Chicken Meatball Thai Soup - Best Thai Soup Recipe

coconut milk

🥗Healthier: light coconut milk

💰Cheaper: cream

Light coconut milk reduces calories while maintaining creaminess.

fish sauce

🥗Healthier: soy sauce

💰Cheaper: salt

Soy sauce is a common substitute for fish sauce.

ground chicken

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: ground pork

Ground turkey is leaner, and ground pork is often cheaper.

Chop ginger, jalapeno, and garlic; use half for meatballs and half for soup base.

Combine ground chicken, half of the chopped ginger, jalapeno, garlic, fish sauce, salt, and pepper in a bowl to make meatballs.

Form mixture into large meatballs, about the size of a golf ball, yielding nine meatballs.

Heat oil in a pan and brown the meatballs for 5-8 minutes, turning to brown on all sides.

Remove meatballs and deglaze the pan with chicken stock, adding remaining ginger, jalapeno, salt, and pepper.

Add red curry paste and lemongrass, sauté for about a minute.

Stir in 2 cups of chicken stock, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and coconut milk solids; mix well.

Bring the mixture to a simmer and add the meatballs back in, cooking for about 5-7 minutes.

Squeeze juice from a whole lime into the soup before serving.

Serve the soup with meatballs, garnished with cilantro leaves and a lime wedge.

Cooking Techniques

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