Ingredients
- 2 whole chickens
- 3-5 cans coconut milk
- 1-2 Tbsp red curry paste
- 2-3 small ginger root, minced
- 2-3 small galangal root, minced
- 2-3 Tbsp salt, to taste
- 1 handful dried Star Anise
- 2-3 dozen, or 2 cans quail eggs
- 3-4 cans bamboo shoots, chopped
- 3-4 cans straw mushrooms, chopped
- 1-2 lemongrass stalks, halved
- 6-10 packs Vermicelli rice noodles
- 2-3 bunches fresh mint, chopped
- 2-3 bunches fresh cilantro, chopped
- 6-8 limes, sliced into wedges
- 1 banana seed, chopped
- 1 Napa cabbage, chopped
- 1 bottle fish sauce, to taste
Servings: people
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Instructions
- Prepare and rinse chicken. Place chicken in a large stock pot with lemongrass, star anise, salt, minced ginger root, and minced galangal root. Cover with water so that all ingredients are completely submerged. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer to prepare chicken stock. Simmer for several hours.
- Once chicken is fully cooked and soft, separate it from the broth. Let chicken cool, then separate the meat from the bones.
- Prepare bamboo shoots and mushrooms by rinsing and chopping them. Add the vegetables to the soup. Reintroduce the chicken meat and bones as desired. Add quail eggs to the soup.
- Add cans of coconut milk to the soup. Take one cup of cooked broth and dissolve red curry paste into it. Add dissolved curry/broth mixture back into the soup base. Repeat this step to your desired spice level. Let soup simmer to fully incorporate curry and coconut milk for a short period of time, roughly 1-2 minutes, while stirring.
- In a separate pot, bring water to a boil. Add vermicelli rice noodles to boiled water and cook. Once noodles are ready, remove from pot and rinse in cold water. Prepare single serving sizes of the noodles in a strainer.
- To prepare herb garnish, rinse and chop mint and cilantro. Rinse and slice the banana seed and Napa cabbage in half. Slice both Napa cabbage and banana seed into small, edible bites suitable for garnish. Slice the limes into small wedges.
- To prepare a bowl, add 1-2 handfuls of vermicelli rice noodles, ladle on coconut curry soup, and garnish with herbs to taste. Serve warm with lime wedges. Add fish sauce to taste. Enjoy!
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