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Noodles recipes

Wheat, rice and egg — in soup, in a wok, and cold. 123 recipes on the site call for noodles.

Stir-fried, soup and cold noodle dishes from across Asia. Wheat, rice, glass and buckwheat noodles all cook differently, and the method says how long to soak or boil each, and whether to rinse them.

Noodles is in 123 recipes from 26 cuisines, among them 68 dinners, 25 quick meals, 17 lunches and 6 appetisers and small plates. The cuisines that use it most here are Chinese (25), Japanese (21), American (13) and Malaysian (9). Of these, 48 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Egg Noodles with Butter (10 min), Instant Noodle Upgrade (13 min) and Cucumber Noodle Salad (15 min). For 16, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 75 easy, 40 medium and 8 hard.

As written, 24 are vegetarian, 7 vegan, 3 gluten-free and 94 dairy-free. Another recipe meets a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

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Noodles recipes — all 123 recipes

Pad Thai
ThaiEditor’s Pick
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Pad Thai

The real thing is sour, salty and only lightly sweet — a world away from the ketchup-orange version. Tamarind, palm…

35 min · Medium
Tonkotsu Ramen
JapaneseEditor’s Pick
Prep
45m
Cook
480m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Tonkotsu Ramen

The milky, collagen-heavy pork broth that made Hakata famous, boiled hard for eight hours until the fat and gelatine…

13 hr+ · Hard
Phở Bò (Beef Noodle Soup)
VietnameseEditor’s Pick
Prep
30m
Cook
240m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Phở Bò (Beef Noodle Soup)

A clear, aromatic broth simmered for four hours with charred ginger and onion and a bundle of toasted spices, poured…

4.5 hr · Hard
Chicken Noodle Soup
American
Prep
15m
Cook
95m
Serves
6
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Healthy

Chicken Noodle Soup

Built from a whole chicken so the broth carries real body, with the noodles cooked separately so they never turn to…

110 min · Easy
Miso Ramen
JapaneseEditor’s Pick
Prep
40m
Cook
90m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Miso Ramen

Sapporo-style ramen: a miso tare whisked into rich pork or chicken broth, stir-fried pork and vegetables piled on…

2 hr · Hard
Beef Stroganoff
RussianFeatured
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Beef Stroganoff

Strips of seared beef in a mustard and soured cream sauce with mushrooms, done in twenty-five minutes. It is a fast…

40 min · Easy
Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup
TaiwaneseEditor’s Pick
Prep
30m
Cook
150m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup

Taiwanese braised beef noodle soup: shin and tendon cooked for hours in a broth built on soy, doubanjiang and…

3 hr · Medium
Chicken Lo Mein
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Chicken Lo Mein

Soft egg noodles tossed rather than fried, coated in a glossy soy and oyster sauce with chicken and crisp…

27 min · Easy
Wonton Noodle Soup
Chinese
Prep
35m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Wonton Noodle Soup

Prawn and pork wontons in a clear, dried-flounder broth with springy thin egg noodles. Cantonese, and the noodles go…

55 min · Medium
Chicken Chow Mein
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Chow Mein

Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped against…

45 min · Easy
Crispy Spring Rolls
Chinese
Prep
30m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Crispy Spring Rolls

Shatteringly crisp vegetable spring rolls with a filling that stays crunchy inside the wrapper. Cooling the filling…

75 min · Medium
Curry Laksa
Malaysian
Prep
25m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Curry Laksa

Curry laksa: a coconut and spice paste soup with two kinds of noodle, prawns, tofu puffs and cockles, finished with…

55 min · Medium
Yakisoba
Japanese
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Yakisoba

Wheat noodles fried on a griddle with cabbage, pork and a thick fruity brown sauce, finished with aonori, bonito…

27 min · Easy
Pad See Ew
Thai
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
2
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Quick Meals

Pad See Ew

Wide rice noodles charred in a screaming wok with dark soy, egg and Chinese broccoli. The dish is defined by wok…

27 min · Easy
Khao Soi
ThaiFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Khao Soi

Northern Thailand's coconut curry noodle soup, with soft egg noodles beneath and a nest of crisp fried ones on top…

55 min · Medium
Dan Dan Noodles
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Dan Dan Noodles

Chengdu street noodles: a pool of chilli oil, sesame paste and black vinegar at the bottom of the bowl, topped with…

30 min · Medium
Beef Chow Fun
Chinese
Prep
20m
Cook
12m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Beef Chow Fun

Wide rice noodles seared in a smoking wok with velveted beef, beansprouts and chives. Judged on wok hei and on…

62 min · Medium
Japchae
Korean
Prep
25m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Japchae

Chewy sweet potato noodles tossed with individually stir-fried vegetables and a sesame-soy dressing. Naturally…

40 min · Medium
Char Kway Teow
Malaysian
Prep
20m
Cook
12m
Serves
2
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Dinner

Char Kway Teow

Flat rice noodles fried at ferocious heat with prawns, Chinese sausage, cockles, egg and chives. Judged entirely on…

32 min · Medium
Sukiyaki
Japanese
Prep
20m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Sukiyaki

A hot pot cooked at the table: thin beef seared in a heavy iron pan, then simmered in a sweet soy warishita with…

40 min · Easy
Chả Giò
Vietnamese
Prep
35m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Chả Giò

Vietnamese fried spring rolls wrapped in rice paper rather than wheat wrappers, which gives a blistered, bubbly…

65 min · Medium
Bún Bò Huế
Vietnamese
Prep
30m
Cook
180m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Bún Bò Huế

Central Vietnam's spicy beef and pork noodle soup: a lemongrass and shrimp paste broth, thick round rice noodles…

