Spicy Peanut Soba Noodle Salad

This Spicy Peanut Soba Noodle Salad includes red peppers, cabbage, chicken, soba noodles, and a fast homemade spicy peanut sauce. Salads do not get much yummier than this.

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Soba Noodle Salad!

It’s (slightly) spicy. It’s peanutty and noodley. It’s a good friend to all veggies. It’s salad that’s … not actually a salad.

It’s got huge punchy taste from fresh garlic and lime juice, and it’s very filling thanks to that velvety peanut sauce and the twisted stack of carbohydrates called soba noodles, and it’s likewise vibrant and crispy and fresh, so yes, it is my preferred classification of food.

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Can We Speak About How Cool Soba Noodles Are?

Very first things initially soba is so cool.

Close-up of soba noodles.
Soba noodles boiling a pot.

It can be found in those little lots covered with a little strip of charming paper, and after it’s prepared and taken in some sauce (peanut sauce is life), it ends up being so rewarding and chewy in the manner in which just the very best noodle-based salads of the world can be.

However hi, think what? It’s likewise gluten complimentary due to the fact that soba = buckwheat.

And guess what x2? This noodle circumstance is a dream for all those subtle cooks out there due to the fact that it can be consumed straight-up cold. Delicious and vibrant and flavor-boss-mode, ideal out of the refrigerator. Which is generally how I consume half of my noodles to start with, so I think this is all exercising according to strategy.

Ingredients for Spicy Peanut Soba Noodle Salad.

Soba Noodle Salad Your Method

For this dish, I really reviewed an older soba noodle salad dish from 2014-ish that had actually been long given that forgotten and modified it simply somewhat:

A little more heat, some brand-new veg, and a swap of lime juice for vinegar.

This is simply how I did mine (bell peppers, chicken, often some purple cabbage or cilantro), however you are taking a look at a dish that is asking to be personalized.

Make it with additional chicken. Or meatless. With just green veggies. Or spicier peanut sauce. It’s absolutely your call, and it’s absolutely going to be bomb scrumptious when you pull it out of the refrigerator for lunch/dinner/snack/ repeat.

Close-up of soba noodles and bell peppers.

So What Are Soba Noodles Made Of?

Soba noodles are made from 100% buckwheat flour.

So … what’s buckwheat flour then? Precisely what you ‘d believe: flour ground from buckwheat. Buckwheat is naturally gluten-free and likewise has 4 times as much fiber than routine flour. Wowzers.

Buckwheat flour provides soba noodles a really tasty and really scrumptious texture and taste. And it benefits you to boot!

Spicy Peanut Soba Noodle Salad in a bowl with a fork.

Would it be odd to state I enjoy for you? Advantages ahead, Soba Traveler.

Spicy Peanut Soba Noodle Salad wrapped around a fork.

Let’s Keep The Noodle Salad Love Going

Typical Concerns About Our Spicy Peanut Soba Noodle Salad

Can this salad be prepped ahead of time?

Yes! If you’re making this ahead of time, toss whatever together other than the veggies. Those are best when included right before serving.

This seems like salad that’s heavy on the noodles. Is that right?

Our preferred type of salads are heavy on the noodles! As composed, yes, this dish is heavy on the noodles. If you desire a greater chicken/veg to noodles ratio, you might double the quantity of chicken, or veggies, or whatever you desire.

Is this adequate sauce for 8 portions?

It is, technically, however often I double the sauce due to the fact that I am a sauce hog. In my viewpoint, you can never ever fail with a little additional peanut sauce in the refrigerator.

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