Spicy Thai Pasta Salad is hot, tangy, and inspired by the flavors of Thai cuisine. You’re going to love this dish!
This recipe is such a huge hit. We always have to double or triple batch this every time we make it. Forget tiny, small portions, you are going to want a heaping helping of Spicy Thai Pasta Salad. If you want to make this a more hearty main dish, you can even add shredded rotisserie chicken.
The secret to spicy Thai pasta salad is the infused oil and red pepper mixture. It sounds fancy, but infusing oils is actually really easy. The flavors continue to develop over time, so you really want to let this sit for at least 4 hours, and preferably overnight. We know it’s difficult, but trust us, it will be worth the wait!
Pasta Options:
Don’t love bowtie pasta? You can use almost any small, shaped pasta instead: penne, rotini, etc.
Peanuts: Optional
We love the crunch of the peanuts, but if you don’t share that love, or have allergies, you can always omit the peanuts.
Spice Adjustments:
This tastes best with a good kick to it, but if you prefer a mild spice, use only 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of red pepper flakes.
If you like this recipe, you may be interested in these other pot luck recipe favorites:
- Italian Pasta Salad
- Cilantro Lime Orzo Pasta Salad
- Best Macaroni Salad
- Mom’s Creamy Potato Salad
- Creamy Cucumber Salad
Watch the video below where we will walk you through every step of the recipe with a video demonstration.
Love this, one of my new favorites!
This pasta salad is so different and tastes wonderful!!
I made it yesterday for a party and people loved it!!
Wonderful dish. I shredded some chicken breasts to make it a complete dinner. I used a little more than 1 tsp of red pepper because of the additional chicken, and it was nicely warm.
I love this recipe! Yum. It was absolutely magnificent. You know its good when the last word out of everyone’s mouth is “When are you going to make this again??!” Everyone LOVED LOVED LOVED.
We loved this pasta dish! Spicy and oh so tasty!
Your recipe I will give it a try and check back with you it looks absolutely wonderful
This turned out great! Don’t leave the toppings off, they make the dish, especot the cilantro! I added the rotisserie chicken and let the mixture sit overnight for max flavor. This makes a lot of food.
I’m always looking for new side dish ideas. This recipe was super easy to follow and my boyfriend LOVED it! Like loved it to the point where he just kept talking about how good it was.
I used the entire box of pasta to avoid wasting and kept the rest of the ingredient amounts the same.
Superb recipe!
Hey what can I use to substitute sesame seed oil if a Person has an allergy to sesame seed thank you for the exciting recipe’s.
Pasta is delicious but with this combo it’s looking fkn awesome.