These vegan saucy Thai noodles will feel like you just stepped out of your favorite Thai restaurant and for a good reason – it’s based off a favorite Thai noodle dish that we would order at a restaurant.
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Since we have been creating recipes for over a decade, we love picking up on little flavors that are in dishes when eating out and then recreating them at home. We continue to add and swap until we feel like it’s perfection and this one truly is just that!
While this is Thai inspired, we do not considering this an official recipe, but we know the flavors are built upon the same concepts and what is create is this high protein, saucy, super flavorful dish with some of the notes of our favorite Thai dishes.
Ultimately, we know you’re going to love this one!
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Why You’ll Love These Thai Noodles
- Flavorful – By using the ingredients in their natural form, we’re able to give a huge boost of flavorful to start your day
- Easy– This is a pretty low effort meal!
- Versatile – You can easily switch up the sauces or the vegetables that are being used to create versatility in one recipe
Thai Noodle Ingredients
Gather your ingredients!
- Tofu- you’ll want to use a super firm tofu or an extra firm tofu that has been pressed out
- Noodles – we are using a wide egg-free noodle
- Vegetables – we added yellow squash and red pepper slices
- Sauce – the sauce includes maple syrup, vegan fish sauce, soy sauce, and Thai red curry paste
See my recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
How to make Thai Noodles (Vegan)
Step 1: Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Once boiling, add noodles and cook according to package directions. Drain when finished.
Step 2: For the peanuts: In a large skillet over medium heat, add sesame oil and maple syrup, stir together. Add the peanuts and stir. Cook for 2 minutes. Add the sesame seeds and red pepper flakes. Cook another 1-2, stirring often. Careful not to burn.
Remove from heat and place just the peanuts (reserve excess liquid in the skillet) on a parchment lined baking sheet in an even layer and set aside.
Step 3: For the tofu and vegetables: In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, maple syrup, Thai red curry paste, ketchup and vegan fish sauce. Set aside.
In the same skillet from the peanuts- add the tofu cubes. Stir together and let cook for 3-4 minutes flipping to get each side golden brown. Add in ginger and garlic and stir together. Cook 1 more minute.
Step 4: Add in half the sauce. Stir together well. Let cook for 2-3 minutes.
Step 5: Add in peppers and squash and stir. Cook for 3-4 minutes.
Step 6: Add in cooked noodles, remaining sauce, basil, lime juice and zest. Serve with the toasted peanuts, additional basil, and lime juice if needed.
Substitutions and Variations:
- Tofu- you can use more vegetables or something like seitan, mushrooms, chickpeas, or even frozen vegan meat substitutues
- Noodles – you can use other noodles that you prefer as well
- Vegetables – feel free to swap or add to the vegetables listed. Just be mindful of cooking times. Ideas include broccoli, cauliflower, sugar snap peas, carrots, and edamame
- Sauce – you can use a store bought sauce if that’s easier for you
Vegan Thai Noodle Recipe FAQs
The soy in this dish is the top allergen. Swap the tofu for something like mushrooms or just all vegetables. The soy sauce can be subbed with a no soy soy sauce. Peanuts and sesame seeds can be swapped something like sunflower seeds. Use a gluten free pasta
Yes, this recipe is made as a meal prep recipe. Once everything has cooled, you can store it in air tighter containers in the fridge for up to 3-5 days.
Yes. You will want to ensure that you have enough space in your pot or cook in separate batches.
We do not recommend freezing this recipe.
Other Vegan Asian-Inspired Recipes to Consider:
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Vegan Thai Noodles
Ingredients
- ½ lb wide noodles (rice or wheat)
Maple Toasted Peanuts
- 2 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- 1-2 tablespoon maple syrup
- ½ cup roasted unsalted peanuts
- 2 tablespoon sesame seeds
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes more or less to taste
For the tofu and vegetables
- ¾ cup low sodium soy sauce
- ⅓ cup maple syrup
- 2 tablespoon ketchup (sub with 2 tablespoon tomato paste)
- 2 tablespoon vegan fish sauce
- 3-4 tablespoon Thai red curry paste
- 1 block super firm tofu cubed
- 6-8 cloves garlic minced
- 1 inch fresh ginger grated
- 1 yellow squash sliced
- 1 red bell pepper sliced
- 1 cup fresh basil
- 1 lime zested and juiced
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add noodles and cook according to package directions. Drain.
- For the peanuts: In a large skillet over medium heat, add sesame oil and maple syrup, stir together. Add the peanuts and stir. Cooked for 2 minutes. Add the sesame seeds and red pepper flakes. Cook another 1-2, stirring often. Careful not to burn. Put just the peanuts on a parchment lined baking pan and set aside.
- For the tofu and vegetables: In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, maple syrup, Thai red curry paste, ketchup and vegan fish sauce.
- In the same skillet from the peanuts- add the tofu cubes. Stir together and let cook for 3-4 minutes flipping to get each side golden brown. Add in ginger and garlic and stir together. Cook 1 more minutes.
- Add in half the sauce. Stir together well. Let cook for 2-3 minutes. Add in peppers and squash and stir. Cook for 3-4 minutes.
- Add in cooked noodles, remaining sauce, basil, lime juice and zest. Serve with the toasted peanuts, additional basil, and lime juice if needed.
Excited to make this! What brand of wide noodles do you use?
Taste of thai has wide rice noodles we like. The ones in the picture are wheat and from the brand Cento (Anna noodles)
Crunchy, chewy, crisp, salty, sweet, spicy, slightly tangy- the flavors and textures are addicting. So good!
Totally agree!
Delicious! i used what veggies i had on hand, didn’t have fish sauce so i used vegan Worcestershire. the nuts were so good on top. quick and easy. Love it.
yay!
Good to know about the Worcestershire sauce! Drooling to make this but don’t have the fish sauce! Also, going to use the veggies I have on hand.
Enjoy
Always takes me longer to prep than the published time, but the cooking does go quick. Wonderful flavors and a great use of basil from my garden. Very hard to stop eating the peanuts.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So delicious. This one is a keeper!
Awesome!
Excited to make this!
What sort of yellow squash do you recommend? I got a Butternut and realized that’s likely not the right kind for this recipe. Should I find yellow zucchini and if I can’t find just substitute green zucchini?
Thanks for your insight!
Yes we’d recommend using that.
I made this for dinner last night and it was really good, I added extra veggies, but otherwise followed the recipe. Thanks for sharing. 😋
So happy you enjoyed it!
This was delicious! My meat eating husband really enjoyed. it. Thank you for this wonderful recipe.
So glad that it was a win for everyone!
OMG, this was amazing! We had it at a friend’s house last night and I came right home and looked up the recipe. So fresh and tasty
Love that! Great friends share great meals!