shirataki noodles

LOVE these noodles! I do a veggie stir fry with them twice a week. I currently use baby Bok Choy, onions, baby mushrooms, sliced carrots and the spaghetti noodles mixed with some teriyaki sauce and a splash of liquid smoke. You can use any sauce you like! I do a herb and garlic sauce with the fettuccini noodles and add grilled chx or shrimp. YUMMO! you cna play around and use any veggies of your choice.

Ingredients:
Olive oil spray or any spray oil of your choice
One whole onion
2 baby bok Choy bundles
container of baby mushrooms or half
two carrots peeled and slithered or sliced
two packs of shirataki noodles
Soy and teriyaki sauce to taste
Garlic powder, white or ground pepper, season of your choice

Rinse noodles in a coriander over hot water the pre boil in a pot for five minutes/ put into coriander to drain until needed
Pre rinse all of your veggies except onion
Peel and chop your onion into dices
Twist off the top leaf part of bok Choy and chop as you would greens and chop stalk into small pieces as well
Peel carrot and slice to your likings (I use my apple peeler and make thin slithers)

Spray a large nonstick Pan with oil and add onions stir for a few minutes then add carrots, stir then add bok Choy
Stir for a few minutes then add noodles and continue to stir for a few more minutes
Add mushrooms and sauces of your choice. One pound of this is less than 200 calories per serving! Yummo!

I love these noodles. I use the tofu kind which have 40 calories for the entire bag!



Noodles, chicken and mushrooms in a chili garlic peanut sauce.

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I have found these noodles in my local asian supermarket- and they are also known as Konnyaku (Keep an eye out for this). They are found in the refrigerated section (as they are packed in water).

They are made from the Konjac yam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konjac

I would only use these in oriental style dishes that would normally use an oriental noodle (Like egg/rice/udon) and not as a substitute for pasta (I know they call pasta 'noodles' in the US). Make sure you rinse them very well prior to cooking.

Try in oriental soups like pho, or chicken noodle soup, or in stir fry's. But my fave:

-1 pack rinsed shiritaki/konnyaku noodles- cooked as per pack instructions and cooled.
- 1 cup cucumber shavings (done with a veg peeler)
- 1/2 carrot, shaved
- 1 cup large cooked, peeled king prawns (or any large prawns, shrimp or squid).
- 1 cup beansprouts
- small handful fresh coriander (cilantro) chopped.
- small handful fresh mint, chopped
- 1/2 red onion, sliced thinly or 3 salad/spring onions chopped

Dressing:
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 tsp sugar/splenda
- 1/2 fresh red chilli pepper, chopped fine
- 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- juice of 1/2 a lime

Mix the ingredients together and toss in dressing.

Whole salad is only 140 calories and its HUGE ) If you need to up the cals add chopped roasted peanuts and mix through.

I know I'm way behind on this ... but I just tried these a few days ago and absolutely love them. I'd read about them on here and decided to try to find them... and lo and behold the health food store not 5 min from my apt had them on sale I think they smell a bit odd, but substitute wonderfully in place of pasta. And I'm definitely a pasta girl. So far I've had them in stir fry and also just with some marinara sauce. And only 20-25 cal per serving! New favorite item.

I cant wait to try the bag I bought this weekend.

They really have no flavor so you can add them to anything. They are a good filler and have no cals. You can buy them online at miraclenoodles.com and I think they even have rice now. I like the angel hair ones.

I guess I made the mistake of trying to substitute them for pasta dishes, thanks to Hungry Girl. She had so many pasta recipes subsituting these noodles for regular pasta, so I tried them and I thought they were disgusting. I didn't like the texture, taste, anything about them and I ended up throwing out the entire meal. I had actually emailed Hungry Girl about it (this was before she got "famous") and she told me that "they weren't for everyone".
But I'd never seen an Asian recipe for them, so maybe these are worth another try?

*Edit* - I just posted another thread about this - but this website sells them as well http://www.lindasdietdelites.com/

Calories are 20 and low carb and fat! Very good sub to the real thing. There is a odor at first but follow the diretions and it goes away and taste and the texture is the same. Try them!

Amazon.com - like some others have posted, but you can get them on subscribe&save which is 15% off and free shipping. You can cancel at any time. I'm going to try them.