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 soup is so delicious! My husband is not a soup person but he can have 2 huge bowls of this!! It’s soooo good.
Excellent- really easy and very tasty
This is a regular in our house! After I cook the veggies, I toss the chicken breast in along with the chicken broth and cook it for 20-30 minutes. Then I shred the chicken, toss it back in, add the coconut milk and follow the rest of the directions. I cook my noodles separately, only as much as I need for one meal. Once cooked, I put them in the bowls, pour the soup over and garnish. This prevents soggy noodles in your leftover soup.
3 tablespoons of red curry paste seem a lot. I use Mae Poly brand. I guess it depends how spicy you want. Thank you for this recipe.
This was so good!
This was a delicious dish! I cooked the noodles separately and decreased the amount of cilantro to taste but I highly recommend this.
Soo good .. I used mushrooms instead of peppers and left out the onions and garlic ..but it was still delicious! thank you for sharing
Love the depth of flavor! The only minor thing I changed, used 4c of pho broth and 2c unsalted chx stock, because I had it on hand. Honestly, this is one of the best soups I’ve made, thanks to your recipe! Damn deelish!
I made this tonight. No chicken, added a ton of veggies, used veg broth so it was all vegan. Soooo delicious. I cooked up some ramen noodles to eat with it, for individual servings, didn’t add it to the soup in general. Very easy, versatile and delicious dish. Even my picky 9 year old said ‘it’s ACTUALLY good’ yaaayyy preteen attitude! I will make this again.
Delicious! I love the spice and creaminess of this soup. I added some bok choy that I needed to us up. So good.
So delicious! I made it vegan by adding lots more veggies & chickpeas. I couldn’t stop eating this soup!
Love it!
I added cauliflower and lemon grass to mine. Felt like it was missing a vegetable.
I also cut the amount of fish oil as I found it overwhelming the first time I made it.
My husband and I aren’t red curry fans so I just excluded that but it is phenomenal easy to make quick and a wonderful week night dinner when it’s cold out thanks for the recipes they’re always great
If you’re not a red curry fan don’t leave a review on a recipe where you leave out the main ingredient.
I thought the same thing!!! LOL That’s like saying you like chocolate milk, but I don’t like milk so I’m just going to omit that.
Exceptional!
This is my go to comfort soup! So so good! I do add mushrooms and make the noodles separately (because they soak up so much soup, I just ladle soup over the noodles in the bowl) This is such an easy recipe, you cannot go wrong!
Good tip regarding the noodles!
This was excellent! I added one cup of frozen green peas toward the end to increase the veggies in the soup. It was perfect!
All I can say is – this soup is really good!
Sooo good…
Didn’t have fresh chicken breasts so used 2 cans of chicken breasts from Costco.
Have made twice and is a favorite.
Wow this was so delicious and will definitely make it again (maybe tomorrow ) I can now stop spending money on Laksa from my local and just make this instead!! Thank you for the brilliant recipe
Made this for our SOUPerbowl party, 1 pot with chicken the other with shrimp, and both were a HUGE HIT! So much flavor!