Asian Peanut Noodles are salty and spicy. Just 5 easy pantry ingredients. Ready in 10 minutes and the perfect fix when you’ve had a long day.
If your in the mood for a delicious Asian Noodle Recipe for dinner but don’t want to spend hours in the hot kitchen, this recipe is exactly what you have been looking for. You can also try Spicy Peanut Noodles or Sesame Noodles for a tasty noodles that are ready fast!
Sabrina’s 5 Ingredient Asian Peanut Noodle Recipe
A few years ago I was browsing Pinterest for ramen noodle ideas. I had this crazy craving for the chicken cup o’ noodles I used to eat as a kid. You would be surprised how creative people get with ramen! With only 5 ingredients from your panty, you can enjoy this quick easy meal. Try it today!
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Ingredients
- 1 pound thin spaghetti
- 6 cups chicken stock , or 6 cups water and 2 heaping tablespoons of Chicken Better Than Bouillon
- 3 tablespoon lite soy sauce
- 3 tablespoon peanut butter
- Sriracha sauce (to taste, I usually use just less than a tablespoon for a pound of pasta)
- Crushed peanuts (optional)
- sliced green onions (optional)
Instructions
- Cook the noodles on high with stock for 5-7 minutes.
- Drain off 90% of the water
- Add soy sauce, peanut butter and sriracha. Mix well.
- Add peanuts and green onions if you want to get fancy!
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About this Recipe
I wanted the texture of the noodles, but a flavor that tasted like ingredients instead of chemicals. I came across a recipe that mentioned the combination of peanut butter and sriracha. After a few experiments, I found the perfect combination, the secret was Better than Bouillon. The concentrated chicken flavor completely makes up for the flavor packet. Then the soy and peanut butter make it creamy and full of umami. Finally the sriracha gives it a kick. PERFECTION!
What to Pair with 5 Ingredient Asian Peanut Noodles
Whether its after a long day or you just want something easy for dinner, these noodles are perfect for any day of the week. Pair them with sides like Potstickers and Spring Rolls dipped in Sweet and Sour Sauce. Finish the meal off with some tasty Chinese Donuts for dessert.
How to Store
- Serve: This recipe can be kept and served at room temperature up to 2 hours before it should be refrigerated. Just be sure to keep a lid on it when not being served.
- Store: Leftovers will last up to 4 days in the refrigerator if it’s sealed in an airtight container.
- Freeze: You can freeze noodles in an airtight container or freezer safe bag for up to 2 months. Defrost overnight before reheating, adding some soy sauce if needed.
Ideas to Serve 5 Ingredient Asian Peanut Noodles
If you would like to get fancy with this easy noodle recipe, try some peanuts and sliced green onions on top. If I have cooked chicken in the fridge, chop it up and toss it in with all the sauce ingredients. Serve it in a bowl with chop sticks and side sauces like Siracha, Hoisin sauce, and soy sauce.
Variations
- Meat: You can add any protein that you would like or have on hand, It even works with leftovers from previous meals. Try it with chicken, shrimp or even left over roast pork.
- Tofu: You can also make this vegetarian by adding in baked tofu to your noodles.
- Veggies: Try adding some of your favorite roasted veggies like broccoli, carrots, cabbage, or peppers.
Related Recipes
More Easy Asian Noodle Recipes
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I was a little nervous eating noodles with peanut butter, but they were the BOMB!!! Yum, thank you!
So good, right?! So glad you enjoyed them Judy and thanks for the five stars.
Thank you so much for this fast lunch break idea. Great to whip up something substantial while I’m busy working from home, and don’t want to spend my whole lunch hour cooking. ?
I’m very, very surprised you don’t/didn’t add garlic (crushed or powder) Are you sensitive to it?
As someone who is sensitive to garlic, she may be relying on the garlic in the siracha. It has a lot of garlic.
I really love these noods
Yum. This was super simple and delish. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome!
Really enjoyed, I may have had too much sauce to noodle ratio. If your like me and haven’t had peanut butter in a dish before maybe cut it back ha ha. The extra spice is a definite must. Hopefully can add chicken and green onions to really add something. Garlic and chili powder might not be bad ideas either.
So glad you enjoyed the dish!
