Oriental Vegetable Noodle Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat; add all the vegetables, garlic and onion. Season with the salt, and cook until tender, about 6 minutes. Add the pasta and cook until slightly toasted and golden, about 2 minutes. Add broth, and bring to a boil over high heat. Cook, covered, until pasta is just tender, about 8 minutes.
• Stir in whatever herb suits you (or your young eater) and lemon juice. Season with pepper and additional salt, to taste. Fill thermos, pack in a lunch sack with crackers and cheese sticks and send off to school.

Steps:

• Place 1/2 cup of the vegetable stock in a Dutch oven or 3 1/2 - 5 qt saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Add onion, garlic, and gignger; simmer for 3 minutes.
• Stir in remaining stock and soy sauce.
• Cover pot and bring to a gentle boil.
• Add remaining ingredients.
• Test for doneness: noodles should be softened; vegetables should remain crisp/tender.
• Timing - about 8 minutes.
• Top each serving with one of the garnishes.
• VARIATIONS: - substitute 1 c cooked brown rice for the buckwheat noodles peppers, chopped water chestnut, chopped jicama root, shredded spinach, chopped celery, or bamboo shoots.
• EGG THREADS:.
• In a small skillet, heat a little margarine.
• When it begins to bubble, add 1 egg beaten with a little cold water.
• Tilt the pan so the yolk mixture coats it in a thin layer, the thinner the better.
• When the egg is lightly cooked, turn it out onto a cutting board.
• Slice it into very thin strips with a sharp knife. (makes about 1/3 cup).

Steps:

• Mix soy sauce, mirin, 1 teaspoon of the sesame oil, garlic, ginger, sugar, vinegar, and chile paste in a small bowl.
• Heat the broth in a medium saucepan. Add the soy sauce mixture, the chicken, and the vegetables and bring to a boil. Simmer for two minutes or until chicken is cooked through. Add the remaining 1 teaspoon sesame oil. Taste and adjust seasonings.
• Pour over prepared Chinese noodles. Garnish with cilantro and scallions.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add noodles; cook until tender yet still firm to the bite, 1 to 2 minutes. Drain and divide among 4 large soup bowls.
• Combine vegetable stock, soy sauce, ginger, chile sauce, and garlic in a saucepan over medium heat; bring to a gentle simmer. Simmer until fragrant, about 5 minutes.
• Squeeze spinach to drain out excess moisture; coarsely chop. Add to stock with soybeans and red bell pepper; cook until heated through, about 1 minute. Ladle over noodles.

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat vegetable oil over moderately low heat; add scallions, garlic, and ginger and cook, stirring occasionally until fragrant (about 1 min).
• Add soy sauce, red pepper flades, water, and broth and bring to a boil.
• Add carrots and simmer for 5 minute.
• Stir in cabbage and salt and simmer for 5 minute.
• Add bod choy and lemon zest and simmer until bok choy starts to soften, about 5 minute.
• Stir in lemon zest.
• Meanwhile, in large pot of boiling salted water, cook vermicelli until just done, about 9 min; drain.
• Return noodles to the pot and toss with the sesame oil.
• Put some noodle in each of 4 bowls and ladle soup over the noodles.