Thai-style chicken broth & soba noodles

Name: Thai-style chicken broth & soba noodles
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 4 spring onions (scallions), finely sliced; 1 lemongrass stalk; 5 cm/2 in piece of root ginger, peeled and finely sliced into matchstick-sized pieces; 2 kaffir lime leaves; 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar; 2 tbsp dried bonito flakes; 200 g/7 oz soba noodles; 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely sliced into rings; juice of ½ lime; 2 tbsp coriander (cilantro) leaves; 800 ml/28 fl oz/scant 3½ cups Chicken Stock; 2 skinless chicken breasts, finely sliced into strips; 2 tsp cornflour (cornstarch); 2 tbsp light soy sauce; 1 tbsp Thai fish sauce; 2 tbsp mirin

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

The Good Chicken Cookbook

By Marcus Bean

Published 2024

About

This recipe is a great example of a dish with stacks of flavour that is also really good for you. If you feel a cold coming on, you’ll soon be back fighting fit if you make yourself a steaming bowl of this powerful broth with its medicinal properties.

Ingredients

800 ml/28 fl oz/scant 3½ cups Chicken Stock
1

Asia
Thailand
South East Asia
Soup

Method

Bring the stock to the boil in a large saucepan over a high heat. Finely slice and mince the lower portion of the lemongrass stalk and put the top in the stock whole. Add the ginger, lime leaves, fish sauce, mirin, soy sauce, vinegar, chilli, lime juice and bonito flakes and stir well. Turn the heat down to low and simmer for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, bring a saucepan of water to the boil o