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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so much flavor, so easy to make. It was a hit. Will definitely make again.
Delicious and easy to make. I will make again.
I can’t find the nutritional info? Also – do you use full fat coconut milk or would light work okay? Thanks!
Can you make and freeze
I make this all the time and freeze it. Freezes and that’s out well.
We love going to the local Asian market and buying a small tub of panang curry paste- to obviously make panang curry. We have loved making this soup and substitute 1/3 of the red curry for panang curry. Definitely gives it a little more kick. Highly recommend! The recipe is great as is though!
This is a great recipe I’ve made it several times with raw and leftover chicken and I think shrimp as well and it turns out wonderful every time. I don’t have any red curry paste right now but I have green. Has anybody tried it with green curry paste?
Delicious love the texture and family was all happy with it
I’ve made this a few times, it’s always a winner!! Everyone in the family loves it!!
This was so good!!! Made with ground chicken instead. Yum yum. Thanks for the recipe!!!
This is one of my favorite meals. It’s also my girlfriend’s favorite. we make it regularly. At her suggestion we added about half a carton of presliced mushrooms… which I don’t really enjoy…I tried it throughout the cooking process and at first it tasted overwhelming. When I got to adding the fish sauce and brown sugar, the mushroom taste had diminished and started to play off the umami from the fish sauce and turned out really nice.
I recommend giving it a try.
Also shared this with my mom who loves shrimp. She highly recommends using shrimp instead of chicken.
This was amazing. Only thing was its a bit too spicy for my family. My toddler could not eat it.
Can you freeze this?
Personally I have frozen this soup and it was OK when reheated. Thaw in refrigerator before low to medium heat. I don’t recommend the microwave for reheated this soup.
A great recipe for comfort food
Love this disb. Quickly became one on the weekly rotation. Everyone I have made it for wants the recipe. I do make minor tweaks, like omit sugar and fish sauce. Add some jalapeño or other hot pepper, and mushrooms.
Have made this dish twice now and it is a perfect match to any I’ve had in fine dining
Zingy, spicy, coconut creamy. As nice as any I’ve had from a Thai restaurant.
Super delicious! I’ve been burned in the past by Asian-inspired dishes, so I wasn’t expecting this one to taste that good, but I’m so glad I was wrong. My husband also loved it and enjoyed helping me make it. 10/10 will be making again!!
can the stock be frozen ?
i know it dosent take to long to cook but can i make a big pot of stock and freeze it ?
Can I freeze the soup?
This is damn delicious! I had to do a modification due to not having the red curry paste available. I used 2 tbsp of yellow curry paste and 1.5 tbsp of spicy red pepper paste. I also used mung bean vermicelli for the noodles. I topped each bowl with additional fresh cilantro. My husband and I loved this and I’ll definitely make it again.