Sluuuuuuurp. Slurp, slurp, slurp. Slurpidy slurp. Oh, hi!
Don’t mind me. I’m just slurping my way into 2012. I am wearing a bib though. It’s cool.
Did you make any resolutions for the new year? Me either. Resolutions freak me out. If I make them I get all panicked and think, “well, I better get busy resoluting something or else the boogie man will get me.” Yeah, no thanks.
But, I do set goals! Which you’re probably like, “uh, that’s the same thing.” AU CONTRAYAIRE, MON FRAYERE. Resolutions set me up for mega mama failure, whereas goals give me something to STRIVE FOR. Plus they give me the chance to wear neon pink body suits, matching leg warmers and 80s sweatbands more than I already do.
What? It’s a really timeless look, you guys.
One of my goals this wintertime is to slurp my face into a hundred billion soups. Even if it’s unseasonably warm where you’re from, with trees budding and birds singing and no signs of snow, KANSAS. (Are we going to die?)
Start with this soup. And I mean it. And you know what? Forget the bib. Just go for it. Stick your entire head into this soup and experience the glory of the new year miraculously unfold on your tongue. Then send me the video.
Slurp.
Slow Cooker Thai Chicken Noodle Soup:
What it took for 4:
* 3 frozen or thawed chicken breast halves
* 3 or 4 cloves garlic, minced
* 2 Tbs. freshly minced ginger
* 2 (13.5 oz) cans coconut milk
* 4 cups chicken stock
* 3 Tbs. soy sauce
* 4 oz thin rice noodles
* 2 red bell peppers, diced
* 2 cups fresh beans sprouts
* 2 jalapenos, finely sliced
* 2 limes
* cilantro for garnish
* coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
In a slow cooker, add the coconut milk, broth, garlic, ginger, chicken, soy sauce, a pinch of salt and freshly ground pepper. Cook on high for 3 hours.
Using tongs, remove chicken from pot and shred with two forks. Return to pot. Add the rice noodles, bell pepper and sprouts. Cook 30 more minutes. Taste and add more salt and pepper if needed.
Serve each bowl garnished with sliced jalapeno, a good handful of cilantro and some gigantic squirts of lime. Oh, man yes.
I love my slow cooker and I love soup! This looks so good, Bev! Good luck with your goals this year!
Looks gorgeous and sounds wonderful!
I am loving everything about this. Lime squeezed into soup rocks. Oh yeah, and coconut milk… I could drink myself silly w/ that stuff!
Perfect recipe for the new year!! YUM!
This is gorgeous! Anything with coconut and ginger is automatically amazing so this soup is total amazeballs…yup I just said that horrible, horrible word.
Yum Bev! I’ve made a similar soup before but never thought about doing a slow cooker version – so easy!
Happy New Year to you! Hope we get the chance to meet sometime this year. : )
What a great soup for winter! Love!
This. Is. Amazing. Love everything about it. And I love goals. We are on the same page with this.
looks delish! Have a great monday
Thai + soup = LoVe! You my friend and I are connected!!
I would take a bath in coconut milk. That is, if it didn’t cost 5 dollars a can here. *sniff sniff*
this is legit, bev. i now pronounce you honorary asian. great job!
Oooh it looks soooo good. I love my slow cooker with my whole heart…I think it if had this soup in it, I’d die of happiness.
Um, yes please!!!
holy. yum. Slow cooker… Thai… Lime… Cilantro… I love you.
I love Thai, I love my slow cooker, and I love everything about this dish! Looks lovely, Bev! I love goals, let’s accomplish some together & everyone else who wants to join!
I love soup!!! And I love you!
oh.my.soup.
Oh I bet the coconut milk in it is just lovely and makes great soup even better!
Well now the only vaguely Asian Chicken Noodle soup I made yesterday seems pathetic. I’m just going to play the sick card and next time I make soup it will be this glorious one.
This soup sounds lovely. Don’t you just love the slow cooker, toss it in and let cook and then enjoy. Happy New Year.
haha I love your take on resolutions. This year I decided I was just going to go small- brush my teeth twice a day and floss more. Anywho, I love that you did a Thai version of a classic, sounds delicious!
Mmmmm, I love thai anything! And coconut milk, another fave!
Oh my! Does that ever look good. I would be happy to slurp away.
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Looks delicious…..and needs to be on my menu next week.
Bev, how do you steal recipes out of my very head?! I love this, and I made a spicy thai soup today, sans slow cooker.
I’m gonna be all soup, all the time for a while so this version may make it’s way into my belly.
