The 18 Best Warm Noodle Dishes to Get You Through Winter

Yakisoba is a very adaptable noodle stir-fry. Take creative liberty and add whatever vegetables and thick-cut proteins you have on hand. Some ideas to get you on your way: bacon, mushrooms, peas, corn, bok choy, Broccolini, hearty greens.

A thick sauce made of black bean paste, fatty pork belly, and soft vegetables meets extremely slurpable noodles in this cozy Chinese-Korean noodle dish.

Got 15 minutes? Then you can make this delicious noodle recipe with pantry ingredients like miso paste, tahini, and chile crisp.

A generous slather of keema — ground meat plus chili oil made with South Asian pickling spices — turns a package of instant Maggi noodles into a deeply satisfying meal.

This popular Japanese pasta dish with kielbasa, sliced onions, and green bell pepper has one surprising ingredient — ketchup!

This hot, steaming bowl of fragrant, spicy broth with noodles, prawns, and eggs is a common dish in Malaysia. The key component is the spice paste. Although it takes a bit of time, once you’ve made it, you can keep it in the fridge for up to a month. Or, if you are short-changed on time, store-bought paste is completely fine.

This noodle stir-fry has a wonderful sweet-savory element from soy sauce and sugar; toastiness from sesame oil; and lots of texture from the chewy, bouncy noodles, colorful veggies, and thin slivers of beef. It’s the perfect harmony of flavors.

A less stew-y, more cheesy and noodle-heavy version of Korean Army Stew.

Make the pad Thai of your dreams with a handful of key ingredients.

Rabokki is the addition of ramyun into tteokbokki, chewy Korean rice cakes stir-fried in a spicy-sweet gochujang sauce. It's cheap, quick to cook, and will you warm you from the inside out.

Mì Xào Tỏi, a longstanding Vietnamese American favorite, got its start in the late 1970s, where it was served with roasted crab and giant prawns.

Meera Sodha's take on ramen combines sticky onion with miso, stock, and sake to create a very special-tasting noodle soup.

After a long, cold winter day, look for ultimate restoration in a bowl of aromatic vegetable broth, slippery noodles, and fresh, customizable garnishes.

Long-simmered slices of tender beef, chile, and star anise glow up this essential Taiwanese noodle soup from cookbook author Cathy Erway. Feel free to use any-width variety of Asian fresh wheat noodles.

Stir-fried lo mein noodles with plum, juicy shrimp, and perfectly cooked broccoli is a fast and family-friendly meal.

A speedy noodle soup doesn't have to skimp on quality. By cooking the udon straight inside the broth, the noodle block itself cooks quickly while its starches thicken the broth to render a silky body.

If you love thick noodles, you'll already be obsessed with drunken noodles. This at-home recipe only takes 25 minutes to make.