Noodle and Tofu Bowl with Peanut Sauce

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Noodle and Tofu Bowl with Peanut Sauce
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Difficulty:
easy
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Preparation:
20 min.
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ready in 40 min.
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Ingredients

for
4
For the Peanut Sauce
1 cup unsalted Peanuts (toasted without fat and finely chopped)
2 shallots (peeled and finely chopped)
2 cloves garlic cloves (peeled and finely chopped)
3 Tbsps Sweet soy sauce (Kecap manis)
½ lemon (juice)
1 tsp Sambal oelek
1 Tbsp Palm sugar
2 Tbsps Nut oil
1.333 cups Coconut milk
For the Noodles
14 ozs Spaghetti
2 ¾ cups red Cabbage (chopped into fine strips)
1 red pepper (rinsed, halved, deseeded, cleaned and chopped into strips.)
4 scallions (rinsed, cleaned and chopped into rings)
4 carrots (peeled and chopped into fine strips)
1 ⅔ cups Tofu (chopped into cubes)
How healthy are the main ingredients?
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Preparation steps

1.
To make the sauce, place the peanuts, shallots, garlic, kecap manis, lemon juice, sambal oelek and palm sugar in a tall mixing beaker and puree to a creamy paste using a hand-held mixer.
2.
Heat the groundnut oil in a pan and briefly fry the peanut paste, pour in the coconut milk, stir until smooth, simmer for around 3 minutes until slightly thickened and season with salt.
3.
Cook the noodles according to package instructions, drain and divide between four plates.
4.
Scatter the red cabbage and pepper strips over the noodles, ladle over the sauce, top with the spring onions, carrot strips and tofu and serve.

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