Thai
Thai Peanut Noodles with Tofu
Thai Peanut Noodles with Tofu is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 12 oz rice noodles
- 14 oz extra-firm tofu
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 tbsp lime juice
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 cups shredded carrots
- 4 scallions
- 1/3 cup chopped peanuts
- 2 tbsp neutral oil
How to cook it
- Cook the rice noodles according to the package, then drain and rinse under cool water.
- Whisk the peanut butter, soy sauce, lime juice, brown sugar, ginger, sesame oil, and a splash of warm water into a pourable sauce.
- Heat the neutral oil in a skillet and pan-fry the diced tofu until golden, about 8 minutes.
- Toss the noodles with the peanut sauce until evenly coated.
- Fold in the tofu and shredded carrots.
- Top with scallions and chopped peanuts and serve at room temperature.
Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Thai Peanut Noodles with Tofu, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Thai Peanut Noodles with Tofu carries peanuts, gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | Yes | Drunken Noodles with Chicken |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Larb Gai |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Larb Gai |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Drunken Noodles with Chicken |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Pulses, Vegetables, and Nuts and seeds
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Thai Peanut Noodles with Tofu takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on noodle, peanut, and tofu.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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