Asian Vegetable Soup With Noodles

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 6 scallions, chopped
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 teaspoons ginger, minced
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 3 1/2 cups water
• 3 1/2 cups chicken broth
• 4 carrots, sliced diagonally
• 3/4 lb napa cabbage, shredded
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 lb bok choy, stalks halved lengthwise and cut crosswise into 1/2 in pieces
• 1 lemon, zest of
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/4 lb vermicelli
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sesame oil

Recipe

• 1 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).
• 2 add soy sauce, red pepper flades, water, and broth and bring to a boil.
• 3 add carrots and simmer for 5 minute.
• 4 stir in cabbage and salt and simmer for 5 minute.
• 5 add bod choy and lemon zest and simmer until bok choy starts to soften, about 5 minute.
• 6 stir in lemon zest.
• 7 meanwhile, in large pot of boiling salted water, cook vermicelli until just done, about 9 min; drain.
• 8 return noodles to the pot and toss with the sesame oil.
• 9 put some noodle in each of 4 bowls and ladle soup over the noodles.