More often than not Trey and I come home from work and are super hungry. I'm sometimes on the verge of "hangry". It's that feeling when you start to get grumpy/angry, because you're so hungry. So we need to make dinner, and fast!
This dinnertime crunch usually results in us making something in the pasta/stir fry department. Trey could eat the same dinner for weeks in a row. I am a little more picky. I am always tweaking or adjusting past dishes we've made. I just like variety, what can I say? 
This will for sure be making it onto our fast dinners rotation. It's super quick to make, pretty healthy and involves ingredients that we usually have on hand anyway. Except for soba noodles. I will just have to remember to buy those more often. Turns out they are awesome! Since the weather is starting to cool down, I served this dish hot. But this could easily be adapted into a cold pasta dish too, as soba noodles are awesome cold. 
Sweet and Spicy Soba Noodles, serves 2-3
6 oz soba noodles
6 oz cooked shrimp (or shredded chicken)
1 red bell pepper
3 cloves garlic
1/4 cup chopped green onion
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes (add a little more if you really like it spicy!)
2-3 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
First cook the soba noodles in boiling water for 5-6 minutes. Drain and set aside.
Remove the tails from the shrimp (optional, but I hate doing this afterwards while eating). Slice up the red pepper. Cook these together in a hot skillet with a tablespoon or so of olive oil just until the peppers start to soften. Then, add the cooked noodles to the pan and turn the heat down to low/medium.
In a small bowl combine the honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, ginger, red pepper flakes and minced garlic. Stir to combine. Pour over the noddles, shrimp, and peppers. Cook for 6-8 minutes until the liquid has reduced some. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and green onions.
Dinner is served, in around 30 minutes or less. Score! Enjoy. xo. Emma
Credits// Author and Photography: Emma Chapman
41 Comments
I’ve never tried Soba noodles before but by the delicious looks of this quick meal, that has got to change very soon!
yum !! need to cook it 🙂
x
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That looks delicious!
Love and good night from Germany,
Bambi
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This look very very good! I will try! Thank you. XX
I also never has tried Soba noodles! This recipe sounds really interesting, especially because I just returned from a trip to Austria where I had a very traditional Austrian pasta meal: cheese spaetzle (a kind of cheese dumplings) …
xx from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
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Looks delicious! Will definitely have to try this recipe sometime soon. x
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YUM! This looks great! Love the idea to use shrimp instead of chicken. Great way to change up the recipe. I’ve never had soba noodles before…but I’ll have to try them now! Thanks so much!
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mmmh. i make something similar to this, but sans honey and shrimp. i like to add pineapple, zucchini, and tofu (yep, vegan).
yummy! this looks like a cheaper and healthier alternative to ordering chinese!
xxoo,
nikki
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Oooh, yum! I’m gonna try this with baked tofu!
It looks yummy!!! xx Thanks
Love,
Katty
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Oh my. This looks wonderful – and so so easy!
Erin
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This looks delicious!
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looks so yummy!
pinned already!
i’m all about these speedy dinners, i get hangry way too quickly.
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From afar it kind of looked like Korean Japchae. Looks delicious!
xo Trisha
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Looks great – never heard of soba dinners before!
Love quick meals like this on week nights 🙂
Carina
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We have this new rule at home where I have to “learn” how to cook because next year I will move out to go to college. I have been cooking once a week for a while now I enjoy it. I will add this one to my list of new things to try! I also made your bagels, not as part of the rule thing, but just because I wanted to. 😀 I made a blog post about them because I adore your food blog posts so much, figured it would be fun to try for once myself!
Love,
Simone
Being hangry is horrible, but thankfully it can be fixed with quick, simple meals like this one and that fact that it’s healthy makes it so much better! I’ve never tried soba noodles, but they sound like a great noodle for stir fry.
M.
i don’t think i have ever heard of soba noodles, but this dish looks delicious!
xo, cheyenne
Love this yum yum yum
looks fantastic!
– Janine
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really want to try this !
xoxo
mariana
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I was in a hurry for supper tonight and what did I find on your feed but a yummy, quick recipe. Thanks Emma for saving my supper!
Looks like a great — and healthy! — weeknight meal. Yum!
Mmm Soba noodles are so delicious! Looks awesome!
what a fabulously simple and perfect dinner meal idea!
xx
This looks so yummy! Noodles are our quick and easy go to meal – will definitely try this. In uni me and my housemates used to say ‘If in doubt bang on the noods!’
It looks so tasty, great recipe! http://www.lavenue.com/
I make basically the same thing at home but with baby bok choy also. Love it!
i’m a sucker for stir-fries too! this one sounds delicious, simple, and hearty as soba noodles have a deeper, darker flavor than your regular old Italian white pasta. my favorite stir-fry is even SIMPLER, and usually only involves one of us picking up some fresh watercress on the way home (we ALWAYS have flank steak sliced and frozen in 2-person servings in the freezer, frozen flat in plastic bags for very quick thawing):
http://www.beyondthestoop.com/2011/08/watercress-and-beef.html
also, if you go to an Asian grocery store and you find the skinny egg noodles with a picture of a shrimp on it and see that the ingredients include shrimp powder or something like that, GET IT!! shrimp noodles are becoming a favorite in our house 😉
cheers!
This looks delicious! I’m going to try it!
Mmmmm yummy!
Lulu xx
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Thank you for posting this recipe! I made it for dinner this evening for my handsome and me. It was so easy which is much appreciated after our hectic work day. I happened to have firm tofu on hand, so I used it in place of the shrimp. Otherwise, I left the rest of the ingredients per your recipe and we both ended the meal with full, satisfied bellies.
Keep ’em coming!
Kay Kay
Awesome! This is perfect. The past few nights I have been so busy and gotten home so late that it’s been drive through or cheese and crackers. This is WAY better!
Noodles are never refused in my house and can’t wait to try this recipe out 🙂
Yun! This looks delicious.
I do not eat spicy food but I think my friend would love to eat this. He is really into these types of food.
omg that lokks so delicious!
I tried this recipe last night… delish! Thank you for sharing!