Noodle broth Veg

This is the sort of Japanese style soup that you can make but the thing is to have really good really fresh stock. Apart from that it is as easy as it can get. In fact you could say that this is a pot noddle that will do you nothing but good.

You will need

200ml/7floz hot chicken or vegetable stock

1 small piece of root ginger

1 small red chilli

1 garlic clove

3 spring onion

1tbsp Fish sauce

A dash of sesame oil

1tbsp dark soy sauce

50g/1¾oz cooked chicken

50g/1¾oz rice noodles

A small bunch of coriander

Now for this soup you want those nice white rice noodles that will cook when the liquid of the stock is poured over them.

Take your garlic and slice it as thin as you can, then cut the ginger into julienne. Now slice the chilli as thin as you can and then chop your cooked chicken in to nice little cubes. Finally cut the spring onion diagonally across the stem nice and thin and chop the coriander.

Now add your stock to a pan and let it come to the boil. Once it has come to a boil add the ginger garlic and chilli and let them infuse with the stock.

Now in a large sided bowl place the rice noodles, spring onion, fish sauce, sesame oil,  dark soy, cooked chicken and some of the chopped coriander .

Now pour the boiling water over the ingredients in the bowl and let it stand. Let the noodles cook in the stock then just stir everything together and finally over the top add the rest of the chopped coriander.

It is simple, refreshing, good for you and easy to make, what more could you ask for.