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Rainbow Salad with Soba Noodles and Peanut Sauce

A tasty vegan soba noodle salad with spicy Thai-inspired peanut sauce dressing is a wonderful and healthy way to eat the rainbow! This recipe is customizable to use whatever veggies you have on hand.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course dinner, lunch
Cuisine Asian
Servings 4

Equipment

  • pot
  • knife or vegetable shredder
  • 2 bowls
  • sauce pan
  • food processor or blender

Ingredients
  

Noodles

  • 8 oz Soba noodles buckwheat
  • 1 red bell pepper cut or shredded
  • 2 medium carrots cut or shredded
  • 1 medium cucumber cut or shredded
  • 1/2 bunch green onions cut or shredded
  • fresh herbs for topping basil, cilantro, mint
  • optional: roasted peanuts, protein of choice

Sauce

  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1 zest from lime
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 2 inches fresh ginger minced
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce or tamari sauce
  • 1 tsp brown sugar, honey, or maple syrup
  • Optional: 1 jalapeño, 1/4 cup coconut milk, sriracha sauce

Instructions
 

  • 1.) Cook the noodles according to the package directions, they cook differently than pasta so make sure to read the instructions! Run under cool water, drain, and set aside. 
    2.) Prep the vegetables for your salad by cutting or shredding. If you want to make a rainbow in your bowl, separate vegetables by color, if you want to minimize dishes, mix veggies into one bowl. 
    3.) Chop green onions and herbs, set aside in a bowl to use as toppings.
    4.) Make your sauce! In a small sauce pan, heat up some neutral oil, add ginger and garlic and cook on medium heat until soft, about 3 minutes. Add in peanut butter, sugar, lime juice, soy sauce, and optional ingredients. Stir until warm and combined, about 2-3 minutes.
    5.) Remove from heat and blend with a hand blender, in a food processor, or with a standing blender. If it looks too think, add some liquid, if it looks too thin, add some more peanut butter.  
    6.) Assemble your salad: in a bowl, place noodles at the bottom and arrange vegetable on top in a rainbow, drizzle with peanut sauce, and sprinkle herbs on top! 
     
Keyword peanut sauce, Rainbow, Salad, Soba noodles, Vegetables
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