Gochujang and coconut noodle soup (vegan)
Gochujang and coconut noodle soup (vegan)

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, gochujang and coconut noodle soup (vegan). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Gochujang and coconut noodle soup (vegan) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Gochujang and coconut noodle soup (vegan) is something which I have loved my whole life.

This restaurant-style Asian soup is easy enough for any weeknight! Once meat is cooked, add gochujang and stir frequently to prevent burning. Add beef and chicken broths, chopped kimchi (or black vinegar if substituting), fish sauce, chilli powder, sesame seed oil, brown sugar and fish balls. Remove the pot from heat and mix in the coconut sugar and lime juice for the perfect amount of sweetness and acidity.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook gochujang and coconut noodle soup (vegan) using 38 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Gochujang and coconut noodle soup (vegan):
  1. Take For the Tofu
  2. Take 200 g roughly chopped tofu
  3. Get 2 red chilli's (or as many to your preference)
  4. Prepare 1 teaspoon chia seeds
  5. Prepare 2 desert poons olive oil (roughly)
  6. Prepare 1 desert spoon soy sauce
  7. Make ready 1 teaspoon oyster sauce
  8. Make ready 1 desert spoon shauxing cooking wine (roughly)
  9. Take The soup
  10. Get 1/2 of an onion sliced
  11. Make ready 1 red bell pepper sliced
  12. Take 1/2 handful green beans halved or in thirds depending on length
  13. Make ready 1/2 handful baby corn sliced
  14. Get 4 Pak choi leaves sliced
  15. Make ready 1 large tomato roughly chopped small
  16. Take 1/3 handful spring onions diagonally sliced (white side)
  17. Get 1 handful bean sprouts
  18. Get 1 heaped teaspoon of gochujang paste
  19. Take 5 kaffir lime leaves
  20. Prepare 2 desert spoons olive oil (roughly)
  21. Prepare 1 teaspoon ginger paste
  22. Take 1 teaspoon garlic paste
  23. Prepare 1 teaspoon chilli oil
  24. Take 1 teaspoon brown sugar
  25. Make ready 400 ml coconut milk
  26. Get 100 ml water (roughly)
  27. Prepare 1 teaspoon Safflower/1 pinch saffron (optional)
  28. Prepare Noodles
  29. Prepare How many noodles you feel you want for need
  30. Prepare I only had a little bit of some whole-wheat noodles
  31. Make ready Garnish (all optional and exchangeable)
  32. Get 1 lotus root per person
  33. Get Chilli flakes
  34. Make ready Chilli oil
  35. Get Basil
  36. Get Spring onions (the green side)
  37. Get Thinly sliced ginger
  38. Make ready Bean sprouts

My recipe uses a fish stock and veggies but you could use a different stock base or even just water as a base. The coconut curry soup itself isn't spicy, so feel free to add some Sriracha on top (make sure it's vegan because some have fish sauce) or what we did which was to add lots of my scotch bonnet pepper sauce into it. The way the carrot flavour of that hot sauce blends into this soup is truly fantastic. Easy Korean-inspired gochujang sauce that's vegan, gluten-free, naturally sweetened, and soy-free!

Instructions to make Gochujang and coconut noodle soup (vegan):
  1. (i forgot to take a picture of the tofu)
  2. In a pan (preferably a wok but I used a kadai as it was what I had clean on hand, anything would work really) heat up olive oil on high heat. Once oil is hot add the tofu. Fry it for about 5 minutes before adding chia seeds and chilli's (i only had green ones, but red would best). Fry for a further few minutes
  3. Deglaze the pan with shauxing cooking wine and then add the oyster sauce and soy sauce. Cook for a further few minutes and then put it in a bowl and save for later.
  4. In the same pan (you can quickly clean it a or leave with the tofu flavours, totally optional) add more olive oil and allow to heat up. Once hot add onions. Fry them until they get a bit of colour. Then add the peppers and cook for a further few minutes.
  5. Add your tomato's and allow to cook for a further 5 minutes, stirring as little as possible. During this, mix together your brown sugar, ginger paste, garlic paste, chilli oil, safflower/saffron and gochujang in a bowl.
  6. Then add in the green beans and small corn. Cook for another minute and add the pok choi and spring onion. Let it cook for another minute before adding in your mixed paste. Allow that to cook for a further minute.
  7. Now add the coconut milk and kaffir lime leaves. Mix and leave to simmer for 10 minutes.
  8. Finally, add the spinach. Allow to cook for a further minute before adding the pre-cooked tofu. (this is when I do the Noodles. Do it according to the packet)
  9. Serve with whatever you would like or using what i used and enjoy

The way the carrot flavour of that hot sauce blends into this soup is truly fantastic. Easy Korean-inspired gochujang sauce that's vegan, gluten-free, naturally sweetened, and soy-free! You can add a little bit of water to prevent gochujang and doenjang from burning. To make it vegan, simply omit the seafood/meat option. The addition of tofu and mushrooms will be great for a vegan stew.

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