Dinner · 15 min · Amounts not specified
Peanut lime rice noodles
Loosen peanut butter with hot water first.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 15 min
easyWhy tonight. Loosen peanut butter with hot water first.
What it needs
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- rice noodles
- peanut butter
- lime
- soy sauce
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chili flakes.
Method
- Let the peanut butter down with hot water first until pourable, then lime and soy. In the other order it seizes into gravel.
- Rice noodles cooked to just done and rinsed cold, so they do not carry on softening in a warm sauce.
- Sauce them just before serving. Peanut sauce sets as it cools and a bowl dressed early is a solid block.
- Lime again at the table and chili flakes. Peanut is heavy and the acid is what keeps it moving.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- rice noodles
- They keep cooking in whatever they sit in, so they come out of the water early and go into the sauce underdone.
- peanut butter
- Fat, salt and body all at once, which is why it thickens a sauce as it flavors it.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
- soy sauce
- Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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Next
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