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    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    Dec 19, 2022 by Helene Dsouza

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    Spicy hot, sweet, salty, sour Thai Noodle Soup with fresh raw nutrient-rich ingredients. Gorgeous one-pot quick and easy meal idea which you can adjust to your liking. Ready within 20 mins!
    Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Prep Time: 7 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 8 minutes minutes
    2 servings
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    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe
    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe with red curry paste is stuffed with whole ingredients.

    This soup brightens up, is filling, it's a one-pot wonder and full of gorgeous flavors.

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    • 🔪 How to make this Thai Noodle Soup?
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    This spicy soup is for you if you enjoy spicy flavorful coconut soups such as the Thai Tom Kha Gai soup or if you are into deep complex Asian food flavors.

    This Thai noodle soup is not a traditional dish but rather a Thai influenced soup which includes typical Thai flavors.

    Basically, the soup flavor profile resembles Thai curries prepared with Thai red curry paste.

    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    🍤 Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Ingredients

    This Spicy Thai noodle soup comes together really fast and includes fresh raw ingredients.

    Besides you can adjust the ingredients you add when it's time to enjoy the soup.

    Vegetarian or with meat/seafood

    The soup is Meatless, Vegetarian, Gluten-free, Lactose-free and can be turned Vegan if you use non-egg noodles and vegan fish sauce.

    You can also prepare this spicy Thai noodle soup with chicken or shrimps/prawns too.

    In that case, add the cut meat /seafood to the pot after having stir-fried the red curry paste and cook it then through.

    Stir Fry Pastes

    The Thai red curry paste is a major ingredient in this soup, as well as ginger and garlic finely chopped or in paste form.

    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    Liquids and Seasoning

    The coconut milk and broth make up the soup, while the fish sauce and brown sugar add more flavor depths and a Thai touch to the soup.

    Noodles

    Use Asian chow/low mein noodles in this soup, not Italian spaghetti, because they taste differently.

    I prefer the soup with egg noodles but you are free to try this soup with rice noodles too.

    Fresh Vegetables

    Fresh spring onions and cabbage are added fresh and raw to the bowl with the soup and noodles.

    You can also add sprouted mung beans, avocado or some chopped banana flowers if you feel adventurous.

    Garnish

    For the garnish, you can choose to add a combination of red chili flakes, cut green chilis, cilantro, crushed peanuts, cut green spring onion stalks and a drizzle of Lime Juice.

    All these ingredients turn the Thai noodle soup spicy with a touch of sweet, salty and sour.

    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    🔪 How to make this Thai Noodle Soup?

    The Thai Noodle Soup is a quick and easy One-Pot soup.

    That is because the base of the soup cooks quickly with the red curry paste and noodles.

    The Veggies are added raw into a soup bowl, which saves cooking time.

    That way you can add as much cut spring onion and cabbage as you like and because the fresh ingredients are raw, you are bound to have a nutrient-rich soup for dinner.

    Step 1

    Heat up the oil in a large deep pan or wok and stir cook the ginger and garlic with the red curry paste for a minute.

    Pour the coconut milk and broth into the pan and mix.

    prepare Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    Step 2

    Season your cooking soup with fish sauce and brown sugar and combine.

    Bring to a boil and place the uncooked noodles into the soup.

    cook Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    Cook your noodles soft as per packet instructions.

    bring to a boil Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    Step 3

    Keep your choice of fresh ingredients chopped ready.

    Place fresh ingredients with noodles into your bowl and top with soup and garnish.

    Serve hot.

    garnish in bowl Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    More Thai Recipe Ideas:

    • Thai mixed vegetable soup
    • Easy Chicken Pad Thai
    • Thai pineapple fried rice
    • Tom Yum Fish Soup by hot-thai-kitchen.com

    Dear Reader, how often do you prepare Asian inspired meal at home?

    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    📖 Recipe

    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe

    Spicy hot, sweet, salty, sour Thai Noodle Soup with fresh raw nutrient-rich ingredients. Gorgeous one-pot quick and easy meal idea which you can adjust to your liking. Ready within 20 mins!
    4.60 from 55 votes
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    Course: Soup
    Cuisine: Asian
    Prep Time: 7 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 8 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Servings: 2 servings
    Calories: 393kcal
    Recipe by: Helene Dsouza

    Ingredients

    For the Thai Noodle Soup:

    • 1 Tablespoon Oil
    • 1 Tablespoon Ginger + Garlic chopped or paste homemade recipe or store bought
    • 4 Tablespoon Thai Red Curry Paste
    • 1 can Coconut Milk
    • 4 cups Water mixed with concentrated Stock
    • 2 Tablespoons Fish Sauce *see Notes
    • 1 Teaspoon Brown Sugar
    • 5.30 ounces Lo Mein Noodles

    To Serve:

    • Green Cabbage chopped
    • Green Onions Spring Onions, sliced

    Garnish:

