Thai chicken & noodle soup

Yield: 6 Servings

Ingredients:

1 lb Chicken breast fillets
2 Cloves garlic crushed
3 ts Ground cumin
1/2 ts Tumeric
6 c Water
2 ts Chicken stock powder
1 tb Sugar
1/2 ts Shrimp paste
3 ts Sambal oelek
1 Piece dried galangal
1 3/4 oz Rice vermicelli
1 c Bean sprouts
3 Lettuce leaves shredded
2 tb Chopped fresh coriander

Instructions:

* Soup can be prepared a day ahead. * Storage: Covered in Fridge. * Not suitable for freezing. * Microwave: Suitable. Method : Cut chicken into 2 cm slices. Combine garlic cumin and tumeric in pan stir over heat for about 1 minute or until fragrant. Add chicken water stock powder sugar paste sambal oelek and galangal to pan stir util combined. Bring to boil simmer uncovered for 10 minutes. Add vermicelli to pan simmer for 10