Shirataki noodle recipes

Anybpdy have any good recipes for these amazingly low-cal and low-fat noodles?  I would really like to start adding them into my diet a couple of times a week but am not certain how to prepare them.

Well, I'm not sure if you're familiar with Hungry Girl, but she has tons of recipes for them. Cold sesame noodles, Fettuccine, and a lot of others. Just search her site for "shirataki".

What I do with them usually is (after rinsing and drying), throwing them in a frying pan with cut up peppers, onions, and lately summer squash, and a little soy sauce, and voila, stirfry! I sprinkle some garlic and ginger powder as well. It's yummy!

http://www.hungry-girl.com/chew/chewdetails.p hp?isid=1741

I tried it an liked it!

what are shirataki noodles and where do you guys buy them?

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Shiritake noodles are yam noodles.  I am pretty sure they are of Japanese origin, they are opaque and white or opaque white with small black/brown flecks throughout.  The great thing about them is that they contain bulk without a lot of calories, here is the nutritional info on the 16 oz. container I bought:

Servings per container about 5  3oz. (85gram) servings

Calories  5

Total Fat 0g

Cholesterol 0g

Sodium  5mg

Total Carb  2g

Protein 0g

I buy them in a large chinese grocery store and a small Korean grocery place.  They are sold wet packed and refrigerated.

5 CALORIES? you shall have to let me know how they are! sounds too good to be true!

i usually just eat them with some home "peanut sauce"- peanut butter, hot sauce and bragg's aminos... delicious! make sure you rinse them and them and then dry them with a paper towel or too (like you would dry tofu). the texture is a bit different than a rice or wheat noodle but it is SO worth it to experiement and find a way to make them work!

So here's what's for dinner....Chicken Fettuccine alfredo.

Shirataki noodle

chicken

laughing cow light cheese 1/2 wedge (or whole wege and forget the rest)

1 tsp fat free sour cream

2 tsp reduced fat parmesan

salt and pepper (if you want)

from what hungry girl says thicker sauces work better with these noodles vrs. like a thin tomato sauce,  she also has a low main receipe I'm gonna try that or make my own

I like to eat shirataki in Japanese soup called nabe.  Try a dashi-based broth flavored with either soy sauce and mirin or miso, add a protein like chicken, fish, tofu, hard boiled eggs, or shellfish, and vegetables like leeks, wakame, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, potatoes, daikon radish, and Chinese cabbage.  It is very filling but low-calorie.

And I don't know if it's because I live in Japan and I'm a purist or what, but the idea of eating shirataki in the place of spaghetti with Italian style tomato and cheese sauces really puts me off.  It's just so wrong.