Thai Green Curry Chicken Soup
Everyone’s favorite Thai green curry can be made right at home into the coziest, most comforting chicken soup ever! It is so easy to make with easy-to-find ingredients, loaded with tender chicken bites, ginger, coconut milk, snow peas, lime juice, cilantro and rice noodles!
When we went to Thailand last month, we stayed at this villa in Koh Samui with a home cook that we called Mrs. Dao.
She made us an American breakfast in the mornings, made up our room when we left for the day, and whipped up dinner in a pinch when we got back.
She was simply the best. We loved her.
But guys.
She made the best green curry I have ever had in my entire life.
I don’t know if she put crack in there or something but we asked for her green curry every single night until we had to leave.
And when we got to the next villa, their green curry didn’t even hold a candle to Mrs. Dao’s green curry.
Now I wish I could say this was her recipe here.
It’s not. I couldn’t get her super secret crack-filled recipe.
But it is completely and 100% inspired by her.
To Mrs. Dao.
Thai Green Curry Chicken Soup
Ingredients
- 4 ounces rice noodles
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 ½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut into 1-inch chunks
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 onion, diced
- 3 tablespoons green curry paste
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
- 2 ½ cups chicken stock
- 1 13.5-ounce can coconut milk
- 3 cups snow peas, sliced
- 2 green onions, thinly sliced
- ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
Instructions
- Cook rice noodles according to package instructions; set aside.
- Heat canola oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper, to taste. Add chicken, garlic and onion to the stockpot and cook until golden, about 3-5 minutes.
- Stir in green curry paste and ginger until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Stir in chicken stock and coconut milk. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until reduced and thickened, about 10-15 minutes.
- Stir in snow peas, green onions, cilantro and lime juice; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Serve immediately with rice noodles.
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Hi there, can I freeze this recipe please?
Freezing sounds like an amazing idea but unfortunately, I cannot answer this with certainty as I have never tried freezing this myself. Please use your best judgment for freezing and reheating.
How well does this last in the fridge if I made it ahead of time? Should I separate the noodles?
I kept the noodles separate when I made the red curry soup. It reheats very nice.
This was so good! Who knew adding chicken stock and lime juice to green curry would make it so flavorful?! I used Mae Ploy green curry paste and added additional curry paste to suit my tastes. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing Dee!
This recipe is very unique i’ll have to give it a try never seen green curry before.
This looks delicious, but I have the cilantro soap gene. Could I make this with a different herb (suggestions?) or just leave out the cilantro or would trying to omit it just ruin the recipe?
You can omit.
Do you think this would work well with other curry pastes? I currently have red, panang, and yellow in my pantry! LOL
Yes, absolutely.
I made this last night and ate the leftovers for lunch. OMG…soooo outrageously delicious.
Thank you for this recipe.
Is it ok to use light coconut milk?
Yes, absolutely.
Mrs. Dao’s green curry sounds like something I would get hooked on too! Nothing better than being inspired to re-create a great dish, this chicken soup looks really good and loaded with a big punch of flavors, great post and recipe 🙂
This was amazing! My foodie husband and my two kids loved it! We added a little sambal on top too. Thank you for helping me provide restaurant quality meals to my family on busy weeknights. 🙂
So delicious! Served this over white jasmine rice instead of noodles. I love spicy food and I did find this to be moderately spicy using Maesri brand green curry paste and reduced fat coconut milk (perhaps the full fat milk cuts the spice better?) Will definitely make again thank you!
This is making me so hungry!
Delicious! I made this last night. I cooked the chicken longer (10 minutes), but everything else exacta written. Definitely will be part of my regular meals. Thank you for sharing.
This looks awesome! How hot is green curry? I have some in the family that can’t do too much spice. I guess I could put it less of the green curry? Just not sure how much to add (or not add) to lower the spice level.
It’s not too spicy at all! But as always, please add to taste to suit your family’s preferences.
I made this tonight with the recipe suggested amount of Mae Ploy Green Curry paste and it was so spicy as to be inedible. I don’t have experience with green curry, but if you don’t want it too spicy for the average (or even spicier than average) person, I would add maybe 1/3 to begin with and go from there.
Mae Ploy is my favorite brand (I get it from the Asian grocery store)-but it is WAY more potent than the grocery store Thai Kitchen brand. When I make curry for me, I use 1 Tbs Mae Ploy paste for a pot that serves 4–its got kick but not scary hot.
Do you have the nutritional information for this?
Lor, nutritional information is actually provided only for select and new recipes at this time. However, if it is not available for a specific recipe, I recommend using free online resources at your discretion (you can Google “nutritional calculator”) to obtain such information. Hope that helps!
This looks so good, do you think I can have this with white rice instead of rice noodles?
Yes, absolutely!
How well would leftovers keep?
I would omit the rice noodles (or at least keep it separate) for the leftovers. Hope that helps!
This looks amazing! Is there a specific green curry paste that you recommend?
I don’t really have a preferred brand, to be honest. I typically use what my grocery store carries at the time.
Yes! Mae ploy only!!! In your asian stores).
great dish, a good Sunday night dinner option, thank you for this!