Ramen noodles

These ramen noodles are simple to make, I use a Philips Pasta Maker. I just dump the ingredients in and press some buttons. You can make this by hand also, but I don't have a pasta roller or cutter so I don't.

Serve these noodles with your favorite broth or as a cold noodle dish.

Pasta al Limone (With Shrimp)

This pasta dish is creamy and flavorful. The ingredients are simple and easy to find many times I already have them on hand. It's not a difficult dish to make but it is so good. perfect quick weeknight meal.

Japchae

Japchae is an easy noodle dish to make and it travels well. This is vegetarian, if you don't garnish with the egg it can be served as a vegan dish. The ingredients are fairly simple and can be found at major grocery stores or the Asian market. If you can't find the noodles however you can still make this, use a thicker rice noodle or soba. The sauce is the perfect marinade for the tofu recipe at the bottom of this post also. It's also great for chicken, beef, or pork.

Khao Piek Sen (Bánh Canh Noodles)

I am so happy with this recipe. I saw it shared on a Facebook page for noodle making. I changed the weights and ratios a bit to our liking. The original recipe calls for a total of 5 kneading cycles. and two longer rest preiods, and often I just don't have time for that. It doesn't matter I'm thankful she posted the recipe. Traditionally these noodles don't have potato starch or Xanthan Gum. I find that both give this noodle great texture.  The noodles are chewy and hold their shape well. I used weights for everything in this recipe, even the water is by weight/grams. I find it is more accurate.

Birds Nest Crispy Noodles

Isn't this a cute dish for Spring or even Easter for something non traditional? The little quail eggs in a nest made from Chinese egg noodles. I made these egg nest noodles like my Mee Korb, or Chinese Double Pan Fried Noodles dish. This is still a family favorite here. For the Egg Noodles I used this recipe posted HERE, but you can also purchase fresh Chinese egg noddles for this.

Unicorn Noodles For Spring Rolls

Look at this gorgeous color on these noodles. Blue and purple. I used an old standby that is used in Southeast Asian cuisine to color rice, desserts, and drinks. The Butterfly Pea flower is a beautifully vibrant flower that dyes two distinct colors. The blue you see on the far left is the regular flower.

Khao Poon Gai

Whole 30 Paleo Compliant Lao Khao Poon

Khao Poon Gai is a Lao curry noodle dish. It's fragrant, spicy, and so satisfying. The creamy coconut milk makes the broth silky smooth, the red curry paste gives it a aromatic kick. Traditionally this is serve with rice vermicelli noodles and there is bamboo in it. I'm doing a Whole 30 this month, and my family doesn't like bamboo, so there you go.  If you prefer rice noodles or veggie noodles I hope you'll try this soup. It's so good.

Lao Khao Poon ingredients.

Curry Shrimp Lettuce Wraps And Noodle Bowls

Curry Shrimp Lettuce wraps are a favorite around here. It's an easy meal to throw together and is pretty healthy. Lots of colorful veggies, it's a great way to get my kids to eat vegetables. I have posted Curry Shrimp before, made with a curry powder. This is a version made with Thai curry paste, both are flavorful and good. Just use your favorite kind of curry. Make this as spicy or mild as you like. If you don't like shrimp you can cook fish filet with these flavors, or even strips of chicken and use those in a wrap.

Khao Piek Sen- Lao Noodles (Philips Pasta Maker)

Khao Piek Sen is one of my favorite noodle soups. It's a Lao soup that has noodles made with rice and tapioca flour. Khao Piek Sen, literally "wet rice strands" in Lao are a gluten free noodle. I usually make these and cut them by hand. You can find that method here. The hand made and hand cut method is easy and uses less ingredients than this Philips Pasta Machine one. But it's nice to dump the ingredients into the machine and have it do the work sometimes.

