Low-calorie lunch recipe for 2 people, takes only 8 mins; recipe has vegetable stock, root ginger, garlic clove, sugar, chicken, vegetable, noodle, spring onion and lime.
Easy noodle soup
Course: Low-calorie lunch
Servings
2
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 1 garlic clove, grated
- Vegetable Stock: 500ml low salt vegetable stock (from a cube is fine)
- Spring Onion: 2 spring onions, sliced, to serve
- Sugar: 2 tsp soy sauce and 2 tsp sugar
- Chicken: 85g leftover cooked chicken, shredded
- Lime: juice 1 lime
- Vegetable: handful mixed vegetables (try beansprouts, sweetcorn, sliced carrot and mangetout)
- Root Ginger: small piece fresh root ginger, grated
- Noodle: 150g pack straight-to-wok noodles (or use 85g/3oz dried, cooked according to pack instructions)
Directions
- Put stock, ginger, garlic, soy sauce and sugar in a saucepan, then heat. Simmer for 5 mins. Take off the heat, pour into a microwave-safe bowl, then cool. Throw in chicken and veg, cover, then chill for up to a day.
- When ready to eat, remove from fridge, then add the cooked noodles. Microwave on High for 2 mins, stir, then cook for 1 min more or until piping hot. Divide between two bowls or mugs, sprinkle with spring onions and add the lime juice.
