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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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 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.
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.
🔪 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.
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 your noodles soft as per packet instructions.
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.
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?
📖 Recipe
Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe
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
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
- You can also add fresh avocado cut, sprouted lentils or even banana blossoms cut to the soup with the cabbage and spring onion.
- Adjust the garnish to your liking, If you don't like heat, reduce or omit the chili flakes and green chili.
- To make this dish vegan use a vegan fish sauce or omit fish sauce. Also use eggless noodles.
Do you have suggestion to substitute coconut milk?
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.
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!
Is that a typo on the Sodium? Can't figure out which ingredient would make it so high...
delicious recipe!
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.
This is a terrific tasting soup and not too Spivey. Very fast to make so will make it again
Glad you liked it, thanks for the feedback!
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
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.
Hello... just wondering if you recommend regular or will low fat coconut milk work.
Thank you.
Hi Nick, you can use either one. I use regular coconut milk, but low fat coconut milk will work great too.
You should have a disclaimer for how hot this is! I couldn’t eat more than one bite,
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.
Can you share the recipe for quick and easy Thai curry paste.. i am a strict Vegetarian.
Hi Amie, here is the Thai red curry paste recipe. Just skip the shrimp paste (it's anyway optional) to make it vegetarian.
Is it 1 tablespoon of ginger and 1 tablespoon of garlic? Or is it half and half to make 1 tablespoon?
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.
Delicious, awesome and easy to make. I added seafood to my pot. Great recipe
Awesome! Thanks for sharing Yvette, much appreciated!
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.👍🏼
cool thanks for sharing 🙂
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!
Thanks for sharing Madi 🙂
Beautiful soup, so warming on a cold night. I also added some fresh chicken and star anise to the broth!!
Thanks for sharing John 🙂
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!!
Hi Robin, Thanks for your feedback. You just inspired me to try that with ground meat and bok choy. Great idea!
Hello. For the 4 cups of water mixed with concentrated stock, does this mean 4 cups of water mixed with 1 bouillon cube?
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.
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.
Hi Tina, thanks for your feedback and for pointing out the missing veg option for fish sauce. I fixed that in the recipe post.
This recipe is so easy and I love the flavoring! Will definitely be making it again!
Thank you for your feedback Nellie! 🙂
Love this recipe! So fresh, bright, and full of flavor!
I absolutely love Thai food and even more, I love Thai recipes I can easily make at home and this one was so tasty!
As the weather begins to turn cold, I'm always on the lookout for delicious soup recipes! This might just become a new favorite!