Chinese Five Spice Chicken Noodle Soup

I am really excited about this Chicken Noodle Soup as this is my first ever post for the "Secret Recipe Club." How does this club work? This is a very large group of food bloggers who are each secretly assigned to another members blog every month. The last is to pick something from the assigned blog, cook, shoot, and blog about the recipe.

I was so excited to receive my first assignment. I was given the blog Eliot's Eats, which was very exciting as this was a completely new page to me. The writters of Eliot's Eats are a middle aged couple who love food, travel, and adventure. Debra, who works as an administrator at a public high school, writes the posts while her husband, who works in technology, provides lots of ideas and support.

You all know that I have a pretty big sweet tooth, so I tried so so hard to go by all the delicious sweets on Debras page to find a delicious savory dish. I managed to achieve this and I was rewarded with this wonderfully flavorful Chinese Five Spice Chicken Noodle Soup.

Don't forget to check out the original recipe too!

Chinese Five Spice Chicken Noodle Soup

Makes four generous servings.

220 g (8 oz) Pad Thai Noodles
6 Cups organic chicken stock
3 Spring onions (scallions), thinly sliced
2 Tbsp ginger
1 Tbsp Chinese 5 spice
3 Tbsp lime juice
1/4 Cup fish sauce
2 Tbsp honey
2 Cups shredded chicken

Toppings:

1 C slivered fresh basil, preferably Thai
1 lime, cut in wedges
1 jalapeño, thinly sliced 
Garlic chives

1. Soak and cook noodles according to package directions.

2. Combine the broth, shallots, ginger and five-spice powder in a large sauce pan and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes.

3. In a small bowl, combine the lime juice, fish sauce and honey.  Pour the sauce into the simmering broth and stir in the chicken to heat through. Add the noodles to the broth to heat for about 5 seconds.

4. Ladle the soup into bowls.  Garnish as desired with condiments.

Check out the other recipes from this months Secret Recipe Club at the links below

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