Burmese Chicken-Coconut Soup (Ohn No Kyawswe)
4.5
Ingredients
- Prep
- 25 min
- Cook
- 40 min
- Total
- 65 min
Instructions
- 1 Place 1/2 chopped onion, ginger, garlic, and 1/4 cup water into a blender and purée until smooth. Soak rice noodles in a bowl of lukewarm water for about 30 minutes.
- 2 Season chicken lightly with salt and black pepper. Set aside. Whisk 1 cup of chicken broth into chickpea flour.
- 3 Heat vegetable oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook, stirring frequently, until lightly browned. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
- 4 Reduce heat to medium and add 1 1/2 sliced onions to the pan. Cook until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low and continue cooking until onion is dark brown, 15 to 20 minutes more. Stir in paprika, turmeric, and cayenne pepper.
- 5 Combine chicken and accumulated juices, browned onions, onion-ginger purée, and the remaining 2 cups of chicken broth in a medium stockpot. Add chickpea flour-broth mixture, stirring quickly so flour doesn't clump.
- 6 Bring the pot to a boil; reduce the heat to low and simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
- 7 Stir in coconut milk and cook until just heated through. Divide rice noodles among 5 large soup bowls. Ladle soup over rice noodles and garnish with eggs, cilantro, fried noodles, green onion, fish sauce, curry powder, and lemon wedges.
By Bryan Correia