This is a one-pot masterpiece, Teriyaki Noodles Recipe with Vegetables. This easy vegetarian meal is made with vegetables, noodles, and a simple homemade sauce all made in one pot! Perfect as a meatless main dish or the perfect accompaniment to teriyaki chicken. Ready in 25 minutes, your family will fall in love!
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How to make Teriyaki Noodles
Ingredients
Ready to make an easy one-pot meatless meal for you family? Great let’s do this.
This recipe for Teriyaki Noodles is made all in one pot: the noodles, veggies, and sauce.
Two healthy veggies are first sautéed together and then ingredients for the sauce and noodles join. The pot simmers away resulting in a delicious meal.
These noodles can hold their own as a main dish, and perhaps accompanied by Egg Drop Soup (coming soon) or a Simple Spinach Salad.
Or they can be the side to Teriyaki Chicken or Baked General Tso Chicken perhaps. They really can do it all!
Supplies:
Luckily this only requires one pot *happy dance* you will also need a few other regular kitchen tools.
- Knifes & Cutting Board
- Box Grater – or handheld grater for the carrots
- Large pot/Dutch Oven – I swear by My Dutch Oven
, it is my kitchen work horse, I you don’t have one yet I would highly recommend
- Spoon/Tongs
- Glass Measuring Cup & Measuring Spoons
Ingredients
I swear this list looks longer than it should, probably because it has a few everyday spices and water included!
- Green Cabbage – you will only need half for this recipe, one Napa cabbage could also be used
- Carrots – these will be shredded
- Oil – any neutral variety works here like olive, canola, or vegetable oil
- Soy Sauce – use low-sodium if you are sensitive to salt
- Brown Sugar
- Ground Mustard
- Ground Ginger
- Garlic Powder
- Spaghetti – a 1 pound box
- Water – in the instructions you will see that you might need to add a little extra water towards the end, I found during testing different brands of pasta take a little bit different amount
- Sesame Seeds – for finishing the dish at the end
Instructions for Making One-Pot Teriyaki Noodles
Heat your large pot over medium-high heat. Once the pot is hot add the oil, shredded cabbage, and carrots. Sauté about 5 minutes until the vegetables start to become tender.
Now add the soy sauce, brown sugar, mustard, ginger, and garlic to the pot, mix in. Add the spaghetti to the pot, it is not necessary but you can break the spaghetti in half for ease! Add the 3 ½ cups of water.
You will cook uncovered 15-18 minutes. Once the spaghetti noodles start to become maluable/bendable start stirring the pot every few minutes and more often at the end of cooking (to make sure the noodles don’t stick to the bottom).
Note that different brands of pasta require slightly different amount of water, so if you are getting towards the end of the cook time and your noodles aren’t cooked through but there isn’t enough water left add an additional ½ cup of water to the pot and continue to cook until the noodles are tender and the sauce has thickened.
Once the noodles are cooked through remove from the heat and toss the sesame seeds into the noodles. Serve immediately, garnish with more sesame seeds and if you like, green onions.
Questions, Tips, & Tricks
A good substitue for the green cabbage in one nappa cabbage shredded.
Can these teriyaki noodles be kept as leftovers and reheated?
Yes! While noodles don’t typically keep super well check out this little tip: To re-heat leftovers splash a little water on the noodles before microwaving to keep them from drying out. Just enough water to lightly coat everything.
Can I add chicken or another protein to these noodles?
Absolutely. I would recommend adding in precooked chicken towards the end of cooking (You could use leftover or rotisserie chicken).
If you like One-Pot Teriyaki Noodles you might like these recipes:
- 15 Minute Veggie Stir Fry
- Healthy Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps
- Quick & Easy Pork Fried Rice
- 20 Minute Chicken Stir Fry
And remember this goes really well with my Egg Drop Soup!
One-Pot Teriyaki Noodles
This easy vegetarian meal is made with vegetables, noodles, and a simple homemade sauce all made in one pot! Perfect as a meatless main dish or the perfect accompaniment to teriyaki chicken. Quick & easy, your family will fall in love!
Ingredients
- ½ green cabbage, shredded
- 2 carrots, shredded
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- ⅔ cup soy sauce
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground mustard
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 16oz spaghetti (1 pound box)
- 3 ½ cups water
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
Instructions
- Heat large pot over medium-high heat. Once hot add oil, shredded cabbage, and carrots. Sauté about 5 minutes until the vegetables start to become tender.
- Add soy sauce, brown sugar, mustard, ginger, and garlic to the pot, mix in. Add spaghetti to the pot, it is not necessary but you can break the spaghetti in half for ease. Add 3 ½ cups of water.
- Cook uncovered 15-18 minutes*. Once the spaghetti noodles start to become maluable/bendable start stirring the pot every few minutes and more often at the end of cooking (to make sure the noodles don't stick to the bottom).
- Once the noodles are cooked through remove from the heat and toss the sesame seeds into the noodles. Serve immediately, garnish with more sesame seeds and if you like, green onions.
Notes
*Different brands of pasta require slightly different amount of water, so if you are getting towards the end of the cook time and your noodles aren't cooked through but there isn't enough water left add an additional ½ cup of water to the pot and continue to cook until the noodles are tender and the sauce has thickened.
A good substitue for the green cabbage in one nappa cabbage shredded.
To re-heat leftovers splash a little water on the noodles before microwaving to keep them from drying out.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 220Total Fat: 2gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 1590mgCarbohydrates: 44gFiber: 3gSugar: 18gProtein: 7g
Nutritional data is automated, final nutritional information will depend on ingredients used and any changes made.
I’m wondering if spaghetti not pre cooking if it gives the dish a starchy pasta taste?
I made this recipie today and it turned out delicious!! I did add some water chestnuts and then some pre-steamed broccoli after it had cooked. Definitely will be making this again.
This was a fail for me. My pasta was a gummy glob no matter how much stirring or adding additional water I tried.
Same 🙁
Same for me. Might try this again but cook the noodles separately.
Absolutely the same, wasted a lot of food on this one. Disappointed.
Kochst du das wirklich so?? Ja es ist sehr stärkehaltig. Wir haben das nicht gegessen, schade um die Zutaten.
LG
I love this recipe better most restaurants, just watch the water and keep stirring as instructions state and add little more water if needed
The quantity was perfect for my family of 5 and it came out deliciously! I made the noodles separate from the sauce and added some ground beef for added protein, and it was still easy and tasted amazing. yum!! 🙂 Thank you!
Like some other commenters, this was a total failure – not masterpiece – for me. The pasta turned out gummy and starchy tasting. Nobody in my family liked it that much. It was barely edible, so at least it wasn’t wasted.
I made these for dinner the other night and they were okay! Not a ton of flavor to them, but my super picky kids ate them. I can see how other reviews would struggle with sticky noodles! I think I’d add more vegetables and a protein, as another reviewer suggested. Worth playing around with as a base recipe and customizing it to taste preference! I liked that it didn’t take a ton of time to make and could all be done in one pot.
Love this recipe! Super simple and delicious. I added some broccoli and shrimp- made a perfect addition.