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One Pot Peanut sauce noodles or pasta, Ready in 20 minutes! Brown Rice Noodles, Veggies, Peanut or Almond Butter, spices, flavors, boil and done. Easy Quick Weeknight Dinner Recipe. Pin this Recipe.
On days when you just want some great tasting food within minutes of thinking about it, you make this Super Easy 1 Pot Peanut butter or Almond Butter Sauce Noodles and Veggies! Just chop things up, layer, cook and done.
I mean literally 12 minutes. Add water to your saucepan, add noodles, add veggies, nut butter (I usually use almond butter), flavors, bring to a boil, simmer for until the noodles are done. Garnish and serve! The noodles are somewhat soupy, which is how I love the dish as there is so much flavor in the sauce. The noodles absorb the sauce as they cool, so by the next day, there won’t be any. Adjust the liquid and noodle quantities to preference. This recipe is oil-free if your nut butter has no oil. Also see Video just above the Recipe.
What’s your favorite one pot meal?
More 1 pot /quick dinners from the blog
- 1 Pot Chickpea Sweet Potato Spinach GF, Soy-free
- Sweet And Sour Chickpeas and Broccoli GF
- Kung Pao Lentils GF
- Lentils & Veggies in Thai Peanut Sauce GF Soy-free
- Tempeh Butternut in Date Sweetened Teriyaki Sauce. GF
Commercial Nut butters often contain palm oil. Some Regular nut and seed butters by Artisana, Dastony, Once Again, Wilderness Family Naturals, Woodstock Farms, organic unsweetened Sunbutter (not the other varieties), a few of the products made by Maranatha (such as their peanut butter and raw organic and raw regular almond butter), and Whole Foods 365 brand of plain peanut and almond butter do not contain palm oil. in the US. See UK list here, Australia list here. Let me know of your favorite palm oil free brands in the comments.
Add water, layer the noodles and veggies, add the sauces, flavors and nut butter.
Bring to a boil and simmer for a few minutes. Let it cool for a minute or so. Garnish with cilantro of thai basil and serve.
If you make a bigger batch, use less liquid to begin with. Rice noodles might not reheat well, use pasta if you plan to store and reheat.
Video:
One Pot Peanut Sauce Noodles
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cup water
- 6 oz brown rice noodles, pad thai noodles or other noodles or use angel hair pasta
- 1/2 cup or more sliced carrots
- 1/2 of a large red bell pepper sliced
- 4 oz cubed tofu, 3/4 cup
- 2 tbsp scallions, chopped (optional)
- 2 to 3 tsp sriracha, I usually add more
- 2 to 3 tsp soy sauce, use certified gf if needed
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder , or use 2 tsp minced garlic or both
- 1 tbsp ginger paste or minced ginger
- 3 tbsp or more almond butter , or peanut butter
- 1 tsp lemon or lime juice
- 1/2 tsp white vinegar
- 1 tbsp or more sugar , or other sweetener
- 1/4 tsp salt or to taste
- cayenne to taste, 1/3 tsp or more
- 1/2 loaded cup chopped celery , or bok choy
- 2 tbsp or more cilantro or basil , or both for garnish
- roasted peanuts for garnish, optional
Instructions
- Add water to a saucepan.
- Add noodles and push them down so they are covered in water. Arrange veggies on the sides or top of the noodles. I added a chopped green chile as well.
- Add tofu and the rest of the ingredients through cayenne.
- Bring the pot to a boil over medium heat. Stir occasionally really well to make sure the nut butter mixes in and the noodles cook evenly. Once boiling well, add in the celery and mix in. Cook for another minute or 2. Check the noodles for doneness, Taste and adjust sweet, heat and lemon.
- Fold in cilantro, basil, or baby spinach if using. Let sit for another minute before serving. Garnish with peanuts or sprouts and a dash of fresh lime. We added a good dash of red pepper flakes as well.
Video
Notes
Add zest of half a kaffir lime or lime.
