Linguine Salad with Peanut Sauce

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1. Cook linguine as directed on box, but undercook slightly. Drain. Rinse with cool water.
2. In a large bowl, combine linguini, scallions, and cucumber.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together peanut butter, vinegar, soy sauce, water, oil, garlic, 5-spice powder, and hot sauce.
4. Arrange lettuce on platter. Spoon linguine mixture into the middle. Drizzle dressing over top. Garnish with sesame seeds and tomato wedges.

Variations:
1. For a heartier dish, add cubed cooked chicken or turkey.
2. Serve hot, replacing the cucumbers with cooked zucchini.

Tip: I like to triple the peanut sauce and keep it in the refrigerator to use as a salad dressing or dipping sauce for grilled chicken.

Note: Reprinted from Fix-it and Enjoy-it! Cookbook. Copyright by Good Books ( www.goodbks.com). (Published by Good Books; April 2006; $15.95US; 1-56148-526-8) Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Author
Phyllis Pellman Good is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold more than 8.5 million copies.

Good has authored the national #1 bestselling cookbook Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker (with Dawn J. Ranck), which appeared on The New York Times bestseller list, as well as the bestseller lists of USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Book Sense. And she is the author of Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly: Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker, which has also appeared on The New York Times bestseller list. In addition, Good authored Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining: Slow Cooker Favorites for All the Year Round (with Ranck) and Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook (with the American Diabetes Association), also in the series.

Good's other cookbooks include Favorite Recipes with Herbs, The Best of Amish Cooking, and The Central Market Cookbook.

Phyllis Pellman Good is Senior Editor at Good Books. (Good Books has published hundreds of other titles by more than 125 different authors.) She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from New York University. She and her husband, Merle, live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of two young-adult daughters.

For a complete listing of books by Phyllis Pellman Good, as well as excerpts and reviews, visit www.goodbks.com.

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