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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Thai >> Thai

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan. | 2. Add the garlic and shrimp paste and fry gently over a medium heat for 1 minute. | 3. Meanwhile, lightly crush the lemon grass stalks with a rolling pin or the blade of a large knife. | 4. To make the soup add the lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves and chicken stock to the pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes. | 5. Meanwhile, drop the noodles into a pan of boiling water, remove from the heat and leave to soak for 4 minutes, before draining. | 6. To refine the soup, strain the stock through a fine sieve into a bowl, return to the pan and add the fish sauce, lime juice, red chilli and sugar. | 7. Simmer for 3 minutes. | 8. Add the egg noodles and spinach, or pak choi and simmer for a further 30 seconds. | 9. Finally, ladle into bowls, dividing the noodles equally between them and scatter over the cilantro leaves. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
sunflower oil	2	teaspoons		79.56	0.0	0.0	9.0
garlic clove	1		chopped	-	-	-	-
shrimp paste	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
lemongrass	2	stalks		-	-	-	-
kaffir lime leaf	2			-	-	-	-
chicken stock	1	quart		-	-	-	-
egg noodle	3	ounces		328.32	60.9358	12.1068	3.7962
thai fish sauce	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
lime	1		juice	-	-	-	-
red pepper hot	1/2		seeded chopped	-	-	-	-
brown sugar	1/2	teaspoon		5.7	1.4714	0.0018	0.0
spinach	2	ounces	cut	12.4738	2.2113	1.2474	0.1701
cilantro leaf				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.