Add 1/2 cup coconut milk + 1 3/4 cup water for creamier sauce.
Add some sesame oil for stronger nutty flavor profile.
Cook the garlic, ginger and tofu in a bit of oil to golden, toss in veggies and cook for a minute, then add the water, noodles and the rest. To make soy-free, use coconut aminos for soy sauce, and chickpea tofu or cooked chickpeas or lentils or more veggies instead of Tofu! Tips: The noodles keep cooking in the hot broth. So you want to take the pan off heat as soon as the noodles are al dente. Different noodles have different cooking times. If the noodles generally are ending up over cooked, add them to the pan 3 to 4 minutes after adding all the veggie and sauce ingredients. Nutritional values based on one serving
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This looks so delicious! I am so into cooking with peanut butter lately and this is another perfect example nomnomnom. Adding some finely chopped chili might work really well with this recipe 😀
Definitely. I added some too. Its in the pictures 🙂
Do you recommend Soba noodles?
Yes soba should work too. they might need additional 2 minutes or so of simmering time. Any noodles or pasta that mentions the cook time in boiling water between 1 to 5 minutes will work.
This technique is brilliant and has increased harmony in my household. Okay, that’s a hyperbolic way of saying it, but it’s true! 🙂
We’ve been making a variant of this (which we just call “soupy noodles”) for a while, but haven’t been able to agree on what kind of noodles to use. I prefer rice noodles; my husband prefers wheat. Every time we made it, one of us felt sub-satisfied. Last night we tried using this technique of cooking the rice noodles in the sauce, and my husband loved it. This is definitely a keeper. Thank you!
Awesome! Yes the noodles pick up much more flavor. so glad you all loved it!
Gimme a C, gimme a U, gimme a R-R-Y! What does that spell? CURRY! My favorite one pot dish! These peanut noodles sound way too simple and delicious to be true!
🙂 they are really quick and easy. Somewhat Thai Noodle Soup thing 🙂
I made this last night. Great flavor and this recipe will be added to our favorites!
Awesome!
Great recipe, plenty of taste and nutrition, but really not that much work to do!
I veganise myself where I can, I love it when you do put gf though. I just need a bit of help with the odd thing but thanks to blogs I am learning to go about and get information.
Great! Some of the recipes are by default gf. I like the brown rice noodles in these as they cook faster and go well with the sauce and they are gf anyway.
What section of the store do you find brown rice noodles?
And it looks like thou used 3 packs? Thanks!
I use brown rice pad thai noodles. the packs would depend on the brand. Ilike Annie chun most of the time which has 2 packs.
This looks fantastic! Will definitely try it out soon. I only have the brown rice noodles that are super skinny, hopefully they will work!
Not to be a stickler, but soy sauce is not gluten free. Only Tamari is pure soy sauce. Most others contain wheat, as filler I’m assuming.
Thanks, use certified gluten-free wherever needed. It’s difficult to remember to add that note to every recipe, since you get same or similar product which is gf. i’ll add to this one.
Do you think I could sub tempeh for the tofu?? Looks so good and easy.
yes, use tempeh. steam it for 10 minutes or marinate it for a bit before adding.
This looks great…I look forward to giving it a go. I see that the number of servings are posted. Is there any way you might also include the nutritional information? I would find that really helpful. Thanks for sharing, and I love your cookbook!
Thanks! I am on the lookout for a good nutrition plugin that gives accurate information. Once I find it, the recipes will have the info. Its hard to find an accurate one and I don’t have the bandwidth to use the online counters that require me to add each ingredient one at a time.
My fitness pal lets you import a recipe by website url…it then matches ingredients (you double check it for accuracy) and then it calculates calories per serving…It also posts a link back to the website for credit and further instructions. I love it! (According to the site, it would be 334 calories per serving)
This recipe sounds delicious. Kinda like a noodly deconstructed spring roll with peanut dipping sauce. I hope to make it soon!