These creamy Thai Inspired peanut noodles are a quick and delicious dinner that’s perfect for busy weeknights. Noodles are tossed in a quick peanut sauce along with our favorite veggies: carrots, bean sprouts, and cabbage.
If your family is like mine, finding a dish everyone loves can be a challenge but everyone always agrees on this dish inspired by a favorite local Thai restaurant! You can add chicken or shrimp if you’d like!
What’s in Peanut Butter Noodles?
These peanut noodles are not an authentic Thai dish but they’re definitely inspired by a favorite peanut sauce of ours.
- Sauce: An easy and creamy sauce made with peanut butter, a hint of heat, and lots of flavor. You can make it as spicy (or mild) as you like. Add a dash of fish sauce if you have it on hand!
- Noodles: Rice noodles, linguine or spaghetti work well in this recipe (whole wheat noodles work too).
- Veggies: Julienned or shredded veggies are great in this dish. Use whatever you have on hand.
- Toppings: My favorite part! Lime juice, peanuts, cilantro, and green onions all add a big punch of flavor!
Tips For Making Peanut Noodles
- Once you start cooking this recipe comes together FAST! Prep all ingredients before getting started.
- Add leftover oven baked chicken breasts or shrimp to this recipe.
- Peanut butter noodle sauce is too thick, just add a little pasta water or chicken broth to thin it out.
- The sauce does thicken up a bit when it sits on the pasta, so it’s best to serve this dish right after tossing the pasta and sauce together.
- The amount of salt you’ll ultimately need in this dish will be greatly affected by the soy sauce you use. I use low sodium soy sauce.
- Make a slow cooker version and let the slow cooker do all the work!
My Favorite Toppings
If you’re looking for some quick and easy toppings for these peanut noodles, try some of these:
- meat: chicken, shrimp, beef, or pork
- peanuts
- cilantro
- lime juice
- green onions
Serve this with…
- Sesame Ginger Snap Peas
- Garlic Butter Shrimp
- Bean Sprout Salad
- Sesame Bok Choy make great sides with this meal
- Sauteed Mushrooms with Garlic
- Sesame Air Fryer Green Beans
Creamy Peanut Noodles
Ingredients
- 8 ounces linguine or spaghetti
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- ½ cup carrots julienned
- 1 ½ cups shredded cabbage
- ¼ cup bean sprouts optional
- green onions peanuts, and cilantro, for garnish
Sauce
- ½ cup chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon sriracha or to taste
- 1 ½ teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes optional
Instructions
- Combine sauce ingredients in a small bowl. Set aside.
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain well, do not rinse.
- Meanwhile, cook ginger and garlic in vegetable oil until fragrant.
- Add carrots and cabbage and cook 2-3 minutes or until slightly tender. Add sauce while stirring over medium heat and simmer until thickened, about 2-3 minutes.
- Stir in noodles and bean sprouts. Garnish with crushed peanuts, cilantro and green onions (add lime wedges).
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Pasta
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This is a fantastic recipe with breaded fried shrimp! Fry the shrimp and add them to the top of the noodles.
That sounds like an amazing twist! Breaded fried shrimp would add such a delicious crunch and flavor to the noodles.
Can you use Undon noodles? I’m definitely going to try it.
I haven’t tried it so I can’t say for sure Marlene, but that should work just fine! If you try it I would love to hear how it turns out!
My husband and I both agreed this was our favourite new recipe in quite a while! It’s really flavourful and has the perfect kick to make things a little more interesting for me who’s typically pretty comfortable in the “mild” lane when it comes to this sort of dish. I did it with a package of flat rice noodles and it made for a really delicious pad thai sort of vibe. This is definitely going to become a frequent meal in our household!
I’m so glad you both loved it as much as we do! Thank you for your review.
This is my all time favorite go to weeknight dinner. So simple and delicious and great to use up any veggies I have kicking around! SWP Employee
I’m so glad you loved this Ayla!
Love you recipes very easy and tasty
This recipe is wonderful and is now on my list of favorites! Even my picky 13 year old son liked it. I followed the recipe exactly ezcept for the bean sprouts which my local store dies not carry.
That is great Natalie! Glad to hear he enjoyed this recipe too :)
Yum – thank you.
The noodle recipe sounds really good. Thank you and have a good weekend!
Peanut sauce makes everything taste awesome!