Sweet Sesame Noodles with Chicken and Broccoli
You can substitute angel hair pasta or rice noodles for soba.
You can substitute angel hair pasta or rice noodles for soba.
Whole family loved this dish. I Made it
Just as written and it came out great! Enough for seconds too! Adding to my make again list!
And easy. I grilled the whole breasts on our Trager grill then cut up. Will definitely make this again.
Needed a side with salmon with lime hoisin glaze. Used organic soba noodles. Added thin sliced baby carrots and edamame. Swapped chili garlic sauce for the crushed red pepper. This is an easy recipe and I can see it in many variations for sides and entrees.
Made this for dinner last night and we both LOVED it. I cubed boneless, skinless chicken thighs and stiry fried them, boiled the broccoli with angel hair pasta and dumped that into the wok with the chicken and the sauce. GREAT weeknight meal--comes together very quickly without a lot of prep work. Easy and yummy. Will make again!
Outstanding! Easy to prepare and delicious.
I've made this one twice with different noodles and my family just doesn't care for it. It is easy to make and the first time I thought it was because I tried different noodles but not after the second time.
Delicious recipe that I've already made a few times. I loved the sauce. I used Anne Chung's Pad Thai brown rice noodles (cooked as directed), which really absorbed the sauce and let that flavor shine through. I also used tofu instead of chicken which worked really well. Other modifications were increasing the amount of broccoli and steaming it as well as cutting the sesame oil in half.
My family really enjoyed this recipe. I made it with angel hair instead of soba noodles. I also did not take the chicken out of the pan when it was done but instead added the sauce to the chicken and let it cook down a bit. This made for a nice creamy sauce. I then tossed in the noodles and broccoli. I think next time I will double the sauce.
Made this with sugar snap peas instead of broccoli. Delicious but needed more sauce. I would double sauce and add more or less to taste to noodles.
Tip up front: check your soba package for cooking times rather than following recipe. Some soba takes only 4min (as ours), some takes 6 and if you overcook you'll be displeased. Made to recipe, quick & easy. We would have been happier with more veg but as-is this was an easy summer supper. Served pan-steamed dumplings & ponzu as appetizer.
The sauce was great, I cant actually rate the rest of the recipe since I used udon and tofu instead of buckwheat and chicken. http://www.dishoverdinner.com/2014/06/udon-with-broccoli-and-tofu.html
We loved every part of this meal. It is SO easy to put together and tastes fantastic. I threw the pasta in after I flipped the chicken to the second side so everything would finish at the same time and it worked perfectly, giving us a hot, delicious dinner. Definitely a family favorite. You can read my full review at Taking On Magazines: http://www.takingonmagazines.com/sweet-sesame-noodles-with-chicken-broccoli/
made this last night and it was really good. I cut the chicken before I cooked it and added some cut carrots too. Will definitely make this again.
DID NOT LIKE the sauce! Kid hated the sauce, too. Had to whip up different sauce but shouldn't have bothered. Could have eaten without the sauce. No problem with the Soba noodles. That was the only good part. Tossed them with a little sesame oil after cooking to keep them from getting sticky, gluey. Threw in some edamame with the noodles. That was the other good part. Chicken was boring, sauce was too vinegary, won't make this again.
So easy and very tasty, but next time I will make it with rice noodles. This just confirmed that I don't really like soba noodles, but it was a good way to use up what I had on hand.
Easy Peasy and it taste awesome!
Thanks to earlier reviews, I cooked the noodles until just al dente rinsed in cold water, steamed broccoli separately in microwave (2 1/2 min.), pan grilled the chicken, made the sauce and tossed everything together. By the time it was all put together, it was room temperature; I guess that's the way it's to be eaten? In any case it was a pretty quick and tasty weeknight meal.
The key here is check the soba cooking directions. Mine was 4 minutes so I cooked it 2 minutes and then added the broccoli and cooked the additional 3 minutes. I also chose to stir-fry the chicken to make it more oriental in flavor. I mixed the noodle mixture, chicken, and prepared sauce in the wok. The residual heat helped further breakdown the peanut butter. The final result was delicious.
Cooked according to the directions, but the soba was gummy and difficult to toss with chicken and sauce. Sauce didn't really coat noodles and veggies as a result, so it was pretty tasteless. Certainly, an easy recipe. If I try again, I would reduce the cooking time on the soba.
I'm vegetarian so I used stir-fried Seitan instead of the chicken. The recipe was good but needed more spice and veggies - I added more red pepper and broccoli and also added sautéed onions and cut up tomatoes.
I wasn't blown away, but it's a really solid recipe for a quick stirfry! Very customizable.
Delicious. My boyfriend said it's his new favorite. The insanely flavorful sauce really jazzes up the noodles, chicken and broccoli. The next time I make it I'm going to add a little more crushed red pepper to the sauce. The only downside to this recipe was the cost of the ingredients. The sesame oil, sesame seeds, rice vinegar, and chicken really added up. So if you're looking for a cheap meal, I'd skip this unless you already had some of the ingredients on hand. Overall, we loved it and will be making it again.