Based on DanDan noodles, this spicy noodle dish with sweet and salty flavours has quickly become a comfort food for me. I ended up substituting a few ingredients, adding pak choi, and making this a vegetarian-friendly easy meal for when I don’t feel like cooking anything fancy.

What You Will Need

• Minced Garlic
• Chilli Flakes
• Pepper
• Sesame Seeds
• Oil
• Soy Sauce
• Vinegar
• Noodles (I used rice noodles)
• Pak Choi
• Cumin
• Tomato Passata Sauce
• Salt
• Peanut Butter
• Optional: Chia Seeds, Lemon Juice

Instructions

1. Firstly, we need to make our sauce. I added the spices, vinegar, soy sauce, salt, pepper, sesame/ chia seeds, and peanut butter to the pan with a splash of oil on a low heat.

3. Add your oil to the pan and place your pak choi stems to brown slightly, turn them after a few minutes and add some lemon juice. They are done when tender.

4. Add your desired noodles to a pan of water with a sprinkle of salt and cook for the recommended time, rice noodles take 2- 3 minutes.

5. Add your sauce to the cooked noodles and mix together, you can add your pak choi on top (place artfully on top and pretend you are on a cooking show if desired).

Pak Choi/ Bok Choy

As a cruciferous vegetable pak choi is rich in antioxidants, full of fibre, nutrients and minerals. These health benefits include: the prevention of cancer, fighting inflammation in the body, lowering the risk of heart disease, improving bone, skin, eye, immune, and skin health.

So overall, a pretty SUPER food!

Rating

I’d give this meal 5 out of 5 barnabies. It’s quick but nutritious and tasty! If you like spicy then this one is worth a go.

“My mouth is burning off but I can’t stop eating it!”

As Barnaby famously said.

Check out my last recipe of Strawberry and Rhubarb crumble bars here!