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Easiest and best Thai shrimp soup

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Soup
Cuisine Thai

Ingredients
  

  • 4-5 garlic cloves minced
  • 3 green onions whites and greens separated
  • 1 chopped yellow onion
  • 1 bell pepper
  • 2 lemon grass stocks see notes above
  • 2 tsp fresh minced ginger
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 1/2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 2 tbsp Thai red curry paste
  • 4 cups raw shrimp peeled, deveined, and tail off.
  • 5 cups vegetable stock
  • 1 can full fat coconut milk
  • 2 tbsp fresh lime juice
  • 3 tsp brown sugar
  • 8 oz rice noodles of choice
  • salt to taste
  • 1/4 cup fresh chopped basil
  • 1/2 cup fresh chopped cilantro

Instructions
 

  • Mince garlic and ginger, set aside. Chop green onions separating whites from greens. Chop 1 bell pepper or halves of two different ones if you want more color. Dice lemon grass set aside.
  • In a large soup pot sauté the onion, whites of green onion, peppers, lemongrass, garlic, and ginger in olive oil for 4 minutes.
  • Pour in fish sauce and red curry paste. Add shrimp and cook just until shrimp have turned from grey to pink.
  • Stir in vegetable stock, coconut milk, lime juice, and brown sugar.
  • Bring to boil and add in rice noodles. Cook for just under the packages' suggested boil time.
  • remove from heat. Throw in salt, green onion greens, basil and cilantro. By the time it is cool enough to serve the noodles will be fully cooked. Serve with a wedge of lime if desired.
Keyword coconut, curry, Shrimp, soup, thai