Gorgeous! And it looks soooooo tasty!!! I adore any soups made with coconut milk.
You know, I’m feeling this recipe was designed JUST FOR ME. I feel loved.
This has got to be the most delicious sounding recipe! Anything Thai is amazing. And slow cooker? Couldn’t be better !
Thanks for sharing !!
xo. A Southern Bee Diary
SOUNDS AH-MAY-ZING and the photo is stunning!
Any soup made with Coconut Milk is good for me! This recipe looks truly amazing and I love that it’s made in the slow cooker. Happy New Year!
it sounds pretty refreshing with the coconut milk, quite a great combination of flavors
So perfect and so easy! I’ve never used coconut milk in soup before but this definitely seems like the perfect way to start! *love*
This recipe looks scrumptious. What a delightful soup. Yum!
Wow! This looks delicious. I usually don’t like slow cooker recipes because they never taste “fresh” to me. This looks like one to try.
I just found your website and love it.
Oh, I love so many of these things! Soup, jalepenos, and coconut milk for starters. This would be a good one for me to try – mostly because I am super intimidated by fresh ginger – only because I have never used it. I need to try it – and overcome my ginger-fear!
Oh I love soups in the winter! Talk about cleansing after that mountain of holiday cookies! Totally diggin’ it.
This sounds AWESOME. One question, though, since it’s not 100% clear: do the rice noodles go in dry and soak up / soften in the broth, or do you soak them in hot water beforehand (or use fresh)? Kinda a critical thing to know.
Nope! You just drop them in dry, straight from the package and they cook in the broth!
Thanks, Bev! I appreciate the quick reply!
Happy New Year! Love your take on resolutions!
Check out that new bowl!! Yea, Pryde’s!!
Love this! Gorgeous photos, and I love any recipe that’s easy!
Wow! This is one of my favorite recipes ever. And I cook kind of a lot! I couldn’t find bean sprouts so I substituted baby bok choy and it was great. I just finished my second bowl with my super picky toddler daughters (who both liked it!) and I’m planning on a third bowl when my husband gets home from work. I’ve never had three servings of anything in my life! Too bad there won’t be leftovers!
This soup sounds amazing! Do you think anything wonky will happen to the coconut milk if I cook it on low for a longer time? Thanks!
Naaaw, it should be just fine on low!
Made this tonight and it was so easy and delicious and everyone in my family enjoyed it. Even my father went for seconds and we can’t even get him to touch anything remotely Thai usually! I’ll be making more of your recipes soon because they are so good and make cooking simple for anyone to do.
I made this soup last for dinner and it was absolutely DELICIOUS! Thanks for sharing it!
For a girl cooking out of a small kitchen in KC you have a real flair for Mexican, and just about everything else. Yummy,yummy.
i’m currently bed/house-bound after some surgery, but a firend is picking up the ingredients i don’t already have on hand, and we’re putting this together tomorrow night to throw in the crockpot on friday! i can’t wait to have some!
I made this last night and it was fantastic! A few alterations that I made:
1) I had to substitute pea shoots since the market was out of bean sprouts. Next time I might even try bok choi. 2) I didn’t read the instructions and tossed the jalapenos in with the broth and chicken. I liked the heat they gave. 3) Turned out I was out of rice noodles so I ladled the soup over white rice.
Those alterations are perfect! I want to eat it. Again.
Yummy!! I doubled it…even the peppers and paid and arm and a leg for them. Used 3 Cans of the milk, added some thin carrots, and some water chestnuts. Come to find out we didn’t have any soy sauce and it was just fine without…I added more salt. The lime so completes this soup! Thank You!
We make chicken noodle soup at least once a month all year round. Thanks for giving me a new option with some new flavors.
What do you think if I added rice instead of the noodles? Would you add rice at that 30 min mark? Or would you know if it be better to cook the rice separately?
Honestly, I think it might be best to cook the rice separately and then just pour the soup over the rice per serving! That way you have consistent texture going on with the rice, and nothing gets too gloppy. Or sloppy. Or whoppy.
Whoppy?
Let me know how it turns out!
Thanks! I’m planning on making it this weekend.
I made this last night for dinner and LOVED it! My boyfriend went back for seconds! The great big squeeze of lime juice on top made it even better. I did find that it made much more than just 4 servings though. It was more like 6-8 servings (even though I cut back on the chicken breast) so I’ve got lots left over. I think I’d only do a half recipe next time. Still…it’s a great dish…really different and smells SO good when it’s cooking. We came in the front door last night after our workout at the gym and were instantly met by a warm, coconut heaven
Yumm!!
