These Sweet and Spicy Noodles are a Thai inspired fast, easy weeknight dinner that can be ready and on the table in just 20 minutes!
I don’t know what it is but I am all about sweet and spicy, lately! These 20 Minute Sweet and Spicy Peanut Noodles are so easy and so spicy with a lovely hint of sweet. As my husband described it, they’re damn delicious. After the success of our Sweet and Spicy Sriracha Chicken Thighs, I knew I wanted to use a similar sauce in a Thai noodle. And the hubby was right, damn did it turn out delicious!
I’m coming at ya from Denver International Airport as I’m waiting for a flight home after an incredible weekend with my bestie MOH (matron on honor). It was my first time away from my new babe and my husband’s first time alone with both girls. And we both killed it. While I was fueled by delicious wine and girl talk, he took both girls out to an event at M’s school, to the grocery store, and they made homemade pizza with our homemade pizza sauce! Super dad… swoon.
Anyway, I made these noodles before I left and they were a perfect fast and easy dinner to make before I headed to the airport. Even though I made these with rice noodles, this could totally be made with regular ol’ linguine noodles, too! And again, I used bottle hoisin (since we had it already), but like I said with the Sweet and Spicy Sriracha Chicken Thighs, keep an eye out for a homemade hoisin, soon! 
The sauce as I made it is definitely spicy. But you can tamper it down with less red pepper if you’re more of a hint of spice vs. my husband and I who prefer a face punch of spice. M is definitely her father’s daughter and she too loved how spicy these were. She even asked for more Sriracha on her plate! Talk about proud mama moment 😛 
The longest part of this recipe is waiting for the water to boil to cook the noodles. Then it’s just heating some oil in a pan, tossing in your sauce to give the garlic a quick cook, and then adding your cooked noodles and then the cilantro, peanuts, green onions, and carrots. You could also add a protein like chicken or shrimp!
Give it all a good mix and boom. 
Winner winner 20 Minute Sweet and Spicy Noodles dinner!
I usually gauge how good a meal is by how long the leftovers last. When my husband said they don’t last past breakfast the next day, I knew they were really freakin’ good. These are right up there with our 15 minute Garlic Fried Noodles and now that I know M has a deep love for Sriracha like her parents, we’ll definitely be making these noodles on the regular. I’m sure it’ll be on my list this week as I get back home and back into the regular routine!
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Happy Noodling, friends!
20 Minute Sweet and Spicy Noodles
Ingredients
- 16 oz linguine rice noodles or regular pasta
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons hoisin
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 2 teaspoons chili garlic sauce
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/8 - 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes to taste
- 1/4 cup sesame oil
- 2 cups shredded carrots approximately 2 large
- 1 cup roasted, salted peanuts
- 1/2 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 2 tablespoons green onion, chopped
- Sriracha to taste
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil and cook noodles until al dente, approximately 6 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prep your veggies / garnishes. In a small bowl mix soy sauce, hoisin, honey, chili garlic paste, garlic, and red pepper flakes.
- A couple of minutes before the noodles are done, in a large saute pan, heat sesame oil over medium heat and add sauce and stir, cooking garlic.
- When noodles are done, drain and add immediately to pan with sauce and stir until the noodles are well coated.
- Top with carrots, peanuts, cilantro, green onion, and Sriracha. Mix and serve!
You can never go wrong with a noodle recipe. Perfect for any night of the week. Easy to whip up on a weekend. Leftovers would be great for another meal, or to take to lunch too. Love the flavour combination…..and noodles are always fun to eat.
Yes! They make GREAT leftovers – delicious cold, too!
I hope you had a nice vacation! And these noodles look DELICIOUS!!! I love how fast they are, and I’ll take them extra spicy!
Extra spicy – a girl after my own heart!
Love this sweet and spicy noodle recipe. Since you mentioned adding a protein I went with the shrimp, delish!
Great choice!!
This dish looks amazing! Can’t wait to try!
Thanks Karly! I hope you do and enjoy them as much as we do!
The estimate of writing your site post is very good.Perfect for any night of the week. Easy to whip up on a weekend.Leftovers would be great for another meal, or to take to lunch too. Love the flavour combination, and noodles are always fun to eat.
Thanks for sharing and have a good day!
I love the sweet spicy flavor profile and these noodles look amazing!
Thanks Julie! Sweet and spicy is all I seem to want these days and these noodles definitely fulfill the craving!
Omggggg Tracy, you’re killing me here! These look and sound amazing! I freakin’ love noodle-y dishes and there’s never such thing as too many. Add to it this flavor profile and I’m in heaven. We eat noodles 1-2 times a week in this house, so when we get settled in after our move, this is happening. And it’ll taste soooo good after all the crap we still have to do, lol.
You and I have the same pantry, I swear! I’ve thrown together a similar dish while in a pickle once for dinner and was pretty much just tossing sauces in the cupboard together lol! I love that you used rice noodles – those are my favourite because they’re so easy and quick to cook. They’re such an underrated noodle.
This looks amazing! Pad Thai is a favorite,” and this recipe looks so fast and easy! I’m putting this on the meal plan for next week.and my husband will be so excited.
Sweet and spicy is my jam and these are so up my alley! I just told my husband tonight, “I could eat Thai food every night,” so clearly I need to add these to my list!
I just called out to Hubby and told him what we were having with our fish tonight — these noodles. WOW!! They look so good and we always like the Asian flavor especially if it’s spicy. We have most of the ingredients. This looks so good.
I have had SUCH a craving for rice noodles this week. I think this recipe is going to have to be dinner tonight! It looks so simple to prepare at the end of a busy day (and today’s going to be a crazy one). Love the sweet and spicy combo of flavors. This will absolutely hit the spot!
I’m so happy to have stumbled upon this recipe. We are always in need of more quick and simple recipes for dinner during the busy weeks. I also think this would make an awesome lunch to take to work. Can’t wait to try this.
I love how quick and easy this is. The chili and peanuts together are so good!
They are! I hope you try it!
Gosh that sounds good! I’ve got all these ingredients in my cupboard too, so I could whip this up for the family tonight! Thanks for the inspiration!
LOVE those meals that you don’t have to do extra shopping for! Enjoy!
You had me at ‘noodles!!’ I love Asian food and this has made me drool a little, yummo great photos too!!
Thanks so much, Adrianne!
Just goes to show what kind of delicious meals you can make in under 20 minutes. YUM!
Delicious doesn’t have to take forever! 😀
TRACY, this looks so good! I love noodles. I’ll have to try this out sometime soon. Thanks for sharing!
These noodles look delicious. I love sweet and spicy flavors combined!
These sweet and spicy noodles are making me hungry! Love how easy this recipe is too! Def great for weeknights!
I absolutely love the flavors in this. Sounds really delicious. It’s a perfect easy dinner that my family will definitely like. I can’t wait to give this recipe a try.
Such a fun recipe! Love the combination of flavors.
Do you have the nutritional facts for the recipe?
This was delicious. Next time I will do one of the following: increase the sauce and cook all the noodles. Or, keep the sauce ingredients as is and make less noodles.
Other than that, We loved this.
Great tips, Nancy! So glad you guys enjoyed it!