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Satay Vegan Chick'n with Noodles
Dinner ready in a flash with this vegan stir-fry! You'll pan fry plant-based chick'n until golden, then coat in a sticky and more-ish peanut sauce. Brown rice noodles soak up all the flavour. Fresh tomatoes and leafy pak choi for your veg. To finish? Lashings of lime and a sprinkle of leafy coriander.
Ready in 20
High protein
1/3 daily fibre
Low sat fat
Family classics
Serving size
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp maple syrup (maple syrup(100%))
- 2 tbsp tamari (Soya) (water, soybeans, salt, spirit vinegar)
- 60g smooth peanut butter (Peanuts, Nuts) (Roasted Hi-Oleic PEANUTS (99.7%), Sea Salt)
- 2 pak choi
- 200g brown rice noodles (Brown Rice Flour, Water)
- 1 onion
- 320g plant-based chick'n pieces (Soya) (water, soy protein concentrate, extra virgin olive oil, salt, natural flavouring, spices, vitamin B12)
- 6 tbsp thai red curry paste (Lemongrass, Garlic, Red Chillies, Water, Galangal, Lime Leaves, Coconut Palm Sugar, Paprika, Diced Shallots, Salt, Rapeseed Oil, Lime Juice, Cornstarch, Basil, Coriander, Black Pepper, Paprika Oleoresin.)
- 1 unwaxed lime
- 110g baby tomatoes
- 1 handful of fresh coriander
Nutritional Information
Calories: 465
Protein: 26g
Carbs: 51g
Fat: 16g
Satay Vegan Chick'n with Noodles
Dinner ready in a flash with this vegan stir-fry! You'll pan fry plant-based chick'n until golden, then coat in a sticky and more-ish peanut sauce. Brown rice noodles soak up all the flavour. Fresh tomatoes and leafy pak choi for your veg. To finish? Lashings of lime and a sprinkle of leafy coriander.
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Pull out a measuring jug, a large frying pan, a large saucepan & a sieve
Make the sauce & prep
- Mix the peanut butter in the jug with 200ml hot water, then stir to dissolve. Add the tamari, maple and curry paste and mix well
- Peel and cut the onion into 8 wedges. Chop the pak choi into bite-sized pieces
- Halve the tomatoes. Roughly chop the coriander. Halve the lime
Get cookin'
- Heat the large frying pan with 1 tbsp oil on a medium-high heat. Once hot, add the onion and cook for 4-5 mins until golden brown
- Add the chick'n to the pan and cook for 2-3 mins. Add the tomatoes and sauce and simmer for 3-4 mins until thickened
Time to noodle
- Meanwhile, bring the large saucepan filled with salted hot water to a boil. Once boiling, add the noodles and gently separate with a fork
- Add the pak choi, then boil together for 3-4 mins, until cooked. Drain together, then rinse under cold water
Last bits & plate up
- Add the noodles, pak choi and the juice of half the lime and toss to coat
- Serve the satay noodles into bowls. Sprinkle over the coriander and serve the remaining lime, cut into in wedges
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