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Noodles and Veggies Stir Fried in an Asian Peanut Butter Sauce

August 4, 2014 By Laura 2 Comments

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Noodles and Vegetables Stir Fried with a Asian Inspired Peanut Butter Sauce

Proof that the brain is a muscle like any other: since my surgery, i.e., since all these weeks of not really using my brain and just reading guilty pleasure regency romances (yes I admit it!), I have writer’s block. Maybe not big time true writer’s block, the way some long suffering novelist might get, but I have spent an awful lot of nights staring at a cursor on a blank screen. The baking is coming along, the cooking is not bad, but the writing is like pulling teeth!

So I guess I will just get to the dish! These Noodles and Veggies Stir Fried in an Asian Peanut Butter Sauce are based on this noodle recipe over at iFoodReal. I did change some things around, but not enough to bother writing the recipe out separately. I used high fiber spaghetti noodles and angel hair (a mix of what I had around) in place of the soba noodles. I totally forgot to retain some of the pasta boiling water (don’t make that mistake!!!!) so I ended up thinning it with water with some cornstarch whisked in, which sounds crazy I know but it worked. I also used a lot more peanut butter. Because, ahem, I was not measuring and was just tossing stuff together.

Speaking of the just tossing… I think any veggie that sounds good to you would work in this. The original recipe had kale, peas and peppers. Mine has peppers, zucchini, yellow summer squash, and the delightfully named fairy eggplant (which I convinced my kids to eat because of that delightful name!). In the spring I would use peas and pea pods and greens for sure, but that is not what was in the farmer’s market right now. I also think mushrooms would have been yummy, but alas I had none. The point being, it’s a great basic recipe–run with it!

Noodles and Vegetables Stir Fried with a Asian Inspired Peanut Butter Sauce

 

 

Filed Under: chicken, easily made vegetarian, pasta, stir fry, zucchini Tagged With: asian, bell peppers, chicken, eggplant, noodles, pasta, peanut butter, peppers, stir fry, weeknight, zucchini

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  1. Joanne says

    August 5, 2014 at 6:48 am

    You don’t have to tell me twice to make a recipe with peanut sauce!

    And ack! Writer’s block is the worst. But you did the hardest thing, which is push through!

    Reply
  2. Kirsten says

    July 25, 2015 at 4:07 pm

    Laura,
    Thanks for this recipe! I’ve added it to the Farm Fresh Feasts Visual Recipe Index by Ingredient, a resource for folks like me who love to eat from the farm share.
    I appreciate your help in making this index better!

    Reply

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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