Making dinner for myself often goes something like this:
Scout out the produce section of the grocery store, throw at least three impulse buys into my cart, and arrive home with absolutely no clue how to use it all. So I randomly add things together and hope for the best! Even on the rare occasion I actually do have a recipe to follow, I pretty much ignore the recipe anyway. With today’s green noodles, I’d initially planned to follow a recipe from Vegetarian Times. However, by the time I’d finished substituting and adding ingredients, the results were something completely new… and really delicious!
Green Noodles
- 1/4 cup minced garlic
- 1 1/2 tbsp fresh ginger, grated
- 1 cup fresh cilantro, loosely packed
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vegetable or coconut oil
- 15oz canned coconut milk, lite or regular (If allergic, you can use cashew cream)
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tbsp sweetener of choice, or 20 NuNaturals stevia drops
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 5oz raw baby kale or spinach (or 1 box)
- 2 tbsp minced garlic
- 3 tbsp soy sauce (or gluten-free)
- 2 tbsp water
- 6 cups broccoli, cut small (480g)
- 2 servings soba noodles (80g uncooked)
- avocado, optional for garnish
In a blender, puree the first 10 ingredients until completely smooth, then transfer to a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Lower and simmer 15 minutes. In a sauté pan, sauté the kale and 2 tbsp garlic in a little oil or oil spray until kale begins to wilt. Add the soy sauce, 2 tbsp water, and the broccoli. Cover and cook on medium 3 minutes. Meanwhile, put a pot of salted water on to boil for the noodles. When the three minutes are up, turn off the heat on the kale/broccoli but keep covered until the noodles are ready. Cook noodles according to package directions, drain fully, and pat dry. Now combine everything together. Stir well. Serve with sliced avocado if you want even more green! (Technically you can leave the 1 tsp oil out, but it helps to coat the pasta with sauce so I recommend leaving it in.) I cannot vouch for the recipe with carton coconut milk or any other type of milk, so try that substitution at your own risk. Makes 3 large servings, each the size of the servings in the photos.
Question of the Day:
When making dinner for yourself, do you more often follow a recipe or just make something up?
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I love your savory recipes, Katie!! Excited to try this 🙂
Those noodles actually look delectable. I love tweaking recipes to fit my taste and ingredient availability, so this kind of recipe is perfect.
Katie-Thank you for this fantastic green recipe!! I made it last night, & I actually had the leftovers this morning for breakfast, it was that good. This was my first time using cilantro, & I’m hooked. I hope you will post more green recipes in the future. I love broccoli & spinach, but I normally get bored with them, so this is just what I needed. I’m not super creative with my own cooked veggie recipes. I plan to make this once a week. (I enjoy your dessert recipes too).
I am envious of your obvious ability to enhance a written recipe. Although I often prepare meals without a recipe, I often follow written recipes exactly as written. I am actually a white knuckle recipe follower. But these green noodles look yummy!
Another awesome recipe! I just started following and have tried several of your recipes already!
Do I follow recipes exactly? Not really. Baking it is harder to improvise to a point, since there is more science behind what you make (although I would love to experiment and try a carrot cake boatmeal…i’m a little nervous to try it! ) but cooking is a whole different story. I love to tweak and experiment – sometimes a small change can make things very different and very good!
Just made this for dinner. MMMM 😀 SOOOO delicious 🙂 Will most def be making again and again. It tastes cheesy, but it’s not! I made it with cashew cream too 🙂 [Well, I had no cashews, so I used peanuts instead]. I used OJ instead of lime juice and a mix of basil, parsley, and cilantro 🙂 Thanks!
serve with crazy good ranch on the side…,mmmm There are quite a few good meal ideas on this site that you have posted over time. You could start a “savorykatie” blog and probably be successful with that too! After the cookbook, of course.
Just made this tonight and loved it! My husband isn’t always too excited about the healthy recipes that I try, but he enjoyed this. My 17-month-old ate some, too, and asked for more broccoli!
Hey Katie, I made this lady night and loved it. Thanks for sharing! I am definitely passing this one on.
This came out crazy good! I used 120 g of buckwheat noodles and it made 3 servings. Other than that, I followed the recipe exactly. Yummy!!