Chicken noodle soup.
Cold weather.
Grandma’s recipe.
Family traditions.
Whatever sickness ails ya.
It’s about as down home as it gets (next to mac ‘n cheese), and my traditional recipe for chicken noodle soup is so simple – it literally has less than 10 ingredients. It’s so comforting, so warm, so flavorful. But, this is not that recipe. No, no. This soup recipe is a play on chicken noodle soup. It’s got chicken, it’s got noodles, but traditionally American it is not.
Not to say that it is a bad thing. Not at all. This is a Thai inspired recipe that I scooped up from Healthy Green Kitchen.
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For this month’s Crazy Cooking Challenge (which is all about Chicken Noodle Soup), I bring you a Thai inspired version. The coconut milk gives it a velvety texture, the lime juice and tamarind sauce gives it a wonderful tangy flavor. It’s the kind of broth you really want to slurp.
Mis en Place:
I changed the recipe a bit, so please visit Healthy Green Kitchen for the original if you would like to try that version.
Adapted from Healthy Green Kitchen
Ingredients
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 4 cups water
- 1 thumb-sized chunk of fresh ginger, peeled
- 2 tablespoons tamarind sauce
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1 T brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3 medium carrots, peeled
- 1 red pepper, seeded and thinly sliced lengthwise
- green tops from 1 bunch of green onions/scallions, cut to approximately same length as carrots and peppers
- 12 oz. organic chicken breasts, sliced thin
- 1 can organic coconut milk
- handful of pad-thai style rice noodles
- cilantro and lime juice, for garnish
Directions
- In a medium pot on the stove, heat the stock, ginger, and fish sauce. Bring to a boil, cook for 10 minutes. Remove and discard the ginger.
- Add the carrots, peppers, green onion tops, coconut milk, salt, and brown sugar to the stock. Cook for 5 minutes, until the vegetables are tender. Add the chicken pieces and cook for another few minutes, until the chicken is tender and cooked through.
- 3. Add the rice noodles and cook according to directions until soft. When noodles are cooked through, portion the soup ingredients evenly into bowls. Top each portion with cilantro. Squeeze fresh lime over each bowl before serving.
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