Thai Curry Soup

• Pour water in alarge potand add 1-2 pinches of salt to it, bring it to a boil.
• Add the Pad Thai noodles.
• Cook until al dente, which is around 3 minutes.
• Drain well and rinse with cold water.
• Set the Pad Thai noodles aside.
• Heat olive oil in a saucepan keeping the flame at medium.
• Add the lemongrass, ginger, and garlic.
• Keep stirring until you can smell a sweet aroma from the oil. This should take nearly1 minute.
• Add in the curry paste.
• Cook for a further 30 seconds.
• Add half a cup of the chicken broth.
• Stir till the curry paste dissolves in the broth.
• Pour the rest of the chicken broth to the noodle mixture, adding the sugar and soy sauce as well.
• Bring it to boil. Turn the flame tomedium-low.
• Partially cover the saucepan and let it simmer for 20 minutes.
• Add the coconut milk, lime juice, cilantro, mushrooms, spinach, and shrimp while stirring the contents of the saucepan.
• Turn the heat to medium high and let it simmer for almost 5 minutes.
• Divide the Pad Thai noodles that you had set aside into equal amounts in 4 serving bowls.
• Pour the soup with a ladle on top of the noodles.
• Addsliced green onion to garnish.
• Serve while piping hot.

Trivia

Thai cuisine is a combination of four seasonings i.e. salty, sweet, sour and spicy. You get to experience all of these flavors in one single meal— Pad Thai, the traditional Thai delicacy, combines these elementary flavors to result in a riot of flavors. The dish is so popular that you’ll find numerous variants in restaurants all over the world!