Love this recipe! I was looking for an easy peanut sauce to make and kept finding ones with ingredients I didn’t have until this one. Only change I made is that I microwaved the peanut butter before using it, to make it blend into the noodles a bit easier. I’ll definitely be making this again.
wow!!! thanks for this-we have ordered these noodles from chinese restaurants for years-never dreaming how easy it could be to make these…thanks,i made it just as you said and it was amazing!!!
So glad you all enjoyed it Anne!
I totally get the whole spending-2-hours-of-your-life-looking-through-pins thing. It happened to me on a lower scale a few hours ago. I woke up around 2 in the morning and just couldn’t go back to sleep. For some reason, my eyes were so tired, but my mind was thinking about all sorts of things a mile a minute! Plus, I was so hungry. After failing to go back to sleep for the hundredth time, I relented and got on my phone to look up all kinds of filling recipes I could make. After a while, I looked up peanut butter noodles, which I had been craving for around a week since my brother mentioned it. I found a recipe with a ton of reviews, but also a ton of ingredients that I just didn’t have (or like). Dejected, I looked at some other recipes but none of them really caught my eye. And then I found this one. The more I read, the more hopeful I became. When I saw the ingredients, I just thought, “Wow, this looks so simple and so good!” I vowed to make it. Then, I tried to go back to sleep. It didn’t work. I finally got up at 6 AM to get something to eat. I figured I’d make some pasta quickly to sate my hunger. A peek into the fridge and pantry revealed that I had Asian noodles AND peanut butter. At that moment, I could practically taste the end product. I ended up making the pasta and the peanut butter noodles in a span of one hour. I let my grandmother have the first bite, and she commented on how rich it was and that it was tasty as well. (By the way, I didn’t even realize that the recipe called for siracha, which I didn’t have, but the finished product looked great anyway. I’m sure I would have loved it with siracha, too, since I love spicy food.) After cleaning up, I got myself a bowl, a bottle of water, and made myself comfortable in my sister’s room. I figured I could taunt her with it, so she’d get up earlier for school. But alas, she simply rolled over in bed, and turned her back on me. “Oh well,” I said, while helping myself to the product of my labors. “I’ll just enjoy this myself then.”
And enjoy, I did.
Thank you so much for this recipe; it was absolutely delicious and so simple to make.
P.S.: I’m sorry about my super long comment. For some reason, I just felt like the buildup was necessary. 😀
Have a great day!
I also sometimes get recipes stuck in my mind and can’t think about anything else until I make them! Thanks for sharing your story! 🙂
Yum, turned out simple and warming. Comfort food at its best.
Thanks for coming back to let me know about it! I’m so glad you liked it!
This looks delicious! I’m so boring with my pasta, but this looks easy enough for me to do
YES! Super simple!
This looks amazing and with only 5 ingredients, how can you beat that?!?! Your photography is beautiful as well! Thanks for joining the Link-It To Me Link Party, I hope you will party with us again next week!
How sweet! Thank you!
This looks really good. Thank you for sharing at the #AnythingGoes Link Party.
Love your link up! I will definitely share again!
Stop it! You are making me feel hungry with 3 hours until dinner! Thanks so much for sharing this delicious recipe with us at #AnythingGoes link up
Hahaha! Make this for dinner! I love your link up too!
It made me smile when you clarified that the Martha Steward recipe was “heavily adapted”. 🙂
I always marvel at people who can take an existing recipe and then have the wisdom to be able to play around with the ingredients to come up with their own delicious variation.
It looks like the Lord has blessed you with a gift. 🙂
Thanks for sharing.
That is so sweet of you! Thank you for the kind words! I have to say I chuckled a little while writing “heavily adapted” too.
My family would love these! They look SO good, will have to put this on our try list!
Thanks! I hope you love them!
Easy recipes are my favourite ones to make! This looks delicious.
Thanks!
Sabrina you had me at three steps my dear! This looks amazing!
Thanks! As much as I love recipes that are complicated, I have days it has to be easy or it is cereal for dinner!
If Pinterest can’t help, Martha definitely can! hehe 🙂 The salad sounds so good! This is definitely happening this summer.
Thanks! Yeah, Martha knows all!
I must try this sauce! I love asian peanut sauce in many varieties and this one looks delicious! Thanks for sharing how to make it.
I bet you probably already have all the ingredients too! That is one of my favorite things about this sauce!
