Rice Noodles in Curried Chicken Broth with Roasted Peanuts and Crispy Sesame Crackers

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    4 to 6

    bowls as a one-dish meal
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Southeast Asian Flavors: Adventures in Cooking the Foods of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia & Singapore

By Robert Danhi

Published 2008

  • About

This authentic recipe calls for making the chicken broth from a whole chicken, and using some of the meat for the noodles. To streamline the process, you may choose to buy the chicken broth and meat separately and skip step one. The shaved banana blossom’s astringent bite can be substituted by shaved green bananas or omitted completely without a detriment to the final flavor. Ground annatto seeds give the dish an attractive red hue without the heat of red chilies.

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