Rice Noodles with Creamy Miso Peanut Sauce and Mushrooms
This perfect comfort food is ready in 15 minutes and is simply wonderfully creamy.
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If you’re looking for a quick feel-good meal, look no further: rice noodles with miso peanut sauce and mushrooms are hearty, deliciously creamy - and ready in a blink.
The preparation time depends mainly on how quickly you can chop the mushrooms and how long the noodles need to cook - if you don’t dawdle, you’ll be done in 15 minutes!
Very generous spoonfuls of peanut butter are essential for success, as they give the sauce its creaminess, as does half a lime, which gives a great freshness. It is even better if you add lime zest to the sauce.
If you like it a little saltier, just add a dash of soy sauce. A few roasted nuts also go very well with the sauce.
The recipe is based on one from “Deliciously Ella” that used to be on their website, but has since disappeared and can only be found on YouTube. Such a simple and great dish!
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Recipe
Rice noodles with creamy miso peanut sauce, mushrooms - plus cashews and chili flakes
Ingredients
Preparation Time: 5 min
Total Time: 15 min
Servings: 2
- • 250 g mushrooms
- • 1 large spring onion
- • 200 g rice noodles
- • 2 tablespoon oil + 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- • 200 g coconut milk
- • 2 teaspoon peanut butter or almond butter
- • 1 teaspoon miso paste
- • 1/2 lime
- • 1 pinch of cayenne pepper
- • 1 pinch of salt
- • 1 pinch of pepper
- • 1 teaspoon sesame seeds for serving
Ingredients
Servings: 2
Preparation Time: 5 min
Total Time: 15 min
- • 250 g mushrooms
- • 1 large spring onion
- • 200 g rice noodles
- • 2 tablespoon oil + 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- • 200 g coconut milk
- • 2 teaspoon peanut butter or almond butter
- • 1 teaspoon miso paste
- • 1/2 lime
- • 1 pinch of cayenne pepper
- • 1 pinch of salt
- • 1 pinch of pepper
- • 1 teaspoon sesame seeds for serving
Instructions
- 1 Wash and slice the mushrooms and spring onion.
- 2 Cook the rice noodles according to the packet instructions. When they are ready faster than the mushrooms, drain them and keep them warm.
- 3 Fry the mushrooms in a frying pan. When they are brown, add the sesame oil - it makes the mushrooms even more aromatic. Add the coconut milk and two (large!) teaspoons of peanut butter or almond butter to the pan. Stir briefly to see how creamy the sauce is. Squeeze half the lime and stir into the sauce with a little cayenne pepper and the miso paste. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- 4 When the noodles are cooked, you can add them to the sauce together with the spring onion and mix briefly. Sprinkle each plate with sesame seeds when serving.
Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint: 1588 g CO₂e
This ranks it number 27 out of 57 recipes published on the blog so far in terms of estimated carbon footprint.
The estimated emissions are therefore slightly better than the average of the recipes.
Looking at the individual ingredients, the rice noodles stand out, accounting for just under a quarter of the weight of the ingredients, but about half of the carbon footprint of the dish. This is largely due to the rice itself: Traditional cultivation in rice terraces releases a relatively large amount of methane from the soil (source). The climate impact of methane is much greater than that of CO2, especially in the short term. Also, because rice is a staple food for many people around the world, it is important to find other ways of growing rice that are less damaging to the planet.
Comparison of Ingredients
| Ingredients | Carbon footprint per kg | Carbon footprint for recipe | % of ingredients | % of CO₂ emissions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Button mushrooms | 1.3 | 325 | 30% | 20% |
| Spring onion | 0.7 | 70 | 12% | 4% |
| Rice noodles | 3.7 | 744 | 24% | 47% |
| Oil | 3.3 | 66 | 2% | 4% |
| Sesame oil | 2.0 | 20 | 1% | 1% |
| Coconut milk | 0.5 | 104 | 24% | 7% |
| Peanut butter | 2.0 | 40 | 2% | 3% |
| Miso paste | 1.0 | 8 | 1% | 0% |
| Lime | 1.9 | 57 | 4% | 4% |
| Cayenne pepper | 1.1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Salt | 0.7 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Pepper | 1.2 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Sesame seeds | 6.1 | 18 | 0% | 1% |
| Cook sauce | 91 | 6% | ||
| Cook noodles | 41 | 3% |
Instructions
- 1 Wash and slice the mushrooms and spring onion.
- 2 Cook the rice noodles according to the packet instructions. When they are ready faster than the mushrooms, drain them and keep them warm.
- 3 Fry the mushrooms in a frying pan. When they are brown, add the sesame oil - it makes the mushrooms even more aromatic. Add the coconut milk and two (large!) teaspoons of peanut butter or almond butter to the pan. Stir briefly to see how creamy the sauce is. Squeeze half the lime and stir into the sauce with a little cayenne pepper and the miso paste. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- 4 When the noodles are cooked, you can add them to the sauce together with the spring onion and mix briefly. Sprinkle each plate with sesame seeds when serving.
Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint (2 portions): 1588 g CO₂e
This ranks it number 27 out of 57 recipes published on the blog so far in terms of estimated carbon footprint.
The estimated emissions are therefore slightly better than the average of the recipes.
Looking at the individual ingredients, the rice noodles stand out, accounting for just under a quarter of the weight of the ingredients, but about half of the carbon footprint of the dish. This is largely due to the rice itself: Traditional cultivation in rice terraces releases a relatively large amount of methane from the soil (source). The climate impact of methane is much greater than that of CO2, especially in the short term. Also, because rice is a staple food for many people around the world, it is important to find other ways of growing rice that are less damaging to the planet.
Comparison of Ingredients
| Ingredients | Carbon footprint per kg | Carbon footprint for recipe | % of ingredients | % of CO₂ emissions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Button mushrooms | 1.3 | 325 | 30% | 20% |
| Spring onion | 0.7 | 70 | 12% | 4% |
| Rice noodles | 3.7 | 744 | 24% | 47% |
| Oil | 3.3 | 66 | 2% | 4% |
| Sesame oil | 2.0 | 20 | 1% | 1% |
| Coconut milk | 0.5 | 104 | 24% | 7% |
| Peanut butter | 2.0 | 40 | 2% | 3% |
| Miso paste | 1.0 | 8 | 1% | 0% |
| Lime | 1.9 | 57 | 4% | 4% |
| Cayenne pepper | 1.1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Salt | 0.7 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Pepper | 1.2 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Sesame seeds | 6.1 | 18 | 0% | 1% |
| Cook sauce | 91 | 6% | ||
| Cook noodles | 41 | 3% |