Cold Sesame Noodles

KelBel's Note:

Better then takout. Nice summer dish. Great for picnics.

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
• ½ teaspoon hot pepper flakes
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• ½ cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
• 1 teaspoon grated gingerroot
• ½ cup chicken broth
• 1 lb linguine
• chopped scallion
• cucumber
• sesame seed (to garnish)

Directions:

1. In saucepan over medium heat, mix first 8 ingredients together (soy sauce to chicken broth), stir until thick and smooth.
2. Cook linguine in salted water until al dente. Drain and rinse with cool water.
3. Mix linguine and sauce mixture in bowl.
4. Serve cold or at room temperature with scallions, cucumbers, and sesame seeds as garnish.

Reviews

[Chef #1376400]

This recipe was way too salty for me so I made a lot of changes. I used 2 tbsp light soy sauce, 1.5 tbsp rice vinegar, 2.5 tbsp brown sugar, 3 tbsp crunchy peanut butter, 1 tsp sesame oil, 1/4 cup chicken broth, 1/4 tsp chili powder and 1/4 tsp ginger powder (sub for pepper flakes and ginger roots). This amount of sauce is good for 8 oz linguine. The sauce is on the sweet side.

[Seedbeads]

I made this exactly as written (minus whatever peanut butter I licked off the spoon instead of scraping in) and used half the sauce on my pound of spaghettini (the rest will do anothe batch in a few days). Gave the kids more cucumber and DH and I more onions, and everyone's plate is clean. We had this with beef vegetable dumplings and it was excellent. :)

[L. Davenport]

I liked this. I lowered the peanut butter by probably half because I've found it overpowering in other recipes. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this. I used the quick oriental noodles instead of linguine and served it on a bed of lettuce.