Description
Warm up fast with this Quick Spicy Shrimp Soup! Zesty lime, creamy coconut 🥥, fiery chili 🌶️ and tender shrimp 🦐—ready in 20 minutes. Perfect weeknight comfort with a kick!
Ingredients
– 400g shrimp, peeled and deveined 🦐
– 1 tbsp vegetable oil 🛢️
– 1 small onion, thinly sliced 🧅
– 3 cloves garlic, minced 🧄
– 1 tbsp fresh ginger, grated 🫚
– 1–2 red chilies, sliced 🌶️
– 1 stalk lemongrass, bruised and chopped 🌿
– 400ml coconut milk 🥥
– 500ml seafood or chicken stock 🍲
– 1 tbsp fish sauce 🐟
– 1 tbsp lime juice 🍋
– 1 tsp sugar 🧂
– Handful of rice noodles or steamed rice 🍜
– Fresh cilantro, chopped 🌿
– Spring onions, sliced 🧅
– Salt and black pepper to taste 🧂
Instructions
1 Heat the vegetable oil in a medium pot over medium heat.
2 Add the sliced onion and cook until translucent, about 3 minutes.
3 Stir in garlic, grated ginger and sliced chilies; cook 1 minute until fragrant.
4 Add chopped lemongrass and pour in the stock and coconut milk. Bring to a gentle simmer.
5 Season with fish sauce, lime juice and sugar. Taste and adjust salt/pepper as needed.
6 Add the shrimp and simmer 3–4 minutes until they turn pink and opaque.
7 If using rice noodles, add cooked noodles to bowls; otherwise serve over steamed rice.
8 Ladle soup over noodles or rice, garnish with cilantro and spring onions, and serve immediately.