I shared this easy pantry dish last week on IG stories and have heard SO much tasty feedback from you guys! It’s quickly become a comfort dish for us, so I love hearing that many of your families including little ones have lapped it up and requested it again. This is inspired by the garlic noodles that I’ve only been able to find at crawfish / seafood boil restaurants – these restaurants often have mixed cultural influences, so it’s no surprise they came up with a tasty fusion dish involving buttery, garlicky noodles with subtle Asian flavors.
This was Nick’s best attempt using what we had in our kitchen, so adjust the toppings and ratios per your tastes and based on what you have on hand. We used shrimp that we had in the freezer, but I’ve loved seeing your renditions with either mushrooms, spinach, fish, bacon, sausage, or served alone with a glass of wine – yum!
For more easy meal ideas, check out our past Extra (Ap)Petite recipe posts!
EXTRA (AP)PETITE: ADDICTIVE GARLIC NOODLES
Ingredients
- Half a box or 8 oz of pasta*
- Approximately 6 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 to 2 Tbsp butter
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
For the sauce
- 1 Tbsp oyster sauce**
- 1 tsp soy or fish sauce***
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar
For toppings
- Chopped scallions
- Parmesan cheese
- Optional: Drizzle of sesame oil, black pepper, Trader Joe’s chili onion crunch hot sauce
Instructions
- Cook pasta per box instructions in lightly salted water, and set aside a little pasta water in a bowl for later. Drain the pasta, rinse under cold water to avoid clumping and set aside.
- While pasta is cooking, chop up and heat the garlic in a large pan with the olive oil and butter over low-medium heat for 5 – 10 minutes, until garlic softens and is fragrant. It’s important to cook the garlic slowly on heat that isn’t too high, to avoid burning the garlic. You can let it sit in the pan and don’t need to constantly sauté it – maybe just stir once every few minutes. The goal is to infuse the garlic flavor into the butter and oil.
- Note: if you’re including shrimp or other seafood, season it separately then simply sauté it in the garlic oil..S et your cooked seafood aside to mix in later.
- Mix up the sauce in a separate small bowl. Soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, and optional fish sauce.
- Add noodles to the pan once the garlic is done sautéing, while keeping the heat on. Toss the noodles, garlic, sauce mixture and scallions. Add in a little of the saved pasta water to help everything mix smoothly.
- Top with grated parmesan cheese and an optional drizzle of sesame oil and chilis!
Notes
Garlic butter and oil cooking slowly on low-medium heat.
Season optional seafood (used defrosted frozen shrimp here), cook in garlic, and set aside to avoiding overcooking.
Pasta drained with a little pasta water set aside, while garlic finishes sautéing.
Toss cooked noodles with the garlic butter, sauce, and scallions.
Garnish with parmesan cheese, a drizzle of sesame oil, and some chili and black pepper if desired.
I love seeing your take on this dish! Thanks for sharing the below photos with me!
Love this recipe! Made it twice already for my family. Thanks Jean!
Addicting! Thanks for sharing!
I’m literally eating this as I type this review. The hype is REAL y’all. I’ve been wanting to try this for a long time and finally had all the ingredients to do it. I used fettuccine and a LOT of garlic. Recipe was super easy to follow. Dish was so easy to make! Even hubby loves it! Thank you for this awesome recipe Jean!❤️
I’ve been looking for a good “Asian” garlic noodle recipe for awhile now, to replicate what I’ve had at restaurants. This one is the simplest , tastiest one I’ve come across! Love that it doesn’t require a lot of ingredients, just a few most home cooks already have.
This recipe is soooo good, sooo easy and yes, so addicting. I have made this recipe with different proteins and blanched veggies on the side. Definitely a family’s favourite! Even my 8y/o daughter who’s very picky, loves it. Four thumbs up ( including her toes) she said lol!!!
These noodles were delicious and super easy to customize with veggies and different proteins!
Thanks for sharing your recipe! It was delicious and super easy.
Ah-mazing!
Easy to make, super delicious and nutritious!
I love this quick and simple recipe and yet so delicious!!!
This is so good!! Just tried the recipe this evening. Can’t believe how simple and delicious it is!
made it.love it.
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My hubbie & I LOVED this recipe (as well as the scallion pancakes)! Jean, U r helping cope with this stay-at-home situation by providing is witn new, fun & easy recipes. Thank uou!!!
I make this once a week!
SO GOOD! I woke up the next morning excited to have the leftovers for breakfast.
Seriously so good and so easy. Would totally recommend!
Very easy recipe that packs a lot of flavor! Also so versatile – you can add anything you want for protein. I sauté crabs with garlic & the sauce then toss the noddles to coat. Topped with cilantro and a spritz of lemon. So good!
Delish! My kids and husband couldn’t get enough! They were fighting for the last spoon of noodles!
Quick and easy recipe. It was yummy!
I dream of these noodles, they’re that delicious!!
Soo easy to make and delicious!
Made it twice already! Totally delicious and pretty easy. Planning to make it for my parents soon
Quick, simple, and delicious!
So good👍
Just made this tonight! Have made it so many times during quarantine and does not get old!
Delicious!!
Excellent!
so quick and easy!! and addicting!!
Yum!!! Easy recipe!
Delicious! My family loves it!
So easy, so good AND my 2 year old are more than I did! Am making again only 5 days later!
Amazing recipe! Even tastier than I expected! Tastes really good with chicken and sliced bell peppers – we made it twice in one week!
So simple, sooo good! This has become a weekday lunch on repeat!!! 🤩
Loved it!!!!
they don’t look like much but they are AMAZING. my not Asian bf also loved it!! He was wary watching me make it with fish sauce and oyster sauce but he couldn’t get enough of it! Only thing is we would prob use less sugar next time. Still amazing recipe and was delicious with scallops
What an amazing, simple and very flavorful recipe! Thank you so much for sharing!! 😋
So delicious!!
The whole family loved it!! Will make this again!! Thanks for sharing!!
Love how easy the recipe was and my son who is 1 year old is addicted to it! And he’s a picky eater! Thank you.
Delicious!
Love it! Thanks for sharing
Suuper yummy and easy to make. I am a newbie cook, but was able to pull this all together! It was a hit with my family, including my SUPER PICKY 21 month old! We have made it three times now!! Thanks for the recipe, Jean!
Really easy and delicious recipe
These are amazing! I’ve cooked them so many times already and will literally eat them every meal without complaining.
Easy and delicious
This recipe is AH-MA-ZINGGGGG!!! Thank you so much for sharing. We decided to try it after seeing all the kiddos on your stories that were loving it. We love it too! It’s become a staple in our home, we eat it at least once every two weeks 😄 if it weren’t because of the carbs, we’d eat this weekly!
Delicious! Rave reviews from the whole family. I had to try it as soon as I saw your post. Thank you for sharing!
Loved this recipe
Thankful for your quick, simple and delicious recipes! Just made garlic shrimp noodz for lunch this week!
Great recipe! Merci!!!