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Chinese Thai Sesame Noodles

I love this dish and can eat it all the time.   Chinese Thai Sesame Noodles

Serves 4 for a main course and 6 as a starter or more if you are serving several dishes at the same time.

 

Although this recipe has lots of ingredients there is nothing complicated about it at all. Its as simple as throwing everything into a small sauce pan and cooking it for 2 or 3 minutes. The sauce can be made hours before or even the day before you want to use it.


3 msk. or 3 tbls. soy sauce
3 msk. or 3 tbls. fish sauce
3 msk. or 3 tbls. rice vinegar or white-wine vinegar
3 msk. or 3 tbls. fish sauce
1 tsk. or 1 teas. dried hot red pepper flakes, or to taste
3 msk. or 3 tbls. firmly packed brown sugar or granulated sugar, or to taste
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 msk. or 1 tbls. Oriental sesame oil
1 msk. or 1 tbls. fresh ginger very finely chopped or grated peeled
1 large clove of garlic finely chopped or grated.
1/2 cup chicken broth (can be a bouillon cube or liquid bouillon)
400 gr. or 11 oz. linguine or medium weight Chinese noodles
2 msk. or 2 tbls. veg. or sunflower oil to coat the pasta.
6 (about) thinly sliced scallion (spring onion)
1-2 finely sliced red chilies (optional) depending on your taste for heat.
½ cup coarsely chopped coriander
1 juice of one lime or to taste.
   

Assembling the recipe:

In a small sauce pan put in the soya, vinegar, fish sauce, chili pepper flakes, brown sugar, peanut butter, sesame oil, ginger, and chicken broth. Bring gently up to a boil and boil for a minute or two until the sauce begins to thicken.

Cook the Chinese noodles according to the instructions on the package. I usually bring a large pot of salted water to a boil – toss in the noodles, remove from the heat and let sit for 3 minutes stirring occasionally.

Test the noodles by tasting them for doneness. When ready, drain and pour cold water over them to stop them from cooking.

Pour over them and toss about 2 msk. or 2 tbls. of veg oil to stop them from sticking too badly and let them sit until ready to be used.

To assemble the dish place the pasta back in the pot you cooked it in and pour over the sauce. If the sauce is too thick you can thin it with a bit of warm water.

Mix well and then add the finely sliced chilies, scallions 2 msk or 2 tbls of toasted sesame seeds most of the chopped coriander and the juice of one lime. Toss again transfer to a nice serving dish and serve at room temperature.


Notes:

 

I love this dish and can eat it all the time. I also like it spicy so I use the extra chilies in mine most of the time. I also use the garlic. The original Chinese recipe was simpler, with none of the Thai influences such as fish sauce, garlic and lime.

There are lots of inexpensive peanut butters around especially from the Middle East. So you don’t need to buy the expensive American ones.

This is a meal in itself but my Sesame Crusted Chicken Breast goes really well with it and they only take about 15 minutes to make.


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