3.5 hr · Hard
Pancit Canton
Filipino
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Pancit Canton

Wheat noodles tossed with pork, prawns, chicken and vegetables in a soy and oyster sauce broth the noodles absorb as…

45 min · Easy
Kake Udon Noodle Soup
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
2
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Lunch

Kake Udon Noodle Soup

Thick, bouncy udon in a clear kake broth of dashi, soy and mirin — restorative, restrained and on the table in…

25 min · Easy
Zaru Soba
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
8m
Serves
2
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Lunch

Zaru Soba

Buckwheat noodles rinsed in ice water and served cold on a bamboo mat with a small cup of concentrated dipping…

18 min · Easy
Soto Ayam
Indonesian
Prep
25m
Cook
45m
Serves
6
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Lunch

Soto Ayam

Indonesian turmeric chicken soup with a fragrant spice paste, served over noodles and rice with sambal, fried…

70 min · Medium
Mul Naengmyeon
Korean
Prep
20m
Cook
122m
Serves
2
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Healthy

Mul Naengmyeon

Chewy buckwheat noodles in an icy beef and radish broth, with pear, cucumber, sliced beef and half a boiled egg. The…

12 hr · Medium
Nikujaga
Japanese
Prep
15m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Nikujaga

Beef and potatoes simmered in dashi, soy and mirin until the potatoes have soaked up the broth and started to fall…

80 min · Easy
Ash Reshteh
Persian
Prep
30m
Cook
131m
Serves
6
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Lunch

Ash Reshteh

A thick Persian soup of beans, lentils, greens and noodles, finished with fried mint oil, crisp onions and kashk.

10.5 hr · Medium
Tuna Noodle Casserole
American
Prep
20m
Cook
50m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Rebuilt without the tin of soup: a proper mushroom béchamel, egg noodles cooked short, and a buttered crumb top with…

70–80 min · Easy
Sesame Peanut Noodles
Chinese
Prep
12m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Side dish

Sesame Peanut Noodles

Cold noodles in a peanut, sesame and black vinegar sauce, thinned with hot noodle water so it coats instead of…

22 min · Easy
Scallion Oil Noodles
Chinese
Prep
10m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Scallion Oil Noodles

Shanghai’s cong you ban mian: spring onions fried slowly in oil until they are dark and brittle, the oil they leave…

30 min · Easy
Hlelem
Tunisian
Prep
25m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Lunch

Hlelem

A thick soup of hand-broken noodles, three kinds of bean and a lot of greens, red with harissa. Winter food from the…

9.5 hr · Medium
Zhajiangmian
Chinese
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Zhajiangmian

Thick wheat noodles under a dark salty pork sauce and a heap of raw shredded vegetables that you mix in yourself at…

55 min · Easy
Da Pan Ji
Chinese
Prep
30m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Da Pan Ji

Chicken, potatoes and peppers stewed with beer and chilli in one enormous plate, with wide hand-pulled noodles slid…

90 min · Medium
Hot Dry Noodles
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Hot Dry Noodles

Wuhan's breakfast: alkaline noodles blanched, oiled, cooled and then reheated to order under sesame paste, pickled…

50 min · Easy
Hakka Noodles
Indian
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Hakka Noodles

Egg noodles tossed with shredded vegetables over a high flame. The Indian Chinese restaurant staple, and fifteen…

30 min · Easy
Jjajangmyeon
Korean
Prep
20m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Jjajangmyeon

Thick wheat noodles under a black bean sauce of pork and diced vegetables. Korea's most-ordered delivery food, eaten…

50 min · Medium
Budae Jjigae
Korean
Prep
20m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Budae Jjigae

Army base stew: kimchi, gochujang, sausage, tinned meat and instant noodles in one bubbling pan. Invented from…

45 min · Easy
Shoyu Ramen
Japanese
Prep
30m
Cook
90m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Shoyu Ramen

A clear chicken broth seasoned with a soy tare, with chashu pork, a marinated egg and thin curled noodles. The…

2.5 hr · Hard
Pad Woon Sen
Thai
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
3
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Quick Meals

Pad Woon Sen

Glass noodles tossed with egg, prawns and vegetables in a light soy dressing. Twenty-seven minutes and lighter than…

27 min · Easy
Phở Gà
Vietnamese
Prep
20m
Cook
90m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Phở Gà

Chicken pho: a clear broth of charred ginger and onion with poached chicken and flat rice noodles. Lighter than the…

110 min · Medium
AI-generated illustration of Sopa de Fideo
Mexican
Prep
10m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Sopa de Fideo

Thin noodles toasted golden in oil, then simmered in a tomato broth. Thirty minutes, and it is what Mexican children…

30 min · Easy
Hokkien Mee
Malaysian
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Hokkien Mee

Thick yellow noodles braised in dark soy with prawns, pork and cabbage until the sauce coats every strand. Kuala…

35 min · Medium
Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup
Chinese
Prep
30m
Cook
120m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup

A clear beef broth over hand-pulled noodles with white radish, coriander and a spoonful of chilli oil. Two and a…

2.5 hr · Hard
Thukpa
Nepalese
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Thukpa

A warming Himalayan noodle soup of chicken, vegetables and egg noodles in a spiced broth, finished with lime and…

55 min · Easy
Mie Goreng
Indonesian
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Mie Goreng

Egg noodles stir-fried with sweet soy sauce, garlic and chilli, with chicken, prawns and greens, and topped with…

30 min · Easy
Bakso
Indonesian
Prep
40m
Cook
70m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Bakso

Bouncy beef meatballs in a clear, savoury beef broth with noodles, tofu and fried shallots. The most popular street…

110 min · Medium

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