This one is super summery, light but satisfying! It features lettuce, crunchy vegetables, and my favorite trick, quick pickled radishes, which become a beautiful shade of Barbie pink. This takes almost no time to make, but the radishes are most beautiful if you let them sit at least an hour after making them. I make too many at once and eat them over a few days.
Read moreUmi Noodle Salad with Kimchi and Sardines
Cooking has been brutal with the temperature inside my home at 95 degrees. One thing that is helping me enormously is the ease of our Noodles with Miso Sesame Sauce, and cold noodle salads generally. I put water on to boil, rinse and prep a few veggies (or in this case, just open a jar of Choi’s kimchi!), walk away, sit in front of our box fan, come back once the water is sputtering, boil the noodles for 2 minutes, toss with sauce, top with toppings, and that’s it! It’s as low maintenance as a sandwich and infinitely more texturally interesting and fun to eat.
Read moreMinty Noodle Salad with Peas, Peanuts and Lime Fish Sauce Dressing
Katherine Deumling of Cook with What You Have shares her recipe for an Umi noodle salad with peas, peanuts, cilantro and mint. It’s really perfect. It takes almost no time to cook (a gift on very hot days) and tastes refreshing and flavorful. This is your new go-to for noodle salad daze and days.
Read moreCrispy Yakisoba Noodle Salad
Kourtney Paranteau never stopped loving the “Asian-inspired” chicken salads that filled chain restaurant menus of her youth, even if she was embarrassed to admit it, but as she got older she realized she could make an even better version. Here is her take in this classic, with preserved kumquats replacing sad tangerine segments, a silken miso dressing rather than sticky and sweet one, and deep fried Umi yakisoba noodles for irresistible crunch.
Read more9 Noodle Salads to Whip Up on Hot Summer Days
We know it’s hard to believe, but ramen noodles are not only for the cold months! In fact, their chewiness shines in salads, where you can tangle them up with crunchy vegetables and have a meal that tastes great even in the heat. Here are 9 noodle salad recipes we turn to regularly in the summer.
Read more3 Easy Sauces
Making Umi noodles for dinner can be as simple as boiling the noodles for 2 to 3 minutes and tossing with one of these easy-to-whip-together, flavorful sauces.
Read moreThrowback Chinese Chicken Salad
Dead simple weeknight fare. You can use your favorite sesame dressing if you don’t feel like whipping up the sauce.
Read moreKatherine's Noodles with Lots of Herbs and Toasted Peanuts
"I was inspired by the herbs in my garden and my love of crunchy things. The earthy noodles play very nicely with the bright herbs and the rich, toasted nuts."
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