    • Lime Juice
    • Red Chili Pepper Flakes
    • Green Chili Pepper sliced
    • Peanuts crushed
    • Cilantro Fresh aka Coriander grees
    US - Metric

    Instructions

    • Heat up a pan and add the oil. Add in the ginger and garlic and stir-fry a little bit on a higher flame.
    • Next, add the red curry paste and stir-fry for 2 minutes on high heat.
    • Reduce heat, then pour in the coconut milk and follow suit with the broth.
    • Season with fish sauce and the brown sugar. Mix the contents.
    • Add the Noodles to the soup. Cook the noodles soft on medium heat.
    • Keep your serving bowl ready and add as much cabbage and white sliced spring onion bulb as you like. *see Note
    • Then add the cooked noodles over the raw veggies and pour the soup over everything.
    • Garnish with the lime juice, red chili flakes, fresh green chilis, crushed peanuts, fresh cilantro to your liking.
    • Serve and enjoy hot.

    Notes

    1. You can also add fresh avocado cut, sprouted lentils or even banana blossoms cut to the soup with the cabbage and spring onion.
    2. Adjust the garnish to your liking, If you don't like heat, reduce or omit the chili flakes and green chili.
    3. To make this dish vegan use a vegan fish sauce or omit fish sauce. Also use eggless noodles.

    Nutrition

    Nutrition Facts
    Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe
    Amount Per Serving
    Calories 393 Calories from Fat 90
    % Daily Value*
    Fat 10g15%
    Saturated Fat 1g5%
    Sodium 3524mg147%
    Potassium 51mg1%
    Carbohydrates 64g21%
    Fiber 2g8%
    Sugar 8g9%
    Protein 8g16%
    Vitamin A 5725IU115%
    Vitamin C 2.6mg3%
    Calcium 50mg5%
    Iron 0.9mg5%
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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    1. Katy says

      October 17, 2023 at 6:48 pm

      Do you have suggestion to substitute coconut milk?

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        October 18, 2023 at 12:32 pm

        You could just use a simple vegetable soup broth instead of coconut milk to make this soup. I don't think this would taste any god with other alternative nut milks such as almond milk, hence why I recommend using broth instead. Since there is already some broth in the recipe, switch the coconut mil quantity with broth and add that to the rest of the broth.

        Reply
    2. Rob says

      July 02, 2023 at 6:11 pm

      Hi there, glad to see this recipe online, this one’s a hard find for most people I think. One of my all-time favorite Thai soups. Actually, this soup comes from the Isan, Lao and southern China region. It’s very spicy in its traditional form and super delicious.
      it always blows me away when folks complain about Thai food being too spicy. It’s unfortunate for those that don’t have the palate to withstand the spice and heat. This region of Asia is bursting with foods that are amazingly flavorful, sweet, tangy, hot, sour and HOT all in one dish. I’m spoiled. My wife is from Isan,. I get to eat this about once a week.
      Thanks for putting this recipe online for folks to try. Remember, it’s Thai food it gets HOT!

      Reply
    3. Chris says

      February 27, 2023 at 1:28 am

      Is that a typo on the Sodium? Can't figure out which ingredient would make it so high...
      delicious recipe!

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        March 08, 2023 at 2:20 pm

        Please excuse the super late reply Chris, I had the flu. It's the fish sauce in the recipe, it's high in sodium in this nutrition database. You could skip this ingredient or decrease the quantity of fish sauce used, or you can also use a low sodium fish sauce if you can find one in stores. Furthermore, broth/stock is rich in sodium, but that I had already set as a low sodium ingredient in the nutrition calculation. When you use homemade broth, the sodium is less than the quantity of sodium in regular store-bought stock/broth. It's also relative easy to get low sodium broth in stores these days.

        Reply
    4. Penny says

      November 29, 2022 at 9:21 pm

      5 stars
      This is a terrific tasting soup and not too Spivey. Very fast to make so will make it again

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        November 30, 2022 at 11:41 am

        Glad you liked it, thanks for the feedback!

        Reply
    5. Tanja says

      June 15, 2022 at 7:40 am

      Kan je deze soep ook bewaren en als dat zo is hoe lang ongeveer?
      Ik wil het maken en meenemen namelijk voor 3 dagen.

      Mvg

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        June 15, 2022 at 3:46 pm

        Hi Tanja, yes, you can make the soup in advance and store it for up to 5 days in a closed container. But keep it in a cool place, such as a fridge. Add the fresh veggies ingredients just before serving, as directed in the recipe.

        Reply
    6. Nick says

      April 19, 2022 at 6:34 pm

      Hello... just wondering if you recommend regular or will low fat coconut milk work.

      Thank you.

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        April 19, 2022 at 6:53 pm

        Hi Nick, you can use either one. I use regular coconut milk, but low fat coconut milk will work great too.

