Rainbow Thai Noodle Salad with Peanut Lime Dressing
A rainbow Thai noodle salad loaded with shredded chicken, sliced veggies, and drizzled with a quick, homemade peanut lime dressing that's the perfect balance of sweet, spicy, and tangy! Eat it at room temp or straight cold from the fridge, it's so good!
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
Peanut-Lime Dressing:
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 teaspoons EACH: minced garlic AND minced ginger
- 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 1-3 tablespoons sriracha sauce
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 2-4 tablespoons hot water
Thai Noodle Salad:
- 2 cups cooked shredded chicken
- 7 ounces of whole wheat spaghetti rice noodles, soba noodles, or veggie noodles
- 1 1/2 cups shredded purple cabbage
- 1/2 cup EACH: chopped basil AND chopped cilantro
- 1/4 cup chopped scallions
- 1 1/2 red bell peppers thinly sliced
- chopped peanuts toasted sesame seeds, and lime wedges, for serving
Instructions
- Noodles: Heat a large pot of boiling water and cook the noodles according to package directions.
- Dressing: Combine all the ingredients for the dressing in a bowl except the hot water and whisk together, add 2 tablespoons of water and continue to whisk. Raise the whisk to see if the dressing easily falls in ribbons, add additional water to help thin dressing until it does. Taste the dressing, adjust the salt and sriracha to preference.
- Assemble: In a large bowl, toss together the noodles with the dressing. Add the chicken, cabbage, basil, cilantro, scallions, and bell peppers. Toss everything together. If the dressing appears to be too thick, add a little bit more hot water to help stir everything together. Taste and adjust salt and pepper. When serving, top with chopped peanuts and toasted sesame seeds. I like to serve with additional lime wedges because you can never have enough!
Notes
- This recipe uses most of the veggies I've usually got on hand and that we're always scrambling to finish before the clock runs out, you can certainly add other veggies to this recipe too!
