How to glow-up peanut butter noodles

When your favourite comfort meal needs a glow up, it’s easy to add some low fodmap not-so garlic prawns and voila! You’ve got a bowl of comfort with high quality protein. Tasty, savoury and satisfying, these peanut butter noodles come together in 10 minutes. Add some skewered prawns on the BBQ and your fav comfort meal gets an instant glow up.

INGREDIENTS

• 250g hokkien noodles (200g is the recommended low fodmap serving size. You could also use soba noodles).

• 2 tbsp garlic-infused olive oil (for noodles)

• 1 x small red chilli

• spring onion, sliced, green tops only, to garnish

• sesame seeds, to garnish

• prawns, deveined and shelled (5 prawns per person is >20g protein)

• 2 tbsp additional garlic-infused olive oil (for prawns). Here’s how to make your own garlic-infused oil.

• sprinkle chilli flakes

• fresh parsley

• skewers

SAUCE

• 3 tbsp peanut butter (50g or 2 tbsp is the recommended low fodmap serving size).

• 2 tbsp soy sauce (42g is the recommended low fodmap serving size. You could also use tamari).

• 2 tsp sesame oil

• 1 tsp rice wine vinegar

• 1 tbsp maple syrup

• 1 tbsp water

METHOD

1. Prepare prawns by de-heading and deveining. I like to keep the tail shell attached, but it’s entirely up to you if you want to remove this. Use a skewer to pierce the prawns, adding 2-3 per skewer.

2. If you’re cooking on a BBQ, pre-heat the hot plate and then add butter, oil and chilli flakes. Once sizzling, add prawns for 1 minute, turning until they change colour. Alternatively, you can do this is a large fry pan.

3. Sprinkle with parsley and let rest while you make the noodles.

4. Cook the noodles according to the directions on the packet. This usually requires soaking in boiling water for 5 mins but check the instructions on the back of the pack.

5. Prepare the sauce by mixing all the sauce ingredients together in a bowl.

6. Heat oil in a wok, adding noodles and peanut sauce. Stir quickly before noodles get gluggy.

7. Top with prawns, green onions, sesame seeds and parsley (and some extra fresh chilli if you’re feeling spicy!)

8. Serve immediately.

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