By Rachel Rappaport of Coconut & Lime
Photo by Saffron Trail
According to the National Pasta Association, March is National Noodle Month. Now, I haven’t heard of any parades or federal holidays planned so I think it is up to us to create our own celebrations. What better way than to make lots and lots of delicious noodles? Oodles of noodles if you will. To get you started here are few of the best looking and sounding noodle recipes from food blogs around the world.
Over at Rasa Malaysia we have a personal favorite of mine, Singapore Fried Rice Noodles. They are fairly easy to make but quite flavorful.
Pho beef noodle soup is a Vietnamese classic. It has a lot of steps but the final dish is comfort food at its best.
Photo by Anne’s Food
Elana’s Pantry offers up this gluten-free non-traditional take on the take-out staple sesame noodles that uses carrots and agave nectar to add a touch of sweetness.
For another twist on sauce-laden noodles these spicy coconut noodles are sure to cure any Thai-related craving.
The cleverly named Crapes of Wrath has a great recipe for garlic noodles that looks as simple as it does tasty! Perfect for a 15 minute meal.
Photo by Cook and Eat
Soba noodles are made with buckwheat and are a hearty change form regular wheat noodles. Saffron Trail puts them to good use in her recipe for Orange-Sesame Soba noodles. Another great soba noodle recipe is Otsu. The dressing looks so good, I’ve be tempted to drink it!
Anne’s Food offers up a recipe for salmon and noodles that was inspired (but much altered) from a Nigella Lawson recipe. It calls for leeks, which is unfortunately an underutilized vegetable.
If you are feeling ambitious, Cook & Eat has a great post about making homemade udon noodles that look simply amazing! Imagine how impressed everyone would be if you served them homemade noodles floating in a homemade soup!
Photo by Eat Like a Girl
I love the street food Dan-Dan Noodles so much; they are spicy, sauce and make great use of Sichuan peppercorns which leave a citrus-y cooling/numbing feeling in your mouth.
Along the same lines are the market-inspired Malaysian Market Noodles. The recipe, based on one found in The Spice Merchant’s Daughter, makes some substitutions for harder to find ingredients.
One thing that I haven’t cooked–yet–is pork belly. Recipes like this one for a pork belly-savoy cabbage noodle soup are inspiring! Here she roasts the pork belly before slicing it into bits for soup.
So, go ahead! Make some noodle-y dishes. If anyone asks, just blame it on National Noodle Month.
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Rachel Rappaport is a food writer and recipe creator who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. You can check out over 600 of her original recipes at her award winning food blog, Coconut & Lime.
