do you earn money if we click on the ads?

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  2. A friend of mine has a fantastic Thai cookbook. It has lots of great photos. We made a recipe one time that was incredibly delicious. But it took 2 hours to prep and cook

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  3. I have a very similar recipe that uses Soba noodles. This one looks like a snap to make though...mine requires a blender & I hate cleaning more pots/pans/appliances than necessary! betcha they would be great with chicken or pork tenderloin.

    Oh & our PB jars are labeled DOGS & SCOTT.

    Jen

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  4. I'm not a big noodle person but the peanut sauce sounds good. I totally understand labeling your food. That was one nice thing about moving out of my parents. But then once a man comes into the house you have to start all over :)

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  5. I finally found some time to read your blog and I love it! I'm wondering where you find the time to do all of this cooking, girl. I'm impressed!

    margie

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  6. That looks GREAT! I might have to try it. I don't think Lillie's dad would eat it, but one of the hooman pups might. Your blog is making me HUNGRY!!

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  7. Yummy!!!
    I am a noodle freak!Thats what I will eat for dinner today!

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  8. Yum! It's the weekend and I may just have to make this dish this weekend.

    Jessica

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  9. Ooooh...I need t try that. I bet it would be good cold too!!! I have dogs & me PB too!!!

    That book looks great! I might have to get that!!!

    Michele

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  10. That looks really good. I usually just buy the bottled Padang Peanut sauce, but maybe I'll try making the sauce next time.

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  11. I've been lurking around Joey's blog for a while now and thought I'd check out this blog. Glad I did! I love to cook, too, and I'm already making plans to try out some of these recipes!

    BTW, I have the same garlic press, and it's WONDERFUL. Much better than presses I've owned in the past, and infinitely better than smacking those cloves with a knife blade ;)

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  12. OOoh. My ma ape is quite impressed by your presentation (and photography). If she was on Iron Chef she'd get a 0 for presentation. She makes an almost identical recipe with veggies (especially spinach) and that toad food.

    wally.

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  13. Did someone mention peanut butter??? I'm drooling here! J1 is DEFINATELY going to make this for herself. J x

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  14. Yum! And it's vegetarian, so I'm going to have to try it.

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  15. I just made this for dinner, and it was delicious! Thanks!

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  16. I'm totally going to try this sometime. I am so in love with peanut sauce lately it's crazy. The stuff I've been using is just a fast mix that you whip together with some coconut milk -- so bad for you though! But oh so good.

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  17. Hey pal, J1 asked me to tell you that she made this for dinner tonight and she loved it. I was jabbing the back of her legs while she made it but she didn't share ANY of it with me, the cakey pig! J x

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  18. thank you for sharing! i just went ahead and ordered the book on amazon, too :)

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  19. does the book have nutritional information with the recipes?

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  20. anon, i couldnt find that information but i really hope it does. hopefully she knows?

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