Golden Vermicelli Noodle Soup

Enjoying a delicious bowl of Golden Vermicelli Noodle Soup is just like getting a warm hug from your mom. Filled to the brim with gluten free Thai rice vermicelli noodles snuggled in a bath of nourishing chicken bone broth, veggies, ginger and anti-inflammatory turmeric. Less than 15 minutes and dinner is ready!

Feel better fast with our healing soups. From our immune boosting chicken and rice soup to cozy chicken curry soup - it's just what you need to get through a long hard winter.

Warm Up with Golden Turmeric

Oh goodness! That dreaded ground hog has seen his shadow again - 6 more weeks of cold snowy weather. Don't worry because we have the easiest healing soup to warm you up from the inside out. Spices such as turmeric, ginger, garlic and black pepper are all warming spices in the 5 Energies in Food. This easy soup is essentially a pantry recipe. You probably have everything in your pantry right now to make it.

Pantry Ingredients

Vermicelli Rice Noodles - Super quick to prepare, are gluten-free and have this fun slurping quality that makes them irresistible. These noodles can be purchased in the Asian food section of the local grocery stores or even on Amazon. Feel free to substitute pad Thai noodles, ramen noodles, Chinese egg noodles or any noodles you desire. The only change will be the cooking time and the amount of broth added to cook the noodles.

Chicken Bone Broth - According to a 2017 study in the Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care, drinking bone broth may be a simple way to get anti-inflammatory amino acids into the body to help heal the gut. So, it has that going for it. You can also use low sodium chicken broth or even vegetable broth to keep this vermicelli noodle soup recipe vegan.

Spices and Aromatics

• turmeric
• ginger
• garlic
• shallots or onion
• black pepper

Fresh spices and aromatics are best but you can also used dried ground. Dried ground spices are more intense compared to fresh spices. We have included both measurements in the recipe card for your convenience.

Veggies + Other Additions

Add you favorite fresh or frozen veggies. We used baby bok choy. If you want to add more protein to the recipe consider adding sliced firm tofu and/or a stream of beaten egg. Like our spicy tomato glass noodle soup, adding a beaten egg only takes a minute or two.

LOW CARB option?

If you want to go low carb/keto then feel free to try exchanging the rice vermicelli noodles with the shirataki noodles or make your own zucchini zoodles. If we are doing the low carb thing, we love adding tofu to the soup. At the very end of the cooking process, we beat and egg and then drizzle to egg into the soup while it is simmering to give it extra protein and a thicker texture.

Gut Health: Post Holiday Recovery

Are you feeling completely drained, exhausted and not quite fitting into those skinny jeans after the holidays? We have seriously overindulged this Chinese New Year holiday on potstickers, sweet sticky rice new year cake and pan fried vegan radish cake.

Now, we need to recover and bring our bodies back into balance. Golden Vermicelli Noodle Soup is a gentle and relaxing way to get your body back to baseline. Sipping on chicken bone broth is warm and nourishing. After a month of abusing your body and your digestive system, a quick review of our spleen qi menu plan is just what you need.

Easy Substitutions

As you can see the additions, exchanges and substitutions are endless. We used bok choy as we had that veggie in our crisper.  This turmeric vegetable soup is also delicious with spinach, green onions and many other quick cooking green leafy veggies. Frozen veggies work great too.

Cozy Turmeric Recipes

The only item that is not substitutable is turmeric. We used ½ teaspoon of ground turmeric but you can also use 1 tablespoon of grated fresh turmeric.

Turmeric is a warming and aromatic spice with slight bitter undertones and is also used extensively in Southeast Asian and Middle-Eastern cuisines. If you like the healing effects of turmeric, you may enjoy our Easy Spiced Golden Milk , Thai Pumpkin Curry or our Turmeric Vegetable Medley 

My Kitchen is Yellow - HELP...!

The most important thing is to keep the turmeric off your hands, clothes and counter tops. Unless you want an unusual yellow tied dyed shirt, you should really take note to this warning.

If grating fresh turmeric, wear gloves or you will look like you're a 5 pack a day heavy smoker with nicotine stains on your fingertips. However, this beautiful yellow color is what makes this spice a colorful addition to your cooking.

If you do happen to get a little turmeric on your countertops or cutting board, a little bleach water will usually take the stain right out.

The Secret to Delicious Noodles

Rice vermicelli noodles expand when they cook and emit a little rice flour into the soup broth for a nice thick and rich consistency broth.

These Asian noodles always come in these packages with 2-4 bunches of noodles in a pack. As you are only going to use half a package to serve 4 people, be sure to separate the noodles over a large bowl or cutting board as the little noodles break off everywhere and make a huge mess.  Rice vermicelli noodles cook really fast in about 2 minutes and are gluten-free, egg free and lactose free.

Stay Warm and Well

Today we are having what they call a "monsoon". It is just more wind, rain and dampness. It is the perfect day for a hot steamy fragrant bowl of soothing and delicious Golden Vermicelli Noodle Soup with lots of warming spices.

This winter has been brutal with respiratory illnesses. So please take extra good care of yourselves. If you wake up in the middle of the night with a relentless cough and are fresh out of store bought cough medicine, be sure to try our Whiskey Honey and Lemon Cough syrup. It can tie you over until you can be seen in the clinic or get to the pharmacy.