Sesame Peanut Noodles is lower fat recipe made with hot noodles tossed in a sweet and spicy peanut sauce. It is pure comfort food it's nutty flavor and toothsome pasta.
Made with simple ingredients, this family favorite is delicious hot or cold, can be a great side dish or a complete meal when you add chicken or shrimp.
❤️ Why you'll love it
✔️ This noodle recipe can be made into a main dish by adding chicken or shrimp.
✔️ It has the perfect balance creamy sauce and chewy noodles.
✔️ Sesame peanut butter noodles are perfect for meal prep.
🥘 Ingredients
- Spaghetti noodles: you can use whatever type of noodle you like. Regular spaghetti noodles, rice noodles or soba noodles.
- Reduced fat creamy peanut butter
- Sugar free ketchup
- Hoisin Sauce, this is an asian ketchup found in the Asian section of your grocery store.
- Reduced sodium soy sauce, regular soy sauce can be used as well but the sodium content increases.
- Light brown sugar, adds sweetness to the creamy sauce.
- Rice vinegar
- Sesame oil
- Green onions
- Cilantro
- Red pepper flakes
🔪 Instructions
- Cook noodles according to package directions until al dente. Drain and transfer hot noodles to a large bowl.
- While the noodles are cooking, mix together the sauce ingredients.
- In medium pot over medium low heat, combine peanut butter, ketchup, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar, rice vinegar, and sesame oil.
- Heat the sauce until just warmed and well combined.
- Pour peanut sesame sauce mixture the hot noodles. Toss with tongs until noodles are coated.
- Garnish with green onions and cilantro.
🥄 Equipment
Large pot
Large bowl
Tongs
🥫Storage
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge up to 4 days.
📖 Variations
- Toss ½ cup thinly sliced red bell pepper and 1 cup shredded chicken into the noodle mixture.
- For bolder flavors, whisk one minced garlic clove and 12 teaspoon fresh ginger into the sesame peanut sauce.
- Substitute 1 teaspoon chili sauce for the red pepper flakes.
💭 Tips
- The key to success with this sesame noodle recipe is to make sure the noodles are hot when the warm peanut sauce is added. This will make a creamy delicious sesame noodles recipe.
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Try this Honey Sesame Chicken as a main dish to these creamy noodles.
Keto peeps will love this Keto Sesame Chicken recipe.
🍽 Serve with...
Serve this noodle dish as a side to any of your favorite Asian main dishes, grilled chicken or shrimp.
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📖 Recipe
Sesame Peanut Noodles
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Ingredients
- 6 oz. dry spaghetti noodles
- ⅓ cup reduced fat creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup water
- 3 tablespoons sugar-free ketchup
- 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 2 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 scallions thinly sliced
Instructions
- Note: I added some cooked chicken breast tenders to this dish to add some protein. If your counting points, please allow for what chicken you add to the dish.
- Update: I have made this and added chopped cilantro and chili pepper flakes to the mixture since my first posting. If you are a cilantro lover, then the addition will take this recipe over the top for you without added points!
- Cook pasta according to directions. Let cool 10 minutes.
Mix peanut butter through sesame oil together in saucepan and heat until just warmed and well combined. Pour over noodles and sprinkle with scallions.
duodishes says
Love big, fat noodles like that! The peanut butter and sesame go so well together.
Reeni♥ says
I love these! I never tried to make them at home. What an easy and delicious recipe!
Gera @ SweetsFoods says
Shelby really a very creative dish with peanut butter!!
Great job - definitely to put on my list to try!
Pam says
I love this recipe. Noodles with a creamy sesame peanut butter sauce - yum.
Flourchild says
After that TWD Devils cake weight watchers would be a good thing! Your pasta looks wonderful. Im excited to make the Caramel Crunch Bars....Im kind of sick of sweets but these look rather tasty!
Poodle says
This sounds amazing! I think I'm going to make this tonight ... adding the chicken like you did and maybe some peanuts and water chestnuts ... This looks like a nice "base" to add other things to. YUM!
HoneyB says
Michelle, the ketchup did turn me off when I read the ingredient list, but I went ahead and made it anyway and am so glad that I did! It is in no way bad!
Barbara, Grumpy ate leftover Dill Pickle Meatloaf (which I never got a photo of so no blog about that yet!). I'm sure if there was nothing else in the house he would have at least tried it. As it was, he didn't get any and won't get any either! Not this time around anyway!
Barbara Bakes says
I would love it, but did Grumpy!
pigpigscorner says
Peanut butter!! Looks really good! I'm watching my diet too, I'll give this a go!
Robin Sue says
This is my kind of treat! Love noodle salads especially with these flavors. Thanks for the recipe.
shellyfish says
I love dishes like this! Fast, easy & delicious!
Maria says
The noodles look scrumptious! I will take a big bowl, please:)
Carrie says
I adore all types of peanut sauce on noodles - yours looks great!
Michelle says
Never would have expected the ketchup in this recipe! Looks great!
5 Star Foodie says
What a scrumptious bowl of noodles - love the flavors!
Linda says
I was just looking for a recipe like this--what a coincidence! My DH would like this one.
The Hungry Mouse says
OMG, I could eat bowls of this!
+Jessie
Marthe says
This looks soooo good!! I have this thing for peanut butter at the moment, so this must be made by me too!!
Happy cook says
Wowo this is one of the best simple but delicious noodle dish i have evr seen, they do really look so delicous.
tamilyn says
Those look yummy! Truth be told thought, I would have to use angel hair or vermicelli-traumatic childhood memory with regular spaghetti noodles.....shudder...