Quick Prawn Noodle Soup
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Preparation Time: 5 minutes | Cooking Time: 10 minutes | Freezable?: No
Quick and easy prawn noodle soup, packed with flavour and great if you’re short on time
- 85g/3oz thick rice noodles
- 500l/18fl oz hot chicken or vegetable stock
- 1 tsp fish sauce
- juice ½ lime
- 1 star anise
- pinch of sugar
- handful of small raw prawns
- finely chopped and deseeded red chilli to serve
- handful of mint and coriander leaves
- Boil the noodles (follow the pack instructions) until just cooked, then drain
- Put the stock, fish sauce, lime juice, star anise and sugar in a pan.
- Bring to the boil and add the noodles and prawns.
- Warm through, pour into a bowl. Top with chopped and deseeded red chilli and mint and coriander and mint if you have some and serve.
From the BBCs GoodFood Easy Student Dinners book – with lots of good practical recipes
Cooks Tip: Want to go Japanese? Swap the fish sauce, lime juice, star anise and sugar for a sachet of miso soup or 1 tablespoon of miso paste, a traditional Japanese seasoning made by fermenting soybeans with salt and a fungus known as kōji, and sometimes rice, barley, or other ingredients.
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