The weather is so hot, and you want cold noodles but worry about the calories? Try this super simple and delicious Taiwanese Sesame Sauce Cold Noodles. Make it yourself for a healthy, light, and refreshing dish that you can enjoy at home, just like at a famous noodle shop. Customize it with your favorite ingredients to satisfy your craving for cold noodles on a hot day.

I was bored with regular somen noodles, but store-bought mentsuyu is expensive and I only had a little of it, so I tried making this dipping sauce.The mentsuyu, ra-yu, sesame seed, ginger and green onion amounts are an approximate. Adjust the amount to your liking. Try with salted sliced cucumber, tomatoes, myoga ginger, shiso leaves, etc. to make a hearty noodles dish! This dipping sauce can be used with rice or udon noodles too. Recipe by Nekoyanagi shouten

I came up with this original sesame sauce with my husband. We add miso to the sauce.Miso is the key ingredient, but you should only add a very small amount. It's just about enough if you don't really notice the flavor of the miso right away.Once I created this recipe, this sauce has become a regular feature in our household. You can make a really nice meal out of somen noodles thanks to this sauce.This is great for udon noodles too. Recipe by wakwaksan

This dry garlic sesame oil noodle dish is something my mom used to make for us all the time—perfect for a quick breakfast or late-night snack. 😊 When you're really hungry and want something tasty but don't feel like making instant noodles, this is the best quick meal. It takes less than 5 minutes from start to finish, and you'll have a delicious, fragrant bowl of noodles with a hint of garlic heat and sesame oil aroma. 😋Feel free to visit my Facebook blog when you have time:https://bit.ly/3OyfL0K

We like chilled Chinese-style noodles with lots of vegetables, so the sauce sachets included with the shop-bought noodle packets are too small. We want to use plenty of sauce, so I always make homemade sauce and keep in the fridge. If zhi ma jiang or sesame paste are not available, you don't have to use them! Add more ground sesame seeds instead.You can use the soup from poaching the chicken (150 ml) to make the sauce instead of the boiling water, water and Chinese chicken stock granules. Add some salt if necessary. If you add the sauce sachets attached to the noodle packets, make just half of the homemade sauce. Add more doubanjiang or ra-yu to taste. Recipe by Heartful Kitchen Rei

Looking for something to use some pork in. Ran into a couple recipes, sort of combined and used ingredients I had. Turned out real nice. Could have been spicier for me, I didn't think as stated here, it was spicy at all. Pretty filling though. Not difficult, not very time consuming. If you don't have the Schezwan pepper corns, just ignore that part.Also, other types of meat or tofu even could be used. Don't limit yourself!

I love cold noodles with sesame sauce, but the dish can be bit heavy when I'm losing my appetite due to the hot weather. I wanted to make a refreshing dish with a sauce on the lighter side that I could enjoy until the last bite.Add ra-yu (chili oil) at the end if you like. Recipe by caramel-cookie

This is one of those recipes that allows a lot of customization if you desire. Want vegetarian, leave the meat out. Or substitute tofu our faux ground meat. It's all good. Don't have the veggies I used, use something else. Want more heat, add some, hot sauce or crushed red pepper, jalapenos, it's all good. Try it, next time have some fun with it after you see how easy it is. Just don't over cook the noodles in the boil stage, it does make a mess when they fall apart (still taste good, just sort of goopy).

Through trial and error, I figured out that heating the ingredients and the gelatin before mixing them together gives the goma dofu a great texture!For the sesame paste, you can use either white or black sesame. Recipe by Yunko

This is another in a series of dinners that are relatively quick and easy to make. Besides being tasty, it’s an all-in-one meal that contains meat, veggies, and carbs. I dialed down the spice when I made it for my family, since my four-year-old can’t really eat spicy food. She was a big fan of this dish because of the peanut flavor and because of all the noodles! 🥜 🍜This recipe was modified from Bon Appetit.

My mother taught me this recipe.It's so easy!If you mix the soy milk and katakuriko before heating it won't clump easily.You can make this in a plastic container or a small bowl and eat it straight out of the bowl.You can eat with mentsuyu, ginger or wasabi according to your preference.If you don't have any sesame paste, you can double the amount of ground sesame seeds. Recipe by Inarei

I got this idea from regular dandan noodle soup.If you want to make it spicier, increase the doubanjiang.Grind the sesame seeds before making the soup. The fragrance will be much more aromatic. You can also use Chinese noodles. Recipe by Yuuyuu0221