15-Minute Coconut Curry Noodle Soup
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4.9
15-Minute Coconut Curry Noodle Soup
Description
This Coconut Curry Noodle Soup blends fragrant Thai red curry paste with chicken, garlic, and ginger, simmered in a rich broth featuring chicken stock, water, fish sauce, and creamy coconut milk. The soup is seasoned and brought to a boil before being poured over dried rice vermicelli noodles that soften in the hot liquid. Alternatively, the noodles can be cooked directly in the broth before dividing into bowls.
The resulting soup delivers a mildly spicy and aromatic flavor profile with tender chicken pieces throughout. Fresh garnishes such as lime juice, red onion slices, red chili, cilantro, and scallions add brightness and a hint of heat when added to taste at serving time. The texture combines silky noodles and juicy chicken enveloped in the rich, spiced broth.
Ideal for a quick lunch or light dinner, this soup requires minimal active cooking time. Adjust seasoning as needed by tasting and balancing saltiness or adding water to mellow excess salt.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons neutral cooking oil generic cooking oil
- 3 garlic chopped, cloves
- 1 tablespoon ginger grated, fresh
- 3 tablespoons Thai red curry paste
- 8 oz. chicken breast 225g, sliced, or thighs; boneless
- 4 cups chicken broth (950 ml)
- 1 cup water (235 ml)
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 2/3 cup coconut milk (160 ml)
- 6 oz. rice vermicelli noodles 170g, dried
- lime to garnish, lime wedges, sliced red onion, red chilis
- red onion
- red chili
- cilantro
- scallion
Instructions
- In a large pot over medium heat, add the oil, garlic, ginger, and Thai red curry paste. Fry for 5 minutes, until fragrant. Add the chicken and cook for a couple minutes, just until the chicken turns opaque.
- Add the chicken broth, water, fish sauce, and coconut milk. Bring to a boil. At this point, taste the broth for salt and adjust seasoning accordingly (add salt if needed, or if it's too salty, add a bit of water). Pour the boiling soup over the dried vermicelli noodles in your serving bowls, add a squeeze of lime juice and your garnishes, and serve. The noodles will be ready to eat in a couple minutes.
- (Alternatively, you can add the noodles to the boiling broth to cook them, and then divide among serving bowls).
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 3bowls
Amount Per Serving
Calories 634 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 634kcal | 32% |
| Carbohydrates | 57g | 19% |
| Protein | 23g | 46% |
| Fat | 36g | 55% |
| Saturated Fat | 15g | 75% |
| Cholesterol | 74mg | 25% |
| Sodium | 1210mg | 50% |
| Potassium | 600mg | 13% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 2g | 4% |
| Vitamin A | 2420IU | 48% |
| Vitamin C | 5.7mg | 6% |
| Calcium | 69mg | 7% |
| Iron | 3.7mg | 21% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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