My husband asks me to make this recipe for him all the time. Outside of my 10 Garlic Clove Marinated Grilled Steak recipe, this Thai Peanut Chicken Pasta is his favorite dish I make. If you like peanut butter…you’ll love this recipe! I found this recipe years ago from The South Beach Diet and it has stayed a regular recipe in our house! This one is really fast and easy to make, but you may need to head to your local grocery because this delicious pasta dish calls for ingredients that you may not have in your kitchen…like napa cabbage, dark sesame oil, rice vinegar and soba noodles!
I use soba noodles in this dish because soba noodles have some great nutritional benefits! Soba noodles are a great source of fiber and they are lower in calories than your typical pasta. But let’s take a minute to talk about soba noodles because some brands of soba noodles are gluten free and some are not. If the soba noodles you buy are “pure buckwheat noodles” then you are good…those are gluten free. Read the labels on the package to ensure you know what type of soba noodles you are buying. Eden Foods makes a 100% buckwheat soba noodle and I highly recommend their brand. You can check out the kind I use in this Thai Peanut Chicken Pasta here: Eden Foods Soba Noodles. If you are not gluten free and you are not interested in soba noodles for this dish and you want to make this Thai Peanut Chicken Pasta with regular wheat pasta, use linguine. I’ve had people ask me about using quinoa noodles in this dish. I don’t recommend making this Thai Peanut Chicken Pasta dish with quinoa noodles. Quinoa is naturally dry and the pasta needed for this dish needs to have some moisture! Ok, fun fact of the day….buckwheat is not a wheat but rather a plant in the carrot family. It is the seed kernels of the flowers, is naturally low in fat, high in iron, and gluten free!
You’re going to love this recipe and I love that this pasta dish is healthy! A healthy pasta dish…who’d have thunk it! And with that…Happy Eats!
Recipe source: inspired by South Beach Diet
