Receta Clean Eating Pad Thai Soup
I have had Pad Thai once in my life. I worked at a hotel restaurant running food for room service. The restaurant (and the hotel) were brand new and they were still testing out a few new dishes on a regular basis. When they did, the staff got to taste them, and one of them was Pad Thai.
I have never forgotten how good it was. The only reason I didn’t eat it there again was because they were charging an obscene amount for a plateful. I can tell you that hotel workers do not earn a lot of money. So the Pad Thai quickly became a distant memory, albeit a delicious one.
Recently, I ran across some brown rice pad thai noodles at Whole Foods. I couldn’t believe my luck! So I grabbed a box and went straight home and got to work. But I knew that Mini Chef wanted soup for dinner, so I had to compromise by making Pad Thai Soup. It was scrumptious!
I think it was a bit salty for Mini Chef’s palate, but my palate did just fine. It is a bit high in sodium, but there is really no way around that that I could find. I just balanced it out with my sodium intake for the rest of the day and did just fine. I’ll post photos of the noodle and fish sauce brands I found that were clean. See below the recipe.
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Clean Eating Pad Thai Soup
Ingredients:
- 1 package brown rice pad thai noodles, cooked separately to package directions
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 1 tbsp. garlic powder
- 1 tbsp. coconut aminos or low sodium soy sauce
- 1 tbsp. fish sauce
- 1 tbsp. fresh lime juice
- 2 mushrooms, sliced very thin (shiitake mushrooms are best)
- 5-8 drops pure liquid stevia (optional, but adds something nice to the flavor)
- 2 cups cooked chicken, shredded or cubed
- 1 cup unsalted peanuts
- 1 large green onion, greens only, thinly sliced
Directions:
Combine the broth, garlic powder, coconut aminos or soy sauce, fish sauce, lime juice, mushrooms and stevia (if using) in a medium to large soup pot and bring to a boil.
Once the mushrooms are soft and cooked, add the chicken and boil until it’s warmed through.
Just before removing the pot from the heat, stir in the peanuts and allow to boil for 30-60 seconds.
Ladle some cooked noodles into the bowl, then the soup and top with green onion.
Number of servings (yield): Approximately 8 cups
BRANDS USED:
Please note, I was not compensated to mention these brands. They were simply the items I found at the store and used.
Nutrition Information:
(Data is for 1 cup and does NOT include noodles. Data will vary by brand of noodle used.)
Please Note: Nutritional information estimated at MyFitnessPal.com. Data may not be accurate and is subject to the availability of specific foods in their database. Where one ingredient is not listed, substitutions must be used. Therefore, you should not refer to this data as being exact. It’s more of a ballpark figure. The Gracious Pantry does not take responsibility for the inadequacies of the nutrition calculator used. This data is provided as a courtesy and general reference only. It is not exact.