This Vegan Pad Thai with Thai Peanut Sauce packs a punch with colorful veggies including sweet potato noodles, red peppers, pea pods, red onions and tossed with a delicious Thai peanut sauce. Top with toasted quinoa and you’re off to enjoy a delicious vegan meal!
Pad Thai is ALWAYS my go-to when I’m out to eat for Thai in Minneapolis, especially if it’s packed with a ton of colorful veggies. If you live in the Twin Cities, Sen Yai Sen Lek, Karta Thai and Naviya’s are our absolute faves! So, we set out to create our own Pad Thai recipe with a ton of veggies, and instead of the traditional chopped peanuts served on the side of the dish, we created the most creamy Thai peanut sauce. AND the entire recipe is vegan. Yessir.
Vegan Meal Prep
This vegan Pad Thai with Thai Peanut Sauce is the answer to all your vegan meal prep dreams. Not only is it quick and easy to make, but it’s packed with all those delish bright colored veggies. A batch of this Pad Thai can be easily meal prepped at the beginning of the week for yummy lunches or quick weeknight dinners. Or, if you’re having people over for a meal, this recipe can serve a crowd.
Thai Peanut Sauce
This Thai peanut sauce is made with a garbanzo bean base + a few other clean ingredients that are all placed directly into your food processor and pureed to perfection in seconds. The combination of garbanzo beans, creamy natural peanut butter, vegetable broth, tamari, sriracha, and a bit of lime juice make this Thai peanut sauce so creamy and a delicious thickness to be added to your vegan Pad Thai.
Toasted Quinoa for Vegan Pad Thai
The toasted quinoa garnish for this vegan Pad Thai is a real game-changer. While many traditional Pad Thai recipes call for diced peanuts on the side, since we were already doing a Thai peanut sauce, we wanted to add an alternative that would add a nice little crunch. Insert: toasted quinoa. SO easy to whip up, and so delicious. Simply turn the heat to high and add a 1/4 cup of uncooked white quinoa to a small skillet. Constantly stir the quinoa with a wooden spoon until it begins to brown. As soon as the quinoa starts to brown and pop a little bit, turn the heat off and remove from the pan. Voila!
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Vegan Pad Thai with Thai Peanut Sauce
Ingredients
Sauce
- 1/2 cup garbanzo beans drained, rinsed, and de-cased
- 1/4 cup all-natural creamy peanut butter
- 2 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 tablespoon tamari
- 2 teaspoon sriracha
- 1/2 cup vegetable broth divided
Pad Thai
- 4 oz. white rice noodles*
- 1 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 large red pepper thinly sliced
- 1/2 red onion sliced
- 1 heaping cup pea pods
- 2 cups spiralized sweet potato 1/2 large sweet potato
Toasted Quinoa
- 1/4 cup quinoa uncooked
Optional Toppings
- lime juice
- peanuts
- fresh cilantro
Instructions
- First, prepare creamy Thai peanut sauce. Place all ingredients except for (1/4 cup of vegetable broth) into a food processor or high-speed blender and blend until pureed together. Set aside.
- Next, prep ingredients for the pad Thai stir-fry. Thinly slice a large red pepper, slice 1/2 a red onion, and spiralize 1/2 large sweet potato (any blade will work, but we used blade D).
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet or wok over medium/high heat. When olive oil is fragrant, add in minced garlic, red pepper, onion, and pea pods. Saute for 7-10 minutes or until all vegetables are cooked.
- While the vegetables are sauteeing, follow the directions on the back of your rice noodle package to prepare the noodles. At the same time toast your quinoa in a small skillet. Turn heat to high and add quinoa to your small pan. Constantly stir the quinoa with a wooden spoon until it begins to brown. Then, turn the heat off and remove from pan. Set aside.
- Once veggies and rice noodles are done cooking, add drained rice noodles into the stir-fry pan/wok and mix. Then, pour on Thai peanut sauce and mix everything together.
- Add the final 1/4 cup of vegetable broth to your pad thai and mix. If the peanut sauce is still too thick for your liking, slowly add 1 tablespoon of broth to pad Thai until it is thin enough for your liking.
- Finally, top dish with toasted quinoa, a squeeze of lime juice, chopped peanuts, and fresh cilantro. Enjoy immediately.
Tips & Notes
- If you do not want to use white rice noodles, omit and double the amount of spiralized sweet potatoes to sub for your normal noodles.
- If you have leftover garbanzo beans from your can, option to add them to your stir fry!
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We loved this! Had to make some swaps since the grocery stores are so picked over. Made it with just Asian noodles. Will definitely make again!!!
Tried this tonight and it came out great! The sauce is perfect- not too strong or salty- just right. Definitely recommend!
They get added in with the other veggies in step 3 (as seen on a video on FB). Should probably be added in for clarification though as I had to go looking myself.
When do you add the sweet potato noodles?
My sauce came out incredibly creamy 👍 but next time I would do alot less chickpeas as I found they really take away from the peanut taste and made my sauce quite bland tasting.
what do you mean by “decased” garbanzo beans? do you have to pick off the outer layer one by one?
Yes! Remove the outer casing of the garbanzo beans!
It’s actually pretty easy if you roll them on a plate. A lot of them will slip off on their own. 🙂