Pinned this to try, it sounds amazing! I love the possibilities it provides!
Yay! Thank you for the pin!
This looks so yummy! I pinned it to try soon.
Thank you for the pin!! I hope you love it 🙂
Now I know what’s for lunch! I love the idea of the spaghetti instead of ramen. The cooked chicken is in the fridge, so I’m good to go.
AWESOME! I love that it is a spur of the moment dish!
My husband picks up udon , rice and ramen noodles from a local Asian market. They taste so much better then those 10c dehydrated packets. lol He’ll be thrilled to see your recipe.
A man after my own heart! Hope you guys love them!
Looks delicious and so easy! I seem to make all Italian food so I need to try something different 🙂
Try this dish! You probably have all the ingredients in your cupboard! I hope you love it 🙂
I love better than bouillon paste! That stuff has saved me so many times when I need some special flavoring. It’s so great. This recipe looks delicious, and so easy! Pinned 🙂
Yay! I was talking to my mom today and she said she’d never heard of it. In the kitchen it is pretty much my go to so I was kind of in shock. Instead of continuing our conversation I launched into my love of it for 10 minutes. Also, thanks for the pin! I’m still so new I get so excited when people love enough to pin for later!
Wow does this ever look amazing. I’m not sure my kids would love this as much as myself and my husband but I’m for sure going to have to try this!
My oldest had some a couple of days ago, it is one of their favorites! Our trick to cooking it for kids is I hold back on the sriracha in the meal, then just add it to my portion. But only if your kids are super young and can’t handle any spice at all 🙂
Wow does this ever look amazing. I’m not sure my kids would love this as much as myself and my husband but I’m for sure going to have to try this!
Hats off to you for getting so creative and refusing to eat the ‘flavor packet’! I’m gluten-free now but used to love Ramen, really for the texture of the noodles. I totally agree on the packet. You’ve elevated the ramen experience tenfold; this sounds fantastic!
Aww thank you, that is so sweet of you! I definitely have my ramen packet moments with other things that aren’t as fresh as can be but I try to minimize where I can. It really took my first pregnancy and all the “paranoid about to be a new mom” research to learn about the harm of them and the dangers of things like nitrates/nitrites. I can’t tell you how hard of a shift it was!
Looks absolutely delicious and simple to make!
It’s a favorite at our house! I hope you get a chance to try it!
I have never had ramen noodles. But my husband loves them. He would love this recipe.
I’d love to hear from him then! 😉
This looks so delicious. I will have to try this recipe on the weekend. I am sure it will be a big hit.
Thank you! I look forward to hearing how it turns out for you!
Peanut sauce is to die for. This looks incredible! Pinned 🙂
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy it!
This looks and sounds really good. I tried some sort of Asian chicken type salad the other day and it was delicious, had very similar ingredients. Must make this at home!
Thanks! Let me know how it turns out if you end up making it!
We love Asian noodles and I always have Ramen and Cup O Noodle on hand for quick easy meals or random cravings. The added spice is a real treat too!
I think this is a great twist on those noodles and it’s almost as easy to make! I hope you get a chance to try it!
Awesome nice meal. Looks so good.
Thank you!
This looks really yummy. I need to make them soon.
This looks really good. I think I will make this in place of spaghetti this week. Thanks for the recipe.
Wonderful! I hope you love it!
I was just finishing my plate with noodles when I saw this! What a delicious addition this recipe would be to my collection. Pinned, too.
Thanks for the pin! I hope you love it! They are so easy to make, I even make them for my oldest if we have started dinner and there is a battle I don’t want to fight! haha!
That looks fantastic! The best recipes are the ones that are easy to make but look like they took serious effort!
Thanks!
I use to LOVE chicken cup o’ noodles! Ok I still love them haha but this looks so much better!
I can till taste them in my mouth when I think back to them!
That is a quick easy meal idea. I think my family would love this!
As quick as making plain pasta! I love this meal 🙂
Can’t wait to try this one!
Awesome! And if you hold back on the sriracha just a bit the youngest kids would love it to. Our oldest had some for dinner last night 🙂
Way too salty! Other flavors blend but need to cut back on soy sauce for saltiness. I also added sautéed mushrooms and broccoli. Next time will make with 1/2 the soy sauce. Served with fried rice.
Sorry it was too salty for you! Maybe using Lite soy sauce would help?