Recipe: Noodle Bowl with Beer Peanut Sauce

I put this Betty Crocker recipe on my menu plan last week - and it was delicious. The beer-peanut sauce is what caught my attention and we added chicken to make it a more filling meal - which was perfect.

If you're a fan of Pad Thai - give this recipe a try. It really ended up being a perfect amount of peanut taste and was a hit among the family. I'm thinking this will become one of those meals that end up on rotation a fair amount because they are so easy.

Here is my modified version of the recipe.

Sauce

1/3

cup beer (we just used Bud Light)

1/3

cup peanut butter

2

tablespoons soy sauce

1/2

teaspoon ground ginger

1/4

teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

Noodles

8

oz uncooked linguine

2

cups frozen broccoli florets (chopped up into smaller pieces)

1

cup shredded carrots

1

medium red bell pepper, cut into bite-size strips

1 1/2  cup rotisserie chicken shredded

DIRECTIONS:

- In small bowl, gradually beat beer into peanut butter with whisk until smooth. Beat in remaining sauce ingredients. Set aside.
- Cook linguine as directed on package, adding broccoli, carrots and bell pepper during last 2 minutes of cooking. Drain; return to saucepan.
- Add chicken and pour sauce over mixture, gently stirring till coated. Serve immediately.

This made a huge helping - although the four of us seemed to eat it all. I really recommend giving this recipe a try. Of course, it fits in well with my rotisserie chicken obsession.