Friday, February 5, 2016

Asian Noodle Bowl with Peanut Dressing

This is "Oodles of Noodles" week at I Heart Cooking Clubs (IHCC) . This means any pasta, noodle or noodle-like dish.  As I looked through Ellie Krieger recipes both in The Food You Crave and www.elliekrieger.com  I thought the peanut noodles looked the tastiest and most likely to please. Peanut noodles are my favorite pasta dish and I've made many variations through the years, but I'm always game to try a new recipe for the dish.  Clearly, the dish appealed to some of my fellow cooks at IHCC, because there are already two postings for this same dish. 

Ellie Krieger has two recipes based on peanut noodles that are similar. I almost made the one found in The Food You Crave. It features broccoli, snow peas and sugar snaps. The problem is that February is a difficult month in which to find sugar snaps. This dish is probably wonderful, but better suited to late spring and summer cooking.

Asian Noodle Bowl with Peanut Dressing is better suited to year round cooking, at least in southern Virginia. As it turns out, I had all but three of the ingredients in my pantry already. The recipe can be found here. Although I only made two changes, it is a versatile recipe. The changes I made (regular pasta in place of whole wheat and crunchy, not creamy, peanut butter) were the result of what I already had on hand and could use up.

Basically, the recipe features many of my favorite flavors.
I added carrots, red pepper, snow peas and spring onion as written in the recipe. This recipe was a winner in my house. Usually, I don't add veggies or roasted peanuts to peanut noodles, but my  husband said they really added a nice crunch. The sauce on its own was a winner, too.
If you head over to IHCC this week, you'll find the other two variations, both of which look delicious.

7 comments:

  1. Your noodle bowl looks fabulous--I love the color and crunch from the red pepper and carrots.

    I was torn between this recipe and the one in The Food You Crave but the lime juice in the sauce pulled me into that one ultimately. ;-)

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    1. I saw your post. I am definitely going to have to try the lime-peanut variation. I loved the idea of your spiraled veggies in place of noodles.

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  2. You have me thinking that I should have chosen this recipe for my Oodles of Noodles! Yum! I love how satisfying the peanut sauce is - even more so with the crunch of the peanuts. This looks delicious.

    I'm in Kentucky and I share your frustration with not being able to find sugar snaps. I was in Trader Joe's the other day and they had some. Not sure if you have a Trader Joe's in your area or not.

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  3. Interesting to know that Ellie has so many versions of Asian Noodle Bowl.

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    1. You gotta love a recipe that is so adaptable. The sauce though is really terrific

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  4. I like how you added crunchiness to the peanut dressing. Roasted peanuts smell so great.

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  5. I had to search to find this one. AROMATC noodles..... Have to try this one real soon.

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