I am trying this recipe tonight and AM PSYCHED!!! It’s so easy!!! Thanks! I’ll report back with the results!
xo
unsweetened or sweetened coconut milk? Thx!
To be honest, I don’t know! I just buy the cans and have never noticed if it says sweetened or unsweetened. My GUESS is unsweetened. But I could be totally wrong. I’ll find out though and let you know!
Just checked – unsweetened!
Great recipe! I made this for a cooking challenge with a chicken noodle soup theme. I loved this soup! Thank you!
Could you use light coconut milk or would that alter the taste?
Honestly, I’d go with regular. The light version is SO watery and has very little taste. You want that full on coconut knock you in the mouth flavor!
Thank You
This looks fabulous. I got all the ingredients to make a double batch for some friends that are coming for dinner tomorrow. I was thinking it might be nice not to have to shred the chicken while they are here. Do you think it would work to cut the raw chicken in bite size pieces when I put it in at the beginning- and if so would that change the 3 hour cooking time on high? Thanks!
Sure thing! If you want to cut up the chicken first, that’s fine. And it shouldn’t change the cooking time. Maybe check and taste it at the 2-hour mark to see what you think. Let me know how it turns out!
Very nice recipe, looks like it’ll be yummy, making this soup this weekend!!
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Oh you’re kidding! That is too cool. Thanks so much for letting me know!
Any idea of nutrition data? Trying to get an idea of calories per serving.
I actually don’t have the nutritional data. I do know there are tons of sites that can figure it for ya!
I am making this for dinner tonight and I just typed it into the recipe builder on Weight Watchers…based on it being 4 servings, it is 18 Points per serving. Too bad you can’t use Lite Coconut milk, because that took it down to 10.
I agree with your other comment though, because I had tried to make a different dish with lite coconut milk and it was watery and frustrating.
If we like it, (and I am so excited to make this) I might try one can of lite and one can of regular next time just to experiment a bit.
I made this today it smells and looks DELISH!!!
Oh my this looks and sounds amazing. I can’t wait to give this soup a try!
Weird…haha. Although, the soup looks delicious AND I love soups.
You really aim that much? Wow! Well then, here’s something that might help you:
http://www.gourmetrecipe.com/recipes/recipe-courses/soups
This would not reach that hundred billion but it will lessen it. Enjoy! ^_^
I made this last night for the first time and oh me OH MY did my husband and I loooove it! I especially loved that we could adjust the spicy according to how many jalapeño sliced each of us wanted in our bowls! So so tasty, this recipe is definitely going in the KEEP and repet box! Thanks so much!
I went out to get these things so it could simmer away while it snows tomorrow. Looking forward to the tasty treat!
Oh, this recipe is awesome! I substituted sliced mushrooms for the bell pepper but did everything else the same. The lime and cilantro at the end made it soooooooo good!
Looks like a great recipe! Is there any way to make this soup, if you don’t own a slow cooker?
Sure! Just cook the soup in a deep pot on a higher heat so the chicken cooks quicker. Hope this helps!
It did, thanks alot! I will try it out as soon as possible
Bev, this soup sounds great! I can’t wait to make it!
Oh heavens, just got done eating this…..soooooo sooooo soooo good and totally worth the splurge. I was a little nervous about having raw jalapenos in it, but the whole thing was a winner. I will definitely be making this again. The only things that i did differently is i thought the broth was in need of some spice, so i cut one of the jalapenos in half and put it in with the red peps, sprouts and noodles. DELICIOUS!!!
This looks so interesting – and is what introduced me to your amazing site! Making this today and will report back. Thanks so much!
this one is on my list to finally make this week!!…had to dig out the crock pot from storage
I will be adding mushrooms and a dab of asian chili garlic sauce. cant wait!!!!
Quick question: has anyone ever made this and had the coconut milk curdle?? It has happened to me earlier this week (though not my first time to make it), and I’m wondering if the milk was bad to begin with, or if I just cooked it too long. I’m currently trying it again for the second time (holding TIGHTLY to the instructions). I just do not want to be disappointed. This is so good!!
Well, finally got around to trying this recipe. It’s only been on my “must try” list forever
The house smells lovely! I substituted dark meat chicken as I find it adds more flavor (personally) and substituted a can of coconut cream for milk for a thicker consistency. Because I know I’m not going to be consuming this all in one sitting I opted to cook the noodles separately. As well, I blanched the peppers and sprouts and plan to add the noodles, peppers, and sprouts to the soup at the time of consumption. This way nothing gets overcooked or soggy.
Thanks for a great recipe! This was super easy to do and will definitely be something I make again and again.
-Y