These vegetarian soba noodles with peanut sauce make for an easy and absolutely delicious meatless meal. Smothered in a creamy homemade peanut sauce and tossed with fresh vegetables and Thai basil, this tasty dish is perfect for easy lunches and quick dinners. Plus it’s ready in 30 minutes!
Few things are as comforting as a big bowl of noodles. Slather those soba noodles in homemade peanut sauce and its basically like a warm, delicious hug. These vegetarian soba noodles are naturally vegan, incredibly filling and so satisfying.
There are so many shortcuts making this a quick meal to make. Between using raw veggies, cooking the sauce while the noodles cook, and boiling the edamame with the noodles. It comes together quickly since the veggies don’t need to be cooked. Just chop, boil the noodles, whip up the peanut sauce, toss and dive in. Even if you eat meat, these vegetarian peanut noodles just might be a new favorite. I know they are for us!
This tasty vegan dinner is rich and flavorful but loaded with veggies. If you’re looking for another light and wholesome vegetarian meal or simply more easy noodle recipes like this, you won’t want to miss my easy 20-minute miso noodles! I have a recipe for teriyaki-inspired noodles that is always a hit too.
Ingredients
Soba peanut noodles is a really simple recipe to make since it doesn’t include any meat or cooked veggies. It looks like there’s a lot to it but most of the ingredients are for the peanut sauce and you just throw them in a pot, heat and stir.
In choosing soba noodles, there are oodles of options. Oodles of noodles if you will. Just make sure to get 100% buckwheat soba noodles if you want the most nutrition. If you want it to be gluten free, swap for rice noodles!
The ingredients are in the image below and a complete list is in the recipe card. Please note that for the homemade peanut sauce, you’ll need coconut milk, peanut butter, ginger, sugar, Thai red curry paste, apple cider vinegar, soy sauce, and lime juice as well.
Substitutions
There are endless variations in making soba with peanut sauce. I used carrots and red pepper as the veggies but you could easily swap these with snap peas, cucumber slices or something else that doesn’t need to be cooked.
You could probably swap out the basil for cilantro too if you want. And if you’re not a vegetarian and want it to be meaty, chicken would a seamless add in but any kind of protein would work really.
For the peanut sauce, you can swap out powdered ginger for fresh if needed. You can use any kind of sugar and white distilled vinegar can be used instead of the ACV too.
How to Make Soba Noodles with Peanut Sauce
- Boil the noodles.
- While the noodles cook, make the peanut sauce by combining all of the peanut sauce ingredients together in a saucepan and whisking together while it heats.
- Boil soba noodles and edamame beans together and then drain.
- Toss noodles, peanut sauce, veggies and basil together and enjoy!
Recipe Tips
- If you aren’t a spice lover, try just adding a half tablespoon of curry paste to start off and then add more if you want to take it up a notch. Spiciness really depends on the brand but you can always add more so err on the side of caution, taste, and adjust as needed.
- You an eat this dish hot or cold, making it the perfect lunch to take on the go. I like it better hot, but the next day when the flavors have melded, it’s great chilled or at room temperature.
30-Minute Soba Noodles with Homemade Peanut Sauce
Ingredients
- 8 ounces buckwheat soba noodles
- 2 carrots, peeled and julienned
- 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
- 10 ounce pkg. frozen pre-shelled edamame beans, defrosted
- 3 green onions, sliced
- ½ cup Thai basil leaves, roughly torn
- 1 ¾ cup Peanut sauce (1 full recipe)
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat.
- While water is coming to a boil, make peanut sauce (separate recipe linked above but included in total cooking time).
- Add soba noodles and edamame beans to boiling water and cook for about 4 minutes.
- Drain noodles and beans and toss with peanut sauce, carrot, red pepper, green onion, and basil. This dish can be eaten hot or chilled.
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Comments & Reviews
This looks delicious!
I think you’d like it! You can easily throw in some more veggies to lighten it up and use chicken to make it more filling. I just love that I’ve gotten Ted to start eating peanut butter. Those Europeans don’t know what they’re missing out on!
Thanks for the Mother’s Day thought and recipe. I will definitely try this soon! Peanuts and Soba noodles could be my new favorite thing! Love you! Mom