This dish is a fine example of a ‘spur of the moment’ dish – A lazy sunday morning where breakfast happens late and then more laziness till about 1 PM. What do people want to eat for lunch? No response. Two heads poring over the iPad doing God knows what. Then when hunger pangs do come, mom has to rustle up something quick since people are really going to ‘die of hunger’ ! sigh! Normally I would just make a pasta – maybe add some shrimp like the shrimp linguini I posted a while ago. Or a pasta with vegetables. But now I am on a gluten free diet. Also dairy free. Also tomato free. Yup. So the pasta option goes out the window since I am certainly not in the mood to cook two different dishes. Hence rice noodles to the rescue!
I quickly got the chicken out from the freezer and defrosted a couple thigh pieces. I was not in the mood for adding soy and chill sauces as I usually do. Or make the sweet and spicy noodles like I made a few weeks ago. Maybe because I was in the mood for eating chicken curry at night. Yes did I tell you my husband makes a mean chicken curry? So anyways, that’s the direction I was going. I quickly marinated the chicken pieces in some curry spices and then made this delicious curry noodles also adding some vegetables into the mix to get a complete meal together in about 40 minutes!
Btw, rice noodles come in a variety of different types and brands. I love ‘Mai Fun’ noodles which are really thin rice noodles like vermicelli and I get them from Whole Foods.
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Your family is definitely spoiled with such a wonderful lunch. My family might get something like this for dinner, but lunch…grilled cheese. Thank you for posting.
ha ha. yes I hope they realize it 🙂 And you are very welcome!
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Oh it looks gorgeous! I’d probably be like, make yourself a pb&j!! lol!! Pinning!! Thanks for joining us again at Throwback Thursday!!
Mollie
ha ha 🙂 yeah I try to make it up on the weekends for them 🙂
Oh my goodness, this dish looks fantastic! I love noodles, so I am going to make it this weekend.
Susan, do lmk how it turns out! It is quite easy to put together too!
These look great I’ve only ever had rice noodles stir fried with Chinese flavors, curry slices sound like a splendid Idea, thanks Indu for sharing 🙂
You are welcome. yeah I am sure you’ll like the curry flavors in here! thanks for stopping by!
Vermicelli noodles and curry spices are such a great flavor combo. This looks delicious, Indu. I’d love some for my dinner tonight! 😀
yes Patty they sure turned out so good. you can never go wrong with rice noodles and chicken curry so the combo is just dynamite 🙂