        Reply
    7. Linnea says

      March 30, 2022 at 3:27 am

      1 star
      You should have a disclaimer for how hot this is! I couldn’t eat more than one bite,

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        March 30, 2022 at 3:02 pm

        Hi Linnea, the dish is called spicy Thai noodle soup, so yes it's spicy due to the Thai red paste used. If you use a homemade Thai red curry paste, you get to choose the chili variety added to the paste. Some chilies are less spicy hot. Yet, somebody who has been eating Asian food or spicy food, will say that this dish isn't spicy hot. So, it depends on each and every person's heat tolerance.

        Reply
    8. Amie says

      January 07, 2022 at 5:39 am

      Can you share the recipe for quick and easy Thai curry paste.. i am a strict Vegetarian.

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        January 07, 2022 at 10:56 am

        Hi Amie, here is the Thai red curry paste recipe. Just skip the shrimp paste (it's anyway optional) to make it vegetarian.

        Reply
    9. Nancy says

      October 20, 2021 at 6:37 pm

      Is it 1 tablespoon of ginger and 1 tablespoon of garlic? Or is it half and half to make 1 tablespoon?

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        October 21, 2021 at 6:04 pm

        It's 1 tbsp of both, ginger and garlic. Normally we follow a 2:1 ratio, 2 garlic and 1 ginger. Now you can still do it with a half half ratio.

        Reply
    10. Yvette says

      July 27, 2021 at 11:00 pm

      5 stars
      Delicious, awesome and easy to make. I added seafood to my pot. Great recipe

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        July 29, 2021 at 9:31 pm

        Awesome! Thanks for sharing Yvette, much appreciated!

        Reply
    11. Pansare says

      November 29, 2020 at 1:02 am

      4 stars
      honestly not bad, a little spicy ngl, u can prob cut down on the fish sauce so that it’s not too salty. i also added chicken and peas.👍🏼

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        November 29, 2020 at 3:45 pm

        cool thanks for sharing 🙂

        Reply
    12. Madi says

      September 06, 2020 at 1:12 am

      5 stars
      Very yummy! I only used half of the fish sauce it called for and I didn’t have a curry paste so I just added some sriracha for spice and it turned out great! I also added sweet corn which was a request from my husband to balance some of the spice!

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        September 06, 2020 at 2:05 pm

        Thanks for sharing Madi 🙂

        Reply
    13. john says

      August 16, 2020 at 7:55 pm

      5 stars
      Beautiful soup, so warming on a cold night. I also added some fresh chicken and star anise to the broth!!

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        August 17, 2020 at 11:39 pm

        Thanks for sharing John 🙂

        Reply
    14. Robin says

      February 21, 2020 at 8:25 pm

      5 stars
      This recipe is so easy and yummy! I prefer it over some I had prior in some restaurants. I added some ground spicy meat and bok choy instead of cabbage, wanted it more like a tan tan mien and that is what it tasted like. REALLY good!! I will be making again!!

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        February 22, 2020 at 6:47 am

        Hi Robin, Thanks for your feedback. You just inspired me to try that with ground meat and bok choy. Great idea!

        Reply
      • Merielle says

        December 26, 2020 at 1:28 pm

        Hello. For the 4 cups of water mixed with concentrated stock, does this mean 4 cups of water mixed with 1 bouillon cube?

        Reply
        • Helene Dsouza says

          December 26, 2020 at 3:20 pm

          yes a bouillon cube for 4 cups of water OR liquid concentrated stock mixed with water so that you have 4 cups at the end.

          Reply
    15. Tina says

      January 23, 2020 at 7:39 pm

      5 stars
      Hi! I made this soup and loved it. I just wanted to say that under the vegetarian/vegan section you may want to specify leaving out or finding an alternative to the fish sauce. The soup is delicious though! We added tofu to ours and shirataki noodles.

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        January 24, 2020 at 7:23 am

        Hi Tina, thanks for your feedback and for pointing out the missing veg option for fish sauce. I fixed that in the recipe post.

        Reply
    16. Nellie Tracy says

      September 01, 2018 at 6:41 am

      5 stars
      This recipe is so easy and I love the flavoring! Will definitely be making it again!

      Reply
      • Helene Dsouza says

        September 01, 2018 at 7:23 pm

        Thank you for your feedback Nellie! 🙂

        Reply
    17. Katherine Chase says

      August 31, 2018 at 11:53 pm

      5 stars
      Love this recipe! So fresh, bright, and full of flavor!

      Reply
    18. Rebecca Hubbell says

      August 29, 2018 at 8:36 pm

      I absolutely love Thai food and even more, I love Thai recipes I can easily make at home and this one was so tasty!

      Reply
    19. Nellie Tracy says

      August 29, 2018 at 8:16 pm

      5 stars
      As the weather begins to turn cold, I'm always on the lookout for delicious soup recipes! This might just become a new favorite!

      Reply

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