Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Indonesian Peanut Sauce, p 667

Indonesian Peanut Sauce, p 667
Indonesia
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 25-30 minutes
WW Pts (cutting oil to 1 T): 8
WW Pts (as directed): 8
Bonus: versatile flavorful sauce, adds protein, fats & texture to steamed veggies and/or noodles, can probably take shortcut by using peanut butter instead of grinding
Bummer: chopping and grinding

In the 19 or so years I've been a vegetarian, I've eaten many versions of sesame and/or peanut noodles - some from restaurants and some homemade. I decided a while ago that it mostly wasn't worth buying sesame/peanut noodles because I could just make them better. I haven't done that until now. This peanut sauce went extremely well with the soba noodles and I will definitely make this again.
Full Disclosure: Upon draining, soba noodles were treated with a few drops (maybe 1/2 tsp) of toasted sesame oil to prevent stickiness and add subtle flavor.

Other than the shallot chopping, and peanut grinding, this was a pretty quick & easy recipe. The recipe calls sfor the peanuts to be finely chopped, but I stopped short of that because I was afraid to turn it into peanut butteer, although it probably would have been fine had I used good quality pre-made peanut butter.

I served this sauce over soba noodles with steamed broccoli, pan-fried tempeh, and raw bell pepper.

Leftovers
I stored the leftover sauce in a covered container in the refrigerator for about five days and then heated it up and served it over noodles. It was still delicious.

3 comments:

Michelle said...

Yum -- I was just looking at this recipe yesterday! And today marks 3 weeks, and I renewed the book. Yeah! I might make this cause I'm hungry right now.

krissy said...

hiya, thanks so much for stopping by my blog! i'm so glad you left a comment because i'm *thrilled* to find your blog....i just took "world vegetarian" out of the library about a week ago after drooling over the pics posted on michelle's blog. when my life slows down in a week or so, i'm going to dive in and try some recipes. i'm going to have to read through and see which have been successful for you. (sorry, i just wrote an essay-length comment....)

Stacey said...

It's okay - long comments are fine, I have a tendency to go way longer than you just did.

There's a post from about 3 weeks ago where I listed some favorites for Michelle. It can be an intimidating book, and I felt like very few people understood why I love it so much, so I decided to write a user's guide. I hope you enjoy.