Thai Red Curry and Buckwheat Noodle Soup Recipe is a Great Way to Help Clear Your Sinus Congestion with a Delicious Curry

This noodle soup recipe is a great way to ease the suffering of sinus congestion at any time of year.  It is delicious even if you are not congested, it's just a good recipe.   It's full of flavor and whole food ingredients and is easily one of my favorite Thai dishes.   With the increased availability of whole grain noodles around the world as well as lite coconut milk, you can make it healthier than ever too.

Modifications

• For Spice Levels

As always, you can modify from our recipe to your heart's content.  A lot of people think Thai food and think spicy, not realizing that you can just leave out and add a little here and there and avoid almost all the spiciness.   You just ease off on the curry paste and add coconut milk to decrease spiciness or the opposite to add spiciness.

• Making It Healthier

We typically do the same things for all our recipes following the guidelines of shooting for less processed and more whole food ingredients.  For one, if you have the time you will want to make your own curry paste.

• Making your own paste is healthier

We have a recipe for homemade curry paste that I encourage you to try if you have time.  If not buying a paste from the store is okay.  You just have more control when you make everything from scratch.  Here is our homemade red curry recipe.

Homemade Thai Red Curry Paste

• Whole Grain Noodles

With an increasingly global market, it is easier and easier to get whole grain noodles.  We love buckwheat noodles, although they are Japanese, because of the color and whole grain feel.

• Fish balls/ protein

Fish balls are a really easy way to do the protein.  You can use whatever you like for the protein, tofu, fish fillets cut smaller, chicken, but we just wanted something fast.  Probably more processed than is necessary but fit our timeline for the night.

• Lite coconut milk

Lite coconut milk has less saturated fat, which is the Achilles heel of coconut milk.  Someone complained about our use of lite coconut milk.  Don't use lite coconut milk if you don't want to.  It's your body, I'm a big fan of freedom.  🙂

• Stevia for the sweetener

Typically, Thai recipes use palm sugar, and it has a wonderful flavor, but again this is a blog for healthier options and you can go your own way on any of these ingredients.  We were out of the lite coconut milk so we went full fat coconut milk and called it a cheat day.

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 package of buckwheat noodles
• 3 tbsp red curry paste
• 1 sliced king mushroom or 1 cup whatever type mushrooms
• 2 bell peppers sliced
• 20 oz. sliced canned bamboo shoots
•  28 oz. lite coconut milk
• 2 cups of water
• 16 oz. fish balls sliced or whatever protein you prefer
• 1 cup basil leaves
• 1.5 tbsp fish sauce
• 1 tsp stevia
• Thai peppers for garnish

Instructions:

For the noodles:

1. Cook per the instructions on the package and set aside

For the soup:

1. In a large wok, pan or skillet heat the oil on medium high.
2. Add the curry paste and stir-fry until fragrant.
3.  Add in the protein and stir fry for about a minute.
4.  Add ½ the coconut milk and stir together for about another minute.
5.  Add in the vegetables and other ingredients other than the coconut milk and stir in.
6.   Add the rest of the coconut milk and cook for a few more minutes and serve over the noodles!
7. Garnish with Thai peppers for color.

Printable Recipe Below

As always, at Healthy Thai Recipes, we always make everything as healthy as we can and you can adjust as needed.  If you have any dietary concerns when in doubt check it out with an appropriate professional.  Thanks for reading this far and please rate, comment and share if you want to help us keep modifying our way to a healthier future!

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