a light meal that is rich in flavour |
what you need:
for the peanut sauce
- 2 heaping tbsp natural peanut butter
- 2 tbsp naturally brewed soy sauce
- 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 2 slices fresh ginger
- 1 large garlic clove
- 2 green onions
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 1/2 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp grapeseed oil (or vegetable oil)
- 1 tsp white pepper
for the noodles
- 4 servings of any dry asian noodle, you can even use pasta (e.g. linguine)
- 2 medium carrots
- 1 handful fresh cilantro
- a small bunch broccolini (or broccoli)
what to do:
- Start by getting your sauce ready. Thinly slice ginger and roughly chop garlic. Cut off bottom white part of green onions (about 2 inches) and slice lengthwise. Get the rest of the ingredients for the sauce measured and ready on hand.
- In a small sauce pan on medium, heat up grapeseed and sesame oil. Add ginger, garlic, and onions. Sauté for about 1 min, then deglaze with the water. Add soy sauce, peanut butter, vinegar, and white pepper. Stir until peanut butter dissolves, and reduce heat down to a simmer. Allow it to reduce to about half.
garlic, onions, and ginger sautéing reducing sauce - Get a large pot of water on the stove on high heat to cook the noodles.
- While waiting for the pot to boil, clean and prepare vegetables. Peel and grate the carrots, and slice broccoli into long slim pieces. Slice remaining green onion on a bias and roughly tear cilantro.
- Once the water is boiling, add noodles. Depending on what kind of noodles you are using, your cooking time will vary. Whatever your package indicates, set your timer for 1 minute shy of it's cooking time. This is because you want to put the vegetables in with the noodles to cook for 1 minute.
- Drain noodles and vegetables, reserving about 1 cup of the cooking liquid.
- Return noodles and vegetables to pot and pour reduced peanut sauce over noodles and toss. You may need to add a little bit of the cooking liquid if the noodles seem too dry. Toss in some of your cilantro and green onions, but reserve a small amount for garnish.
- Transfer noodles to serving platter and top with cilantro and green onion for garnish. Serve with your favourite hot sauce if desired - we used sriracha. Enjoy!
with sriracha |
my friend asked me what deglaze means: it means to "lift off" flavour in your pan by adding liquid. so for example, if you were browning onions in your pan, and you added water to the pan, you would be "deglazing" by lifting off all the onion flavour from the bottom of the pan.
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