Cold oriental noodles with peanut sauce

Ingredients

  • 1 lbs spaghetti
  • 1/4 cup sesame oil
  • 1/2 cup Natural style creamy Peanut
  • butter
  • 1/3 cup Tamari soy sauce
  • 3 tbsp sherry
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 1 1/2 tbsp rice vinegar|rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar#About Brown sugar|light brown sugar -- firmly
  • Packed
  • 3 cloves garlic -- finely
  • Minced
  • 1 tsp ginger|ginger root -- minced
  • 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes --
  • Crushed
  • 1 cucumber -- peeled and
  • Sliced
  • 4 Scallions -- thinly sliced

Directions

1 Cook the spaghettini al dente.

2 Drain and rinse under cold water.

3 Drain very well again.

4 With your hands, toss the noodles with half of the sesame oil.

5 Cover and chill until ready to combine with the Peanut sauce, or up to 24 hours.

6 To make the Peanut sauce, combine the remaining sesame oil with all the other ingredients except the cucumber and scallion.

7 Beat until well mixed.

8 The sauce can be kept in the refrigerator, covered, for up to 24 hours before serving.

9 Just before serving, gently toss the noodles with the sauce, cucumbers and half the scallions.

10 Garnish with the remaining scallions
This article uses material from the "Cold oriental noodles with peanut sauce" article on the Recipes wiki at Wikia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License