Thai Chicken Curry Soup

Thai Chicken Curry Soup — EASY, ready in 30 minutes, HEALTHY, and loaded with FLAVOR!! The sweet potatoes, carrots, red peppers, chicken, spinach, cilantro, and coconut milk broth combine to form an AMAZING soup!!

Best Thai Red Curry Soup

This chicken and sweet potato curry soup is a brothier mashup of Sweet Potato and Chickpea Coconut Curry and this Thai Chicken Coconut Curry. If you’re into Thai recipes, give them all a whirl.

There’s sweet Vidalia onion, carrots, red pepper, sweet potatoes, and chicken that cook in a mixture of creamy coconut milk and chicken broth that’s spiced with garlic, ginger, coriander, and Thai red curry paste.

After the soup simmers and the sweet potatoes are tender, add fresh spinach, cilantro, and lime juice for a pop of freshness.

The Thai curry chicken soup is savory, just salty enough, there’s natural sweetness from the sweet Vidalia onions, carrots, red pepper, and coconut milk. There’s perfect acid balance from lime juice and a very gentle heat from the ginger and Thai red curry paste. All the bases are covered!

Thai Chicken Curry Soup Ingredients

To make this Thai red curry soup with chicken, you’ll need:

• Coconut oil
• Yellow onion
• Shredded carrots
• Red bell pepper
• Chicken breasts
• Garlic
• Ground ginger
• Ground coriander
• Thai red curry paste
• Sweet potatoes
• Coconut milk
• Chicken broth
• Spinach
• Fresh cilantro
• Lime juice

How to Make Thai Chicken Curry Soup

The Thai red curry soup comes together quickly and easily. Here’s an overview of the cooking process:

1. Sauté the veggies until slightly softened.
2. Add the chicken and cook until seared (it’s okay if it’s not fully cooked through at this point).
3. Add the garlic, ginger, coriander, and Thai red curry paste and cook until fragrant. 
4. Next, add in the sweet potatoes, coconut milk, broth, salt, and pepper and let the mixture simmer until the potatoes have softened. 
5. Stir in the remaining ingredients and let cook until the spinach has wilted. 

Tips for Making Thai Curry Soup with Chicken

Cooking the chicken: Note that when you initially add the diced chicken to the pot, you are NOT cooking it all the way through. You’re simply searing it (adds flavor!) and then it will finish cooking in the broth.

Extra protein: If desired, add garbanzo beans for some extra protein. At that point it’s very reminiscent of this Sweet Potato and Chickpea Coconut Curry, which is a personal favorite.

Taste before serving: Always taste your soups before serving them. If the soup seems at all weak in flavor or like it’s missing something, it’s likely lime juice or salt.

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4.57 from 48 votes

Thai Chicken Curry Soup

By Averie Sunshine

EASY, ready in 30 minutes, HEALTHY, and loaded with FLAVOR!! The sweet potatoes, carrots, red peppers, chicken, spinach, cilantro, and coconut milk broth combine to form an AMAZING soup!!

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes minutes

Servings: 8

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Ingredients  

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• ▢ 3 tablespoons coconut or olive oil
• ▢ 1 large sweet Vidalia or yellow onion, diced small
• ▢ 1 to 1 ½ cups shredded carrots
• ▢ 1 large red bell pepper, diced small
• ▢ 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breast, diced into bite-sized pieces
• ▢ 3 to 5 cloves garlic, finely minced or pressed
• ▢ 2 to 3 teaspoons ground ginger or 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, finely chopped
• ▢ 2 teaspoons ground coriander
• ▢ ¼ cup Thai red curry paste, or to taste (if you’re very sensitive to heat, add 1 tablespoon first and more later if desired)
• ▢ 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and diced into 1/2-inch pieces
• ▢ two 15-ounce cans coconut milk, I used lite; full-fat will deliver a richer/thicker result
• ▢ 32 ounces low-sodium chicken broth
• ▢ 2 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
• ▢ 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
• ▢ 3 cups fresh spinach leaves, about 3 heaping handfuls
• ▢ ¼ cup fresh cilantro, finely minced
• ▢ 1 to 2 tablespoons lime juice

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Instructions 

• To a large skillet, add the oil, onion, and sauté over medium-high heat until the onion begins to soften about 5 minutes; stir intermittently.
• Add the carrots, red pepper, chicken, and cook for for about 3 minutes or until vegetables begin to soften and chicken is seared (does not need to be cooked through); flip and stir often to ensure even cooking.
• Add the garlic, ginger, coriander, Thai red curry paste, and cook for about 1 minute, or until fragrant; stir frequently.
• Add the sweet potatoes, coconut milk, broth, salt, pepper, and stir to combine. Allow the mixture to gently boil for about 10 minutes, or until sweet potatoes are tender and done.
• Turn off the heat and add the spinach, cilantro, lime juice, and stir to combine. Stir for about 1 to 2 minutes or until the spinach has wilted.
• Taste and optionally add additional curry paste, salt, pepper, etc. to taste. Serve immediately.

Notes

• Soup will keep airtight in the fridge for up to 1 week.
• Adapted from Sweet Potato Chickpea Coconut Curry and Thai Chicken Coconut Curry.

Nutrition

Serving: 1, Calories: 438kcal, Carbohydrates: 26g, Protein: 26g, Fat: 28g, Saturated Fat: 22g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g, Cholesterol: 48mg, Sodium: 879mg, Fiber: 5g, Sugar: 7g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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