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Coconut Chicken Soup With Turmeric

Here's how you make Coconut Chicken Soup With Turmeric
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  • Servings: 4
  • Prep: 10m
  • Cook: 10m
    • The following recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 2 tablespoons oil (sunflower oil or other neutral oil)
  • 400 ml chicken stock
  • 800 ml coconut milk (well shaken)
  • 300 grams dried rice noodles (flat noodles, soaked in boiling water for 5 minutes to soften)
  • 400 grams boneless skinless chicken breasts (halved horizontally and thickly sliced)
  • Tamarind purée, to serve
  • Fish sauce, to serve
  • OPTIONAL (TO SERVE)
  • Spring onion, thinly sliced coriander,
  • Chilli oil,
  • Bean sprouts
  • Crisp shallots
  • FOR SPICE PASTE
  • 2 tablespoons oil (sunflower oil)
  • 3 shallots, coarsely chopped (golden)
  • 30 grams ginger root (coarsely chopped)
  • 3 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
  • 4 chilies (long red coarsely chopped)
  • 1 lemongrass stalk (white part only and finely sliced)
  • 1.2 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
  • Ground turmeric (a pinch or 5 grams fresh turmeric, chopped)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: For spice paste, combine ingredients in a jug and blend with a hand-held blender until a smooth paste, adding a little more oil or water if necessary.

  • Step 2: Heat oil in a saucepan over high heat and add spice paste and stir until fragrant and starting to smell roasted (2-3 minutes) and then add stock and coconut milk, bring to the boil and season to taste with salt.

  • Step 3: Meanwhile, drain noodles and divide among bowls.

  • Step 4: Add chicken to soup, stir, then bring to a simmer and simmer until chicken is cooked through (5-6 minutes). Ladle soup over noodles and season with tamarind and fish sauce to taste and top with spring onion, coriander, chilli oil, bean sprouts and shallots (if using) to serve.

  • Step 5: TIP -Tamarind purée is available in jars from Asian grocers and select supermarkets and if it's unavailable, substitute lime juice.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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