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:
- Sauté the veggies until slightly softened.
- Add the chicken and cook until seared (it’s okay if it’s not fully cooked through at this point).
- Add the garlic, ginger, coriander, and Thai red curry paste and cook until fragrant.
- Next, add in the sweet potatoes, coconut milk, broth, salt, and pepper and let the mixture simmer until the potatoes have softened.
- 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.
FAQs
The Thai chicken curry soup is naturally gluten-free and if you want to make it vegan, simply omit the chicken.
I love the silkiness of the broth because there are two cans of coconut milk. I used lite, but for an even richer and more luxurious soup, use full-fat. I could sip on the broth all day long.
I used Thai red curry paste for its smooth and rich flavor profile. I don’t find the paste to be overly spicy as I used it in this recipe, but as a caveat, I adore spicy food.
I used about 1/4 cup curry paste, which some people may think sounds like a lot but there are also 32 ounces chicken broth, 30 ounces of coconut milk, a pound of chicken, two large sweet potatoes, carrots, red pepper, and spinach to flavor.
You can always start with less and add more to taste, if desired later.
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Thai Chicken Curry Soup
Ingredients
- 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
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
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Made this for lunch today. Used Panang Curry paste because it’s what I had on hand and used a 1/2 cup because I like it spicy! It tastes great!
Thanks for the 5 star review and I’m glad this was great and I love your love of spicy!
great
I add bamboo shoots and water chestnuts and mushrooms 🍄 😋!
I add bamboo shoots and water chestnuts and mushrooms 🍄 😋!
Thanks for the 5 star review and your additions sound perfect!
I absolutely love this dish. It is like a flavor explosion in your mouth! I am sooooo glad I found your website a few years ago. I originally stumbled upon it for your Brocolli Cheddar Soup, which everyone LOVES too!
I absolutely love this dish. It is like a flavor explosion in your mouth! I am sooooo glad I found your website a few years ago. I originally stumbled upon it for your Brocolli Cheddar Soup, which everyone LOVES too!
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad you found my site for the broccoli cheese soup but continued to stick around and that you love this soup too!
I am 72 years old and have never tasted any kind of curry. I copied two of your recipe and I will taste it. I have made some good dinners with your recipes. Keep them coming please.
Glad you are cooking at 72 and have been enjoying my recipes.
You must try very high quality curry paste in Thai recipes. It makes a big difference. Mae Anong and Maesri are two excellent brands.
You must try very high quality curry paste in Thai recipes. It makes a big difference. Mae Anong and Maesri are two excellent brands.
I made and loved it. Got to add the lime. It makes all difference in the taste.
I made and loved it. Got to add the lime. It makes all difference in the taste.
Glad you loved it and I think the lime is really critical too! Adds the final touch to it.
Does it freeze well?
Soups tend to freeze well in general but I haven’t personally tested this one so cannot say for sure.
Fantastic soup!! I know what you mean about the broth–sooo good! I am really enjoying your recipes with curry paste.
Thanks for the five star review and I’m glad you are enjoying all these curry paste recipes! And can relate to my comment about the broth :)
So good! It made a large amount and I have put some away to be frozen for another day. It says it keeps one week in the fridge but I have no room so hopefully it will taste just as good when defrosted.
Glad you enjoyed it and soups generally freeze quite well.
I love how this soup contains so many veggies!! :)
Me too :) It’s so good that way!
I love your Thai recipes! I have some homemade chicken stock in the freezer and would love to try this!
This was so good! Perfect for chilly weather and as long as you have homemade chicken stock, even better!