Thai Peanut Noodle Salad | Our Best Bites

By mrboyton

Ingredients

• 8 oz Linguine Fini (or regular linguine)
• 4 C shredded greens: any combo of napa cabbage, romaine lettuce or even spinach
• 2 C thinly sliced purple cabbage
• 1/2 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
• 1/2 yellow pepper, thinly sliced
• 1 medium carrot, julienned
• 1/2 medium cucumber, halved and sliced
• 1/4 of a red onion, thinly sliced
• 3 C diced grilled chicken
• honey roasted peanuts (about 1/2 cup)
• Thai Peanut Salad Dressing (save some time and make this part ahead!)

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from ourbestbites.com

Preparation

Step 1

Start by bringing a pot of water to a boil. Add a spoonful of salt and then add your pasta. While pasta is cooking, start chopping those veggies.

You can really use any mix of veggies you want. I have a thing with rainbows, so whenever I make this type of salad I pick the vegetables purely based on color so I can have something in every shade of the rainbow. I think it makes for a happy salad and happy salad makes happy people. But use what you like, pretty much anything slathered in this dressing is going to taste good. For me, it’s this stuff:

See, happy right?? I mentioned you can play around with the leafy greens. I like to use both napa cabbage and romaine lettuce. If you’re eating this right away lettuce works great, and spinach is even good in there. However, if you’re taking it to a picnic, or serving it on a buffet or anything like that where it will sit a while, I recommend going heavy on the cabbage because it will stay nice and crunchy for ya.

As soon as your pasta is done drain it and run some cold water over it until it’s cool. If you’re not going to use it right away, add a drizzle of the salad dressing and stir to coat. This will prevent the noodles from getting all clumpy. Keep in the fridge until ready to use.

When you’re ready to assemble the salad, place noodles, veggies, and chicken in a large bowl.

Pour the Thai Peanut Dressing over everything, stirring as you go until you have enough to coat. I use it all!

Sprinkle peanuts on top and garnish with some cilantro if you want. And there you have one happy, pretty, and extremely delicious salad!