Chinese Egg Noodles (Philips Pasta Maker)

Chinese Egg Noodle Soup, noodles made in the Philips Pasta Maker

Not too long ago my husband purchased a Philips Pasta Maker for me. I wasn't sure how I would like the machine, originally I just wanted something to roll and cut noodles for Khao Piek Sen. Nothing fancy. I have been using this machine for all sorts of noodles, curry flavored, black pepper, Italian basil, etc. It's really easy to use and it's pretty fast. Ten to fifteen minutes a cycle. For regular pasta I use one cycle and my water is ready and boiling on the stove by the time it's done. I have made the Khao Piek Sen in this machine also, I'm pleased with the results. I did have to tweak my original recipe and got help from other pasta machine owners. That's a whole other post though.

Double Pan Fried Noodles or Mee Korb

 Chinese New Year comes early this year so I thought I would share a favorite noodle dish around here. Double Pan Fried noodles are an absolute favorite way to have noodles at our house. They have always been a childhood favorite of mine also. If you haven't had them, make sure you try them the next time you're out for Chinese food. Or make them at home.

You can use any vegetables or protein you like for this, just stir fry it all up and ladle over the noodles. YUM!

Here's the method for Double Pan Fried Noodles or Mee Korb, is what we call it.

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Vermicelli Noodle Bowl

An oldie but goodie. Not the picture, but Vermicelli Noodle Bowls. I put either these or Spring Rolls on our menu at least once every two weeks. They are just so easy and everyone here enjoys it! Win win here at the Give Peas A Chance household!

Find the recipe and more below-

Make them grain/noodle free by using a spiral slicer like this one that we love for vegetable noodles.

Here are links related to these great noodle bowls, recipes, and Spring Rolls also

Related posts-

Vermicelli Salad

Spring Rolls  
Spring Rolls Manic Monday

Vietnamese Egg Rolls

Egg Rolls

Nam Pla Dressing

Vermicelli Salad Bentos/Lunches

More Lunches

Khao Piek Sen- Lao Chicken Noodle Soup (Gluten Free)

I've posted Khao Piek Sen before, the original post is here. I haven't change much of anything in these noodles but they are so easily adapted and flavored. It's not traditional but I've listed some add in options at the bottom of this post. I will say this, you should make these without anything first, pure, simple, and easy. The way they were intended. Just a good flavorful broth for the noodles to swim in.

Manic Monday- Curry Noodle Bowl

 

One of our very favorite meals here at Give Peas A Chance is this Curry "Noodle" Bowl. Very simple, very easy to make. I've also made it without the lemongrass, ginger, and fresh garlic, simply because I didn't have them on hand. This meal is perfect for weeknights, the broth comes together quickly. Garnishes can be prepared the night before.

Click on the picture above to make it larger to read the print if it's too small. Then go to the original Curry "Noodle" Bowl post, and make some tonight! Need some Curry Powder? We've got you covered, follow the link here.

Happy "Manic Monday". Find more "ManIc MoNdaY" posts here.

You can find this on Chowstalker too!

Pad See Ew

This is one of my favorite noodle dishes to order at a Thai restaurant. Both Pad See Ew and Lad Na. I love ordering these dishes out because most of the time they are so very good. I've mentioned it lamented about this before, but it's those darn BTU's that those pro stoves are pumping out. Such delicious hot wok flavor. My girls and I love it. I very very rarely, to never order Pad Thai. Just not my thing to eat out I guess.
This Pad See Ew is very easy to make, you can use pantry staples. If you can't find Chinese broccoli, substitute regular broccoli. I've done both, and so has my mom.
I have used both dry and fresh noodles while making this. The last two times I've made this I used dry noodles, because the fresh ones in store lately have had peanut oil tossed in with them to keep them from sticking. There's no way I'd risk that with Diva. If you can find the thick fresh rice noodles, skip the soaking step. Bring them to room temperature before separating them by hand into a big bowl to prepare them.

Black soy sauce is thicker, and has a different flavor than regular thinner soy sauce. It's not hard to find at most Asian markets.

