Soups
Gut Friendly Thai Noodle Soup (Thai Inspired)
This Thai noodle soup recipe is bursting with delicious flavors, but it’s also really great for your gut health too! This recipe is comforting, and can be made in under 45 minutes for a hearty dish that’ll warm you up on a cold winter day.
Why you’ll love this Thai noodle soup:
- Comforting: This Thai noodle soup is the ultimate comfort food that is loaded with flavors
- Easy: Make this noodle soup in only 40-minutes. That’s it!
- Gut-Healthy: This noodle soup is so good for your gut with the benefits from the magical ingredients that we’ll talk more about below.
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Ingredients:
Lemongrass: Lemongrass not only smells and tastes great, but it also has some added benefits that support your digestive tract. It’s been known to help treat things such as the common stomachache, to digestive tract spasms, and can be used to kill germs.
Ginger: Ginger has always been known as a natural ingredient that helps with so many ailments. For starters, it helps with the gastrointestinal motility which is the rate that food exits the stomach and continues along the digestive process. Eating ginger encourages efficient digestion so food doesn’t sit and linger too long in your gut.
Other ways I support my gut health
Outside of using gut-healthy ingredients like ginger, and lemongrass in my cooking, I also love to take ION* Gut Support in my daily routine. ION* seals cells in the gut lining, helping to keep toxins out of your body and strengthening the terrain upon which your microbiome can diversify. In turn, this helps with things like immune function, digestion, mental clarity, and metabolism.
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On top of incorporating ION* into my regular, daily routine, some other ways I try to improve my gut health are by:
- Eating lots of veggies, legumes, beans, and fruit
- Eating fermented foods (like yogurt, tempeh, and miso)
- Eating prebiotic foods (like onions, bananas, and garlic)
- Adding whole grains into my diet
- Having a plant-forward diet
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How to make Thai noodle soup:
- To a large soup pot add 2 tbsp oil, heat to medium high and add yellow onion, ginger and minced garlic. Cook until fragrant, about 3-4 minutes.
- Stir in curry paste, turmeric and veg stock paste and cook and stir for 2-3 minutes until fragrant.
- Stir in zucchini, red pepper and lemongrass and cook 2 more minutes.
- Add in coconut milk, water, fish sauce, chickpeas and tamari. Bring to a boil and then turn to medium-low and simmer, 10-15 minutes, until peppers and zucchini are softened.
- While the soup is simmering, cook your noodles to al dente and set aside.
- To finish the soup, remove the lemongrass stalks and add salt and lime juice, taste and adjust seasoning further if needed
- Divide the noodles among the bowls and pour soup over, garnish with fresh basil and chopped green onions.
Expert Tips & FAQ:
What is the most popular Thai soup? Tom Yum soup is the most popular Thai soup. It is a traditional sour, salty and spicy flavor found in lots of Thai dishes.
What is the Thai version of pho? Boat noodle soup. Boat noodles both contain pork and beef they are each seasoned with a dark soy sauce and nam tok. Nam tok is cow or pig’s blood mixed with salt. Very much not vegetarian or vegan friendly. 😉
What gives Thai soup its flavor? Fish sauce, curry paste, tamari, and lime are usually where you’ll get that hit of flavor from.
Why is Thai soup so good? It’s really the perfect combination of the ingredients and flavors that make Thai soup so damn good. Simmering things like lemongrass, and ginger in broth really brings out the oils and flavors.
Is pho Thai or Vietnamese? Pho is a famous Vietnamese dish.
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Gut Friendly Thai Noodle Soup (Thai Inspired)
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 yellow onion
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 1/2 tbsp minced fresh ginger
- 2 tbsp red curry paste
- 1/2 tbsp dried turmeric
- 1 tbsp vegetable stock paste
- 1 small zucchini, chopped in half moons
- 1 yellow or red pepper, sliced thin
- 2 lemongrass stalks, hard outer layer removed, top and bottom of the stalks trimmed and then cut into thirds
- 1 can coconut milk
- 4 cups water
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 cup canned chickpeas
- 2 tbsp tamari
- 150-200 g rice noodles, cooked
- juice from one lime
- 1 tsp salt
- chopped green onion for garnish
- fresh basil leaves for garnish
Instructions
- To a large soup pot add 2 tbsp oil, heat to medium high and add yellow onion, ginger and minced garlic. Cook until fragrant, about 3-4 minutes.
- Stir in curry paste, turmeric and veg stock paste and cook and stir for 2-3 minutes until fragrant.
- Stir in zucchini, red pepper and lemongrass and cook 2 more minutes.
- Add in coconut milk, water, fish sauce, chickpeas and tamari. Bring to a boil and then turn to medium-low and simmer, 10-15 minutes, until peppers and zucchini are softened.
- While the soup is simmering, cook your noodles to al dente and set aside.
- To finish the soup, remove the lemongrass stalks and add salt and lime juice, taste and adjust seasoning further if needed
- Divide the noodles among the bowls and pour soup over, garnish with fresh basil and chopped green onions.
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Notes
- If you don’t have vegetable stock paste, you can skip it and use vegetable broth instead of water.
- If you like a spicier soup, add some chili flakes as a garnish to your soup bowl.
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