30-Minute Broccoli Noodle Salad
This recipe for 30-Minute Broccoli Noodle Salad will impress your friends with its bold taste and beautiful presentation. To create this Asian-style dish, pasta and broccoli are tossed in a bright peanut and citrus sauce—so there's a lot to savor in this dish. Anyone looking for an easy-to-make side dish recipe should consider this spectacular pasta salad. It's also very budget-friendly, as it's made with ingredients such as orange juice and soy sauce. This broccoli salad certainly makes a great addition to any summer potluck, picnic, or lunch.
Serves10
Preparation Time20 min
Cooking Time10 min
Ingredients
- 16 ounces linguine or other long pasta, cooked and drained
- 1/2 cup Crisco canola oil
- 1/2 cup Jif creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 each orange juice
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 small red, yellow or green pepper, chopped (about 1/2 cup)
- 1 large onion, chopped (about 1 cup)
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 pound broccoli florets (about 3 cups)
Instructions
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Place the hot linguine into a large bowl. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon oil and toss to coat.
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Beat the peanut butter, orange juice, lemon juice, soy sauce and sugar in a medium bowl with a fork or whisk.
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Heat the remaining oil in a 10-inch skillet over medium heat. Add the pepper, onion, and garlic and cook and stir for 1 minute.
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Stir in the broccoli and the peanut butter mixture. Reduce the heat to low. Cook until the vegetables are tender-crisp, stirring often.
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Add the vegetable mixture to the linguine and toss to coat.
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Rnbowgrl
Jul 23, 2018
Omg yum...the sauce in this recipe sounds like it would be an explosion of flavor and using peanut butter will give it a touch of nuttiness that should complement the vegetables nicely. Ramen noodles are yummy but, I've recently just started getting familiar with my vegetable spiralizer and am now in love with zucchini noodles (or zoodles as they call them, lol)...which would be amazing with this sauce.
Lynn K
Jun 29, 2017
Such an unusual list of ingredients but really delicious nonetheless. I would never have thought peanut butter with orange and lemon juice could taste good but it sure does. It is a lovely way to eat my favorite vegetable, broccoli, and it made a really great light lunch for the family over the weekend. We enjoyed it enough to definitely save the recipe for the future.
Edmund K
May 31, 2017
What an interesting combination of flavors! Until a few years ago I had never really encountered using peanut butter in non-cookie/cake cooking, but now I'm discovering it in quite a variety of dishes. We always have packages of ramen noodles around, so this is an easy recipe to prepare for us. I might add a little bit of chopped tomato as a garnish to the salad, but it's quite tasty as is.
kmcartoonity 62072 74
May 11, 2017
I love all of the fresh and healthy ingredients in this salad! I love the flavors of the soy sauce and peanut butter for the sauce! And it is also very budget friendly with the ramen noodles and basic pantry items. I will definitely be making this recipe again soon. Great crunch to it too, with the broccoli!
SissieSass
Apr 26, 2017
I have never heard of using peanut butter in a pasta recipe. I love the mix of flavors, especially the citrus. I think that my family would love this as a side or a main dish for lunch. We love broccoli, but I can never find enough recipes to use it in. Thanks for posting!
flowergirl
Apr 24, 2017
I love the sauce. Its very flavorful i bet. I always go for simple pasta recipes with tomato sauces but this has been my first no tomato sauce recipe. still waiting on the amount of orange juice .
suefryray 1800930
Jun 12, 2016
The recipe calls for 1/2 "each" orange juice. Is this suppose to be 1/ cup? I rated 3 stars altho I haven't made it yet. Will wait for an answer to my question.
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