Thai chicken noodle soup
Even if you don’t have much chicken left over, you should still make this. A few shreds will be plenty. This is a very laissez-faire recipe: I happily use some leafy greens and a julienned spring onion along with a handful of beansprouts instead of tender-shoot stir-fry. Similarly, udon or soba noodles, spaghetti or linguine could be substituted for vermicelli.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 13 of 15 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 13 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Coconut | 1/2 cup shredded (40g) | 283 |
| Rice | 1 cup cooked (158g) white | 206 |
| Chicken | 100g cooked | 165 |
| Peanut | 1 oz (28g) | 161 |
| Vegetable | 1 tbsp (14g) | 120 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Asparagus | 6 spears (90g) | 27 |
| Lime | juice of 1 lime (44ml) | 11 |
| Soy Sauce | 1 tbsp (15ml) | 9 |
| Turmeric | 1 tsp ground (3g) | 9 |
| Spinach | 1 cup raw (30g) | 7 |
| Ginger | 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) | 2 |
| Chinese Chives | 1 tbsp (3g) | 1 |
| Tamarind | not in our table | 0 |
| Coriander | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 1 litre/1¾ pints chicken stock
- 150g/5oz thin rice noodles
- 200ml/7fl oz coconut milk
- 1 x 3-4cm/1-1½in piece fresh ginger
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 fresh long red chilli
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- 1 tsp ready-made tamarind
- 1 tsp soft brown sugar
- 2 tbsp lime
- approx. 150g/5oz leftover cooked chicken
- 250g/9oz tender-shoot stir-fry (a mixture of pak choi, bok choi, spindly asparagus, Chinese kale, peanut shoots and Chinese chives), or other assorted vegetables
- 2-3 tbsp chopped fresh coriander