Manic Monday- Double Pan Fried Noodles (Mee Korb)

Welcome to my first Wordless Wednesday here on GPAC. As you can see, it's not wordless. It's more of a "Repeat/Wordless Wednesday". I'm going to try to post some oldie but goodie recipes/posts from GPAC on Wednesday's. I'll take new pictures of some items if we happen to have it on our menu. I'll also post those pictures I find in my "not yet blogged" folders on my hard drive. Some will actually be wordless, I don't know how many though. I'm not even sure how many Wednesday's I'll be posting.

If you're blogging do you have certain days you post things? Meatless Mondays? Wordless Wednesday's? Do you find it easier to blog this way? More challenging? What about "cooking clubs" do you belong to any of those? Let me know about them!

Quick Udon Noodle Stir Fry

This is so very quick and easy. Pixie and I had it for lunch one day. I just made it with what I had in the fridge, the Udon noodles were in my freezer. I haven't tried this with fried Udon noodles. You can use any noodles you want, even linguine. I used steak, it's what I had but sliced pork, chicken, shrimp, tofu would work also. Any vegetables you like would work also.

GPAC Quick Udon Noodle Stir Fry

Steak, sliced 1 clove minced garlic
1 tablespoon oil, olive, coconut, or vegetable
1 teaspoon of sesame oil
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
black or white pepper

1/2 cup of sliced or julienne carrots
1/2 cup of broccoli florets

Serve with Sriracha 
 

Blanch the broccoli and carrots, rinse with cold water.

Heat the oils in a pan or dutch oven, add minced garlic. 

Toss the steak in there and cook until almost done, with the oyster sauce, onion powder, pepper, soy sauce. 

Remove meat and sauce from the pan. 

Don't clean the pan. Toss in the noodles and veggies to heat up. 

Add the steak and sauce to the pan. Heat through. 

*You can add a splash of broth if you need it.
I served with sriracha. A sprinkling of sesame seeds, and fresh cilantro would be excellent.

Curry "Noodle" Bowl

MMMM YUMMM. This is so very good, and everyone LOVES it. So very good. It's a quick meal and heats up well. A little heat from the curry and chili powders. Creamy and rich from the stock and coconut milk. It's grain free, sugar free, and dairy free also. Check your coconut milk and fish sauce ingredients to make sure they don't have any added ingredients that you don't want to be eating.
The curry can be made spicy or mild to your liking. Homemade curry powder is most flavorful if you make yours. I like to make big batches at a time.

More yumminess

Asian Style Coleslaw

I've already posted this recipe HERE. I haven't made it in a while, so I did the other day and the older girls loved it. So I thought I would post again.

Looking for Cole Slaw?
Spicy Broccoli Slaw
Asian Style Slaw
Simple Cabbage Salad

Primal/Paleo Pho

So, I love Pho (I have a couple recipes posted). I'm not 100% Primal. I have no issues with white rice and I just try to eat less grains. I decided to try carrot and daikon "noodles". I shredded them with my fancy schmancy $12 shredder. Lurch Spirali, thank you TJMaxx.

Here is what the carrot (that was one BIG carrot) and the daikon looked like. They came out in long spiral strands.

Daikon

To serve the Pho with these "noodles" I put them in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, depending on how tender you want them. 

Tonight I started everyone off with a mixture of rice noodles and the carrot and daikon. Everyone but Pixie loved it.  Dh had his second bowl with just the carrot and daikon noodles. Diva and Piglet ate it right up. Pixie, who loves daikon and asks for it in soup didn't like it. Which is fine, as her mom I still require her to eat what's put in front of her or take at least a couple of bites. It will (maybe) grow on her.

This is a bowl WITH rice noodles. You can tell the daikon is more transparent. It has a good bite to it. The carrot was surprising to me, I thought it would be too sweet. But it didn't taste sweet at all. I'll serve these noodles with Pho from now on. I will still serve the rice noodles, but I'm all about adding fresh veggies to meals. Great alternative for Primal/Paleo dieters.