This homemade creamy, spicy Chili Peanut Noodles recipe is totally delicious: made with chili oil, peanut butter, and roasted peanuts. It’s ready in under 20 minutes, making it a perfect dinner ...

Peanut and Chili Crisp Cucumber Salad. For salad: 10 mini cucumbers, cut into thick wedges. Handful of fresh cilantro, chopped. ¼ cup roasted unsalted peanuts, chopped.

Adding zing is a peanut butter-based dressing whisked with soy sauce, honey, lime juice and God’s gift to cooks: a heaping teaspoon of garlicky, umami-filled chili crisp.

Cucumbers sometimes get overlooked as fodder for a main dish or appetizer because they're so ubiquitous and, let's be honest, utilitarian.