
It is no secret that I love noodles. I also adore seafood. I am a huge fan of coriander. And at this time of the year, in the cold British winter, I could survive on soups... The other day I had in mind a very specific
A few days later I decided to be extremely organised (for me) and wrote down how I would go about achieving the flavour I wanted with the Thermomix. The result was better than I anticipated and it proved one thing, even when I have it all written down and quite clear in my head: I still can't follow a recipe to save my life.
The result was absolutely delicious and the colours just amazing.
This recipe uses prawns but I bet it would be just as gorgeous with salmon, white fish or even chicken. But also without any seafood or meat additions at all as the flavour is lovely and strong.
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Thermomix Thai prawn noodle soup
Ready in about 25 minutes
Ingredients
3 cm piece of fresh ginger (more or less)
1 red chilli, deseeded (unless you like it really really hot)
1 stalk of lemongrass (here is another recipe that uses lemongrass, a green curry)
2 garlic cloves
1 handful fresh coriander
5 g olive oil
¼ teaspoon turmeric (that is one quarter)
120 g cold water
1 teaspoon vegetable stock powder (I just used the usual Bouillon one I have in the cupboard, one day I will get round to doing Thermie stock) or my vegetable stock paste concentrate
100 g rice noodles, I used fresh (that's all I had, you may need to add more if you want a thicker soup)
400 g tin of coconut milk
Half a lime
2 handfuls of raw peeled king prawns (you can used previously cooked prawns if you can't find raw)
1 teaspoon fish sauce
Method
1. Place the ginger, chilli, lemongrass, garlic and coriander in the Thermomix bowl and chop: 10 seconds, speed 7.
2. Use a spatula to lower down any bits that may have climbed up the walls of the bowl. Add the 5 g olive oil and chop another 5 seconds, speed 7.
3. Add the one quarter teaspoon of turmeric and about 120 g cold water and the teaspoon of vegetable stock: 7 minutes, Varoma, speed 1.
4. If you are not using fresh noodles and they need preparing, this is the moment to do it, follow packet instructions.
5. Add the coconut milk then fill the tin with a bit of water, swirl it around to make sure you catch all the milk then fill it up and pour enough water in the bowl to cover the whole blade unit (including the top): 7 minutes, Varoma, speed 1. While it's doing that, juice the half lime into the measuring cup, this way any bits that shoot away will fall in the lid and go down anyway, empty it into the bowl while the Thermomix is running.
6. Add the prawns and fish sauce (I had planned on adding the noodles here too but I forgot): 3 minutes, Varoma, reverse, soft speed.
7. Add the noodles: 3 minutes, Varoma, reverse, soft speed.
Chris says
This looks delicious! I must try this!