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These Spicy Peanut Noodles with Sesame Meatballs are such a delicious weeknight meal! Soy sauce, ginger, peanut butter, red peppers, and honey come together to make a tangy sauce that will make your taste buds dance. This recipe is easy and can be made in about 30-40 minutes with ingredients that are in your pantry!
Spicy peanut noodles and sesame meatballs are the perfect combination of flavors. With orange and red peppers, zucchini squash, and red onions, you get a nice healthy helping of vegetables and a good source of protein from the sesame meatballs. Flavorful AND healthy! Does it get any better?
For this recipe, I used my favorite peanut butter from Spread the Love. It’s creamy and doesn’t contain any filler ingredients! That means no added sugar, salt, hydrogenated oils – no junk!
I am so excited to share this recipe! If you’ve been following Britney Breaks Bread you know that I pour my heart into every recipe. Let’s talk about it!
For the meatballs, you can use ground turkey or ground pork. Ground pork is my preference, but I know many people do not eat swine.
This recipe was also featured in The Pioneer Woman’s “20 Ground Pork Recipes for Easy Dinners”! Go check out the roundup of delicious recipes to make!
I used garlic, salt, pepper, sesame oil, red onions, and red pepper to season the meat and then rolled them into little balls and fried them stove top!
Any noodle shape can be used for this recipe, just use what you have on hand. Pictured here is linguine but feel free to get creative. Another key for this recipe is to sprinkle peanuts and sesame seeds on top. It’s not only pleasing to the eye, but it gives the dish a nice crunch!
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Spicy Peanut Noodles with Sesame Meatballs
Ingredients
Sesame Meatballs
- 2 lbs Ground Turkey
- 1 tsp Kosher Salt, (more or less as desired)
- 1 tsp Black Pepper, (more or less as desired)
- 1/4 cup Green Onions, (diced)
- 1/2 Red Onion, (diced)
- 2 tbsps Sesame Oil
- 2 cloves Garlic, (diced)
- 1 tsp Red Pepper Flakes, (more or less as desired)
Spicy Peanut Sauce
- 1/2 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1/2 cup Soy Sauce
- 2 tsp Red Pepper Flakes
- 1 thumb Fresh Ginger, (peeled)
- 2 tbsps Sesame Oil
- 1/4 cup Honey
Noodles
- 1 pack of Noodles, any kind
- 2 Bell Peppers, (sliced)
- 1 Zucchini, (sliced)
- Sesame seeds, for garnish
- Peanuts, for garnish
- Fresh mint leaves, for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients for the meatballs and mix well. Roll into little balls.
- Over medium heat, add olive to a large pan, enough to coat the bottom, add meatballs and cook for about 2-3 minutes on all sides, until golden. Remove from pan and add zucchini and bell peppers. Saute until zucchini begins to brown.
- Cook noodles according to box instructions.
- Combine all of the ingredients for the peanut sauce in a food processor or a blender and blend until smooth.
- Add meatballs and noodles back into the pan with the veggies, pour in sauce and toss so that all of the noodles are coated.
- Garnish with peanuts, sesame seeds, and mint.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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This was fantastic. I made it with pork because that’s what I had on hand, and I think almost any protein could work here. I will keep this one handy and can think of other uses for that peanut sauce like dipping egg rolls and dumplings. Yum.
Thank you!
I was browsing for some uses for ground pork and saw this. Ingredients list looked good, so I got some udon and made it. Very tasty but a couple of comments:
– This is VERY, excessively oily. The seasme oil IN the meatballs, which is made more oily when the pork renders its own fats. Olive oil in the pan, “enough to COAT the bottom”, which is a LOT of olive oil, when you’re making what is basically a one-pan dish. The peanut butter contains oil. It gave a greasy feel to the sauce, which it does NOT need. I bailed nearly a tuna can full of oil before adding the veggies and had maybe a tablespoon left, which was PLENTY.
– While it tastes great and is mostly authentic, there is no acid balance at all, which makes it somewhat heavy and cloying. I added a dash of rice vinegar and one squeeze of fresh lime and it brightened it considerably.
– It also needed something with some heat, even if you just listed it as an option. I used a teaspoon of Thai chili garlic sauce, which helped.
– Purely subjective, of course, but with that much soy sauce in it, the sauce is very dark. Keeping some of the golden color on the peanut butter would have helped with the aesthetics.
Bear in mind when reading this that I think it is a FINE, authentic recipe but I was a chef for 34 years and spent two years with a noted Thai chef, so these are kinda picky observations.
Thanks for the ideas!
I appreciate your insight! Thank you!
Super tasty! Goes well with a bit of lime and cilantro on top as well 😆💓. Thanks for the easy and tasty meal idea!
Anytime, so glad that you enjoyed it! 🙂
Easy and delicious. Love the bit of heat.
I’m so glad that you enjoyed it!
Can I bake the meatballs instead? If so, at why temperature and for how long?
Absolutely, I would bake the meatballs at 400 for about 15-20 minutes.
Oh my gosh this is delicious! Great flavors!
Thank you! I’m so happy that you enjoyed this recipe!
We loved this! I made the sauce as written & loved it. I made it w/o the spice because off my 7 year old and it was still great. The pork was such a nice complement to the noodles.
I’m so happy to hear this, thank you!
Everything was great until I made the sauce without any water. Straight peanut butter and soy sauce was way too salty. I thinned the sauce with quite a bit of water and added cornstarch for a little thickening. I probably used less than a cup of the sauce on the meatballs and the meal was great. Thanks so much!
thanks so much for your feedback! I’m so happy that you were able to tailor this recipe to your liking!