Recipes

Soups

Chicken Soup with Bok Choy

A quick and easy soup that only takes 10 minutes to cook and has the added bonus of being low fat.

Cooking time: 10 minutes
Serves 4
Degree of difficulty: easy

Chinese Noodle Soup

Fast and easy this soup is a meal in a bowl. Use purchased liquid stock rather than powdered stock for the best flavour.

Cooking time: 10 minutes
Degree of difficulty: easy
Serves: 4

Combination short and long soup

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Try this combination of 3 meats for a tasty chinese soup.

Dan Dan Noodles

More of a noodle dish really than a soup this recipe gets its name from the bamboo poles (dan dan) that workers in central China use as they carry loads off the boats on the Yangtze River. It’s made with pork mince and this version features Changs egg noodles. Changs egg noodles are made the age-old way by rolling and folding the dough many times, the noodles have a firm and silky texture.

Spicy Prawn Laksa

It may seem like a little work to prepare the ingredients for this soup but you will be well rewarded with a wonderfully rich flavour.

Cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves: 6
Degree of difficulty: a little time and care needed

Thai Noodle Soup

This is a great soup to make when you are in a hurry. Most of the ingredients can be sourced straight from a tin.

Cooking time: 20mins
Serves 4 –6
Degree of difficulty: Easy

Vietnamese Beef and Rice Noodle Soup (Pho)

This soup does use raw beef but it is so thinly sliced it cooks in the hot beef stock as it is served. Featuring Changs Rice Noodles (vermicelli) and Changs Bean Sprouts, spring onion, fresh mint and coriander it is both flavoursome and comforting.