Thai Red Curry Noodle Soup
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Yes, you can have Thai takeout right at home! This soup is packed with so much flavor with bites of tender chicken, rice noodles, cilantro, basil and lime juice!
It’s been about 6 weeks since our Thailand trip.
And yes, I needed a teeny tiny break from Thai food. But let’s be real. That only lasted like 0.2345 seconds.
So I’m back on the Thai food binge for the foreseeable future, starting with this noodle soup.
Now you know I love a red curry. But I love it even more with rice noodles.
It’s so cozy, it’s so comforting, and it’s so fragrant with all the cilantro, basil and lime juice. Although I always add a little bit of extra lime juice to my bowl for that extra zesty kick!
Thai Red Curry Noodle Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 ½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1/2-inch chunks
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1 onion, diced
- 3 tablespoons red curry paste
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
- 6 cups low sodium chicken broth
- 1 (13.5-ounce) can coconut milk
- 4 ounces rice noodles
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 3 green onions, thinly sliced
- ½ cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- ¼ cup chopped fresh basil leaves
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
Equipment
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper, to taste. Add chicken to the stockpot and cook until golden, about 2-3 minutes; set aside.
- Add garlic, bell pepper and onion. Cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 3-4 minutes.
- Stir in red curry paste and ginger until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Stir in chicken broth and coconut milk, scraping any browned bits from the bottom of the pot.
- Stir in chicken. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until reduced, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in rice noodles, fish sauce and brown sugar until noodles are tender, about 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat; stir in green onions, cilantro, basil and lime juice; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Serve immediately.
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This was incredible! We like extra heat so we added a couple of Serrano peppers, followed everything else to a T! So delicious and flavorful, thank you!
I added a little zing to it by adding red chili flakes. My son said it was the best thing I have ever made.
It was fast to make and super easy. Thank you!
Greatest soup ever!! Left noodles out. It was seriously so delicious
Good taste look , today hope to try at home
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Loved this. Easy enough to make. Just prep first so you don’t burn your onions because you still chopping and shredding. The soup was great and authentic tasting. Will definitely make again and shared with my family for them to make as well
My girlfriends. Are raving wanting this recipe! Sharing the love!
Oh my gosh, this was fabulous! I’m a canner, so I used the canned chicken and homemade chicken broth I had on hand ( made it extra easy!) also added a shake of red pepper flakes to take it up a notch. I also added extra veggies as others advised, carrots, water chestnuts, mushrooms etc, I will add even more next time. Once you get the chopping done to comes together fairly quickly. I’ll be making this on a regular basis.
Holy Moly this is our new favorite soup! I followed the recipe but added match stick carrots. My hubs loves it and I may be obsessed with it!
Great and versatile recipe ! I’m vegan so i went for vegan “chicken” and it worked like a dream. It’s also very easy to add veggies in depending on the season. thank you !
This was great and easy to make! Thanks!
Incredible! Made this amazing delicious recipe last night/whole family loved it— was all gone by the end of dinner. I had to use culantro because I was out of cilantro and it still tasted incredibly delicious-also I opted to add two finely chopped carrots. So healthy and delicious I will be keeping this in our rotation
I just made this the other night and it came out amazing! And I love how quick it was to make! I added mushrooms to mine as well and it was devoured. I will definitely be making again.
Delicious !! I substituted the cilantro and the green onions with fresh chives .
This was the best Thai food I’ve ever made. My partner said that her favorite Curry soup is from the Shanghai airport and this beat it!! I made the recipe exactly, except I used coconut sugar instead of brown sugar and added crushed peanuts to the top. 11/10 will make again soon!
I went to a Thai restaurant and had their soup then I found this recipe. I made it and it was much better than theirs. Love this soup and make it all the time. I make it with rotisserie chicken.
My husband and I slurped down two bowls and drank the broth. Amazing.
So very good, and easy too!
Thai basil would be even better!!
So delicious and easy to make!
I’ve made this before and it was really good, but tonight I realized I’m out of fish sauce. Do you have any recommendations?
Hoisin is a great substitute for fish sauce!