[Hollylane]

Originally Posted by Hollylane

Easy (unless you make your own sauce ) Beefless Tips With Fettuccine and Thai Peanut Sauce

Guess what I did? I took the "Easy" out of this recipe and made my own vegetarian Thai Peanut Sauce! Actually, it was easy too, but it did add some more steps to the recipe.

Vegetarian Thai Peanut Sauce
Inspired by the recipe at vegetarian.about.com

1/2 cup (apprx) Adams Crunchy Peanut Butter
1 tbs (apprx)Ginger People, Organic Grated Ginger, minced
3 tbs (apprx) Cilantro, minced
1/4 cup (apprx) Water
2 Cloves Garlic, crushed & minced
2 tbs Rice Wine Vinegar
2 tbs Soy Sauce
2 tbs fresh Lime Juice


Combine peanut butter, ginger, garlic, lime juice, water, vinegar, and soy sauce in a medium sauce pan, over low heat. Stir constantly, until creamy. Depending on the peanut butter you use, you may need to add a little more water, if mixture is thicker than you would like. If you want to use this as a salad dressing, you will need to thin it with more water. ONce mixture is creamy, add cilantro, and continue to stir for about 5 more minutes.

The rest of the recipe was the same, other than I replaced the beefless tips with 14 Morningstar Meatballs (cut in 1/2), the portobellos with an eight-ounce package of Myocopia Specialty mushrooms (Forest Nameko, Velvet Pioppini and Nebrodini Bianco varieties), and the oil with sesame.

I cooked the mushrooms first with garlic, ginger, sesame oil, salt, soy sauce, and red pepper flakes. I set those aside, and then after cooking the meatballs in the microwave (package instructions), I sauteed them with more sesame oil and soy sauce. Then I added in the noodles and mushrooms and stir fried them before pouring the sauce over. I garnished with green onion and cilantro, and enjoyed a side sauce of Sriracha Sauce.

It looks almost the same as the store bought stuff, see: