Choose Your Own Adventure Cold Sesame Noodle Bowls

A choose-your-own-adventure meal: sesame bowls with noodles, fresh veggies, and a delicious sesame sauce.

5 from 3 votes

Choose Your Own Adventure Cold Sesame Noodle Bowls

A fun, family-friendly sesame noodle bowl recipe that’s easy to customize and perfect for busy days. Learn how to serve it to babies, toddlers, and the whole family with fresh veggies, simple ingredients, and tasty sesame sauce.

Prep Time20

Cook Time8

Total Time28

Course: Dinner, Lunch

Cuisine: asian

Servings:

Calories: 238kcal

Author: Jessica Penner & Nita Sharda

Ingredients

Cooked noodles - you can use any variety you’d like such as spaghetti ramen noodles, rice, vermicelli noodles, soba noodles

Veggie Add Ins:

Beets shredded
Bell peppers sliced thinly
Cabbage try Napa, Savoy or Red Cabbage
Carrots julienned
Snap peas sliced thinly
Cucumber juliened
Avocado

Protein:

Chicken cooked
Edamame
Shrimp cooked
Tofu

Garnishes

Cilantro chopped
Green onion sliced thinly
Peanuts or your favorite nut chop for a toddler
Sesame seeds

Dressing

½ cup canola oil
¼ cup rice vinegar
3 tablespoon water or more
2 tablespoon brown sugar
2 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoon tahini
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon gochujang
1 pinky finger sized knob of fresh ginger
1 clove of garlic

Video

Notes

To make the dressing: add all ingredients into a high speed blender. Blend for about 30 to 60 seconds until you have a smooth dressing. You can add more water to help obtain the desired consistency. Set the sauce aside
For the noodles: prepare the noodles according to the package directions. Set the noodles aside. You are welcome to toss them with a bit of oil to prevent the noodles from sticking and clumping up together.
For the vegetable toppings: slice all of the vegetables into thin strips or bite sized pieces. You can use a julienne for this as well. We recommend having atleast 3 types of vegetables but you can have less or more!
Protein: you can choose to use any protein that feels tasty to you! Shrimp, tofu, edamame, cooked chicken are all options that will work beautifully. Just slice into bite sized pieces.
To assemble: place noodles into your bow. Top with vegetables, protein, garnishes and then drizzle with sesame dressing.

ALLERGEN INFO: the sauce contains sesame seeds and soy, which are both top allergens.

For the latest recommendations for introducing food allergens to babies, please visit our e-course Start Solids Confidently.

NUTRITION INFO: included for sauce only

Nutrition