Simple Sesame Noodles

This lovely recipe comes from The Pioneer Woman, and let me tell you it is so simple and delicious!  The beautiful thing about these noodles is that you can fix them as is and eat them alone, pair them with another dish, stir in additional ingredients (shrimp and almonds come to mind), and I'm pretty sure they even taste good cold, straight out of the refrigerator.

A note on a few of the ingredients.  You should be able to find most of these in the Asian food section of your local grocery store.  The hot chili oil was the one for me that was tough to find, and I ended up having to go to a specialty market for it.  Also keep an eye out for the rice vinegar.  It was in both the vinegar section as well as the Asian food section, but the ones that were in the vinegar section cost more.  I also doubled the amount of hot chili oil used in the original recipe.

Simple Sesame Noodles

Ingredients:

• 12 oz of thin noodles (spaghetti, Japanese noodles, etc) -  cooked, drained, and warm
• 1/4 cup of low sodium soy sauce
• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 4 cloves of garlic - minced
• 2 Tbsp rice vinegar
• 3 Tbsp pure sesame oil
• 1 tsp hot chili oil
• 4 Tbsp canola oil
• 4 whole green onions -  sliced thin
• 2 Tbsp hot water

Directions:

1. Whisk all ingredients (except the noodles and green onions) together in a large bowl.
2. Add warm noodles and toss to cover the noodles with the sauce.
3. Add green onion and toss.
4. Serve as a side or main dish!

Servings: 4 to 8 depending on serving size