Author Notes
My mother's go-to picnic dish is the sesame noodle recipe from Martha Stewart's Entertaining (the original edition, obviously, featuring many 80s hairstyles), and for good reason: it's tasty, simple, cheap, and easily doubled or tripled or quintupled. This version tweaks the original and adds spicy pickled shrimp and vegetables to sharpen the flavor and provide some heft. Bonus: it gets better as it sits. - MeghanVK —MeghanVK
Test Kitchen Notes
MeghanVK’s Sesame Noodles with Spicy Pickled Shrimp is a tasty dish. There’s a lovely combination of spices and the noodles alone are really delicious. I found the onion overpowered the rest of the elements and so another time I’d marinate the yellow onion for 24 hours or use a red or maybe even a sweet onion. And as this recipe is made ahead, it leaves you time to prep other more last-minute dishes just before you set off for the picnic. - thehappycook —Victoria Ross
Ingredients
- For the Noodles
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1 pound
linguine
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1/4 cup
soy sauce
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3 tablespoons
sesame oil
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toasted sesame oil, for drizzling
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1/2 cup
shredded green cabbage
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1
scallion, sliced (white and green parts)
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1 tablespoon
rice wine vinegar
- For the Pickled Shrimp
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1 pound
fresh shrimp, peeled and cleaned
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1/2 pound
sugar snap peas, trimmed and cut in half
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1 teaspoon
each of whole fenugreek, fennel seed, coriander seed, black peppercorns, and cloves
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1/2 cup
neutral oil, such as grapeseed
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1/4 cup
champagne vinegar
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2 teaspoons
salt
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1 teaspoon
sugar
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1/2 teaspoon
ground mustard
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1/2 teaspoon
crushed red pepper flakes
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1
onion, thinly sliced into half moons
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