Cold Soba Noodle Salad with a Spicy Peanut Sauce

This cold soba noodle salad with a spicy peanut sauce is an incredibly flavorful vegan meal with the perfect amount of crunch and freshness.

This recipe is easy and comes together in half an hour! The spicy peanut sauce is addictive.

I’m pretty sure this recipe was inspired by the recent feature that Bon Appetit magazine did on cold noodle salads. The photos were so beautiful and vibrant, and who doesn’t love noodles?! Is it weird that I get super excited when I receive the magazine in my mailbox each month? Simple pleasures.

Aside from that magazine feature, I keep hearing about soba noodles in general, but I had never made them myself before. It took me a couple trips to different grocery stories to find soba noodles (check the Asian aisle), and I am so glad I found them. It was time.

In case you were wondering, soba noodles are simply Japanese buckwheat noodles. They’re good warm or cold. They’re easy to work with and only take a few minutes to cook. They also happen to be vegan, which is a handy little fact to file away. These will now be in my Asian-inspired recipe arsenal forever.

So what’s in here?

• Soba noodles
• Grated carrot
• Cilantro
• Red peppers
• Chopped peanuts
• Chives
• Sesame seeds
• A spicy peanut sauce (make it as spicy or mild as you want!)

I ate this spicy peanut soba noodle salad a couple of days after I made it, and it still tasted good. This would actually be a good meal prep option for something a little bit different. You could also easily add some extra protein to it, like some of my favorite grilled shrimp.

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time (it’s ok to just look at the pretty pictures tho), you will have read this next line like a thousand times and roll your eyes… so here we go. I do not handle spice well. I, for real, enjoyed this recipe as written with the 2 teaspoons of sriracha sauce. You go girl! I’d suggest including at least 1 teaspoon of it for flavor purposes, but you can also add more if you’re not like me. Play with it ’til it makes your taste buds sing.

Hope you love this easy soba noodle recipe as much as I did!

If you like this recipe, I think that you may also like my veggie lettuce wraps with a peanut sauce or my garlic lime cashew zoodles.