This Slow Cooker Thai Chicken Soup is loaded with creamy coconut milk, peanut butter, red curry paste, chicken, and veggies: onion, carrots, bell pepper, mushrooms, and broccoli! PACKED with flavor and healthy deliciousness! Less than 250 calories per cup!
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time3 hourshrs
Total Time3 hourshrs10 minutesmins
Servings: 11cups
Calories: 239kcal
Ingredients
2 (14 oz) cans lite coconut milk
3cups chicken broth
1/2 cup peanut butterthe all-natural, runny kind no sugar or salt added
1(4 oz) jarred curry pastestart with 1/4 cup and add more to taste, I used the whole jar, but we like spice
2 tablespoons fish sauce
5tablespoonslow sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
4 cloves garlicminced or pressed
1 teaspoon ground ginger
½teaspoonred pepper flakesoptional, start without and add after cook time for more spice
1pound raw boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1yellow oniondiced
1cupdiagonally sliced carrots
1red bell peppersliced
1 (8 oz) packagesliced mushrooms
1head broccolicut into florets
saltto taste if necessary, I needed quite a bit of salt, but it will depend on your soy sauce and chicken broth
Whisk together coconut milk, broth, peanut butter, curry paste, fish sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, ginger, and red pepper flakes in greased crockpot.
Add in chicken breasts, onion, carrots, pepper, mushrooms, and broccoli.
Stir to combine.
Cover and cook on HIGH for 3-4 hours or LOW 6-8 hours.
Remove chicken and cut into chunks.
Stir back into soup.
Stir in lime juice.
Taste and re-season with salt, more curry paste, red pepper flakes, if necessary.
Serve over brown rice or noodles and garnish with cilantro and peanuts.