Peanut Sesame Noodles with Crunchy Vegetables
- 25 mintotal time
- $0.96£0.78a serving
- 502465calories
- 1816 gprotein
Serves 4; price is an estimate. Dinner Plan is a paid weekly plan for your household and budget. You see your week before you pay.
Warm noodles in a creamy peanut, lime and soy sauce, topped with crisp cucumber and carrot.
Ingredients
Serves 4.
- 11 oz egg noodles
- 3 oz creamy peanut butter
- 1 lime
- 1½ tbsp fresh ginger, grated
- 1 garlic clove, grated
- 1 cucumber
- 5 oz carrots
- ½ bunch green onions
- 4 large eggs, to serve (optional)
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp honey
- 2 tsp toasted sesame oil
- ½ tsp red pepper flakes, to serve (optional)
Contains: wheat (gluten), egg, peanuts, soy, sesame. Always read the labels if you cook for someone with an allergy.
Method
- If using eggs, boil them for 7 minutes (10 minutes for firm yolks for young children, older people or anyone pregnant), cool in cold water, then peel and halve.
- Cook the noodles according to the packet. Drain and rinse briefly under warm water.
- Whisk the creamy peanut butter, soy sauce, juice of the lime, honey, toasted sesame oil, fresh ginger and garlic with 4–5 tablespoons of hot water until smooth and pourable.
- Cut the cucumber and carrots into thin matchsticks and slice the green onions.
- Toss the noodles with the sauce, pile into bowls and top with the vegetables, the eggs, and red pepper flakes if using.
Leftovers: Fridge 2 days; eat cold or loosen with hot water. Keep the vegetables separate.
Ingredients
Serves 4.
- 300 g medium egg noodles
- 90 g smooth peanut butter
- 1 lime
- 10 g fresh ginger, grated
- 1 garlic clove, grated
- 1 cucumber
- 150 g carrots
- ½ bunch spring onions
- 4 eggs, to serve (optional)
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp honey
- 2 tsp toasted sesame oil
- ½ tsp chilli flakes, to serve (optional)
Contains: gluten, egg, peanuts, soya, sesame. Always read the labels if you cook for someone with an allergy.
Method
- If using eggs, boil them for 7 minutes (10 minutes for firm yolks for young children, older people or anyone pregnant), cool in cold water, then peel and halve.
- Cook the noodles according to the packet. Drain and rinse briefly under warm water.
- Whisk the smooth peanut butter, soy sauce, juice of the lime, honey, toasted sesame oil, fresh ginger and garlic with 4–5 tablespoons of hot water until smooth and pourable.
- Cut the cucumber and carrots into thin matchsticks and slice the spring onions.
- Toss the noodles with the sauce, pile into bowls and top with the vegetables, the eggs, and chilli flakes if using.
Leftovers: Fridge 2 days; eat cold or loosen with hot water. Keep the vegetables separate.
Nutrition per serving
| Calories | 502 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 18 g |
| Carbohydrate | 73 g |
| Fat | 18 g |
| Fiber | 6 g |
| Sodium | 803 mg |
| Calories | 465 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 16 g |
| Carbohydrate | 68 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Fibre | 7 g |
| Sodium | 1131 mg |
Worked out from the ingredients, 256 g a serving; optional extras and salt to taste aren't counted. US and UK values differ a little because each uses that country's food data and products. US values from USDA FoodData Central.UK values from McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
What it costs
About $0.96 a serving in the US (range $0.73–$1.27) and £0.78 in the UK (range £0.60–£1.03). That's the share of each ingredient this recipe uses; basics like oil, salt and spices aren't counted.
Prices are estimates. Item prices come from public price data where available (US: Bureau of Labor Statistics and USDA; UK: Office for National Statistics). Where that data has no match, we use our own estimate. Ranges set using Open Prices data (Open Food Facts, ODbL). Prices as of October 2026. How we estimate
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