🍜 Cold sesame noodles

Name: Cold sesame noodles
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: China · Sichuan and beyond
Ingredients: 250 g wheat noodles; 3 tbsp Chinese sesame paste; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tbsp black or rice vinegar, 1 tsp sugar; 1–2 tbsp chili oil; 1 garlic clove, grated; 1 cucumber, cut into matchsticks; 2 scallions, sliced

Origin: China · Sichuan and beyond

495kcal

per serving · 300 g

165kcal

per 100 g

18 gProtein6 g / 100 g

18 gFat6 g / 100 g

69 gCarbs23 g / 100 g

Cold sesame noodles are chilled wheat noodles tossed in a rich sauce of sesame paste, soy sauce, vinegar and chili oil, then topped with crisp cucumber and scallion. They are nutty, savoury, slightly sweet and gently spicy, with a pleasantly slippery, chewy bite. They are eaten as a quick lunch, a summer meal or a cold side dish.

Diets

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Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

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Veganno meat, fish or animal products in a typical recipe

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No pork

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Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

Contains glutenbecause of: wheat noodles, soy sauce

Not keto23 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Soy ⚠ Sesame

What it is made of

wheat noodlessesame pastesoy saucechili oilcucumberscallion

Recipe

2 servings20 min

Ingredients

250 g wheat noodles
3 tbsp Chinese sesame paste
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp black or rice vinegar, 1 tsp sugar
1–2 tbsp chili oil
1 garlic clove, grated
1 cucumber, cut into matchsticks
2 scallions, sliced

Method

Cook the noodles until just tender, rinse under cold water and drain well.
Whisk the sesame paste with the soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, garlic and 2–3 tbsp warm water until smooth and pourable.
Toss the noodles with the sauce.
Top with cucumber, scallion and chili oil to taste and serve cold.

How to make it lighter

The sesame paste and chili oil hold most of the fat: use half the sauce and loosen it with more water and vinegar.
Double the cucumber and add shredded lettuce or bean sprouts for more volume.
Keep the chili oil to 1 tsp — 1 tbsp oil ≈ 120 kcal.

History

Noodles dressed with sesame paste are a common street food in Sichuan and elsewhere in China. A cold version became a fixture of Chinese restaurants in New York in the later 20th century, and it is now popular wherever Chinese food is eaten.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →