This simple and flavourful Asian-inspired vegan noodle salad is quick and delicious, especially with pizazz from the easy peanut sauce.
Commissioned post.
Vegan Noodle Salad with Peanut Sauce
I love the vibrant, fresh flavours in an Asian-inspired noodle salad. It's endlessly customisable and you can use whatever summery vegetables you have to hand. Feel free to substitute in spiralised sweet potato, cucumber or beets - they all add their own unique flavour. The peanut sauce has a big depth of flavour from the rice wine vinegar and tamari. The salad is then spiced up with some dried chilli flakes and served with a squeeze of lime.
This time of year, as the days grow longer and the air warmer, I suddenly crave more fresh vegetables and cold salads. Winter is a time for lentil dhal, kale and ale stew and lentil soup. But now, with spring quietly approaching, I want salads. This noodle salad is perfect for conjuring images of warm days, exotic holidays and lighter nights. Roll on Spring!
Get the Vegan Noodle Salad with Peanut Sauce Recipe
If you make this easy vegan noodle salad recipe, please tag it with #veggiedesserts on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. I LOVE seeing your recreations of my recipes!
Also, pop down to the comment and let me know how you got on with the recipe. It’s always great to hear from my readers. Your support allows me write this UK food blog and bring you vegetable cake recipes as well as vegan desserts, plus savoury vegetarian and vegan recipes and breakfasts and drinks.
📖 Recipe
Vegan Noodle Salad with Peanut Sauce
Ingredients
For the noodle salad:
- 50 g rice noodles
- 4 spring onions (scallions) cut into thin strips
- 3 carrots spiralised or cut into thin strips
- 1 red pepper deseeded and cut into thin strips
For the peanut dressing:
- 2 tablespoon smooth peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- ½ tablespoon tamari or soy sauce
- ½ tablespoon maple syrup
- salt and pepper
To serve:
- Heck Thai Bites cooked according to package instructions
- 2 tablespoon unsalted peanuts
- 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
- Lime wedges
- chilli flakes to taste
Instructions
- Boil a kettle and then soak the noodles according to package instructions (approx 3 minutes). Drain, run under cold water, drain again.
- Pile the vegetables into a bowl with the noodles.
- Make the dressing, by whisking all dressing ingredients together. Whisk in just enough cold water to make a thick drizzling consistency.
- Drizzle the dressing over the salad and top with the peanuts, sesame seeds, chilli flakes and wedges of lime.
- Excellent served with Heck Thai Bites.
Nutrition
The nutritional information provided is approximate and can vary depending on several factors, so is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please see a registered dietician for special diet advice.
PIN FOR LATER!
Disclosure: This recipe for Easy Vegan Noodle Salad with Peanut Sauce was commissioned by Heck to go with their Thai Bites. All opinions are my own. Thanks for supporting the brands that allow me to mess up my kitchen and write Veggie Desserts.
Anna Johnston
Love the sound of adding Maple Syrup into the Peanut sauce too and shall have to be on the look out for Heck Vegge products. I'm having a great time trawling your fabulous blog Kate.
Sean@Diversivore
Gotta love a good noodle salad, and that dressing sounds super tasty. Does the maple syrup add a particularly distinctive or noticeable flavour to the sauce? I can't say that I've ever thought about mixing maple and peanut butter, but it seems like a good idea to me!
Amanda
I've never seen those Thai bites! Will have to look for them in my market. What a beautiful, vibrant salad. Peanut sauce is my weakness!
Kristina @ Love & Zest
What a vibrant and versatile meal. I love that it can be thrown on noodles or rice. Wish I could pull it right out of the screen to try, but I guess I will just have to add it to my list to make some day instead!
Elizabeth @ SugarHero.com
Peanut sauce is my absolute weakness! This looks so fresh, healthy, and delicious!
Katrin
Wow, this looks like such a delicious meal. Can't wait to try it!
kellie@foodtoglow
I've only just discovered the Heck veggie products, finally buying one when it was on special offer at Waitrose. We just had them plain as a "stop-gap" with some sweet chilli sauce but I can see form your lovely salad how versatile they are. Lovely idea and images 🙂
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche
Yum! Those Thai bites sound really interesting - I love some of Heck's other stuff but haven't tried those yet. Like little Thai falafel!
Bintu | Recipes From A Pantry
I really, really wanna try the Heck Thai bites as they sound amazing. I have them on the top of my shopping list.
Jacqueline
Loving this salad, in fact now would be good for eating it. I know my husband would love it too. We've tried the Heck range & it is good, but I only see it now and again, so grabvit when I do. Thanks for linking to me.
Deepa
I am feeling hungry after looking at the pics and this salad looks yummy. I love peanuts and this sauce looks great.
Ceri Jones
This looks like such a fresh and delicious meal kate. I wanna try those thai bites!
Patti
Thanks for the recipe. Looks really delicious. I'm going to have to try it!
Lucy @ Supergoldenbakes
The Thai Bites sound great - I may give them a try instead of falafels. Your gorgeous noodle salad is the perfect accompaniment.
Choclette
Ooh I've not tried Heck's Thai bites, will look out for them. I've been impressed with their other veggie offerings. Your peanut salad and sauce sound delicious and a perfect accompaniment.
Tracey
This looks like a really delicious salad - and a healthy one. I particualrly like to add seasonal ingredients to my meals too as they tend to taste so much better. Tx
Michelle @ Greedy Gourmet
Beautiful food. Who needs meat, eh? This year I started on my journey towards vegetarianism and ultimately want to be a vegan, yet on some days my enthusiasm wanes and I'm left wondering whether I'll be able to survive. This kind of food convinces me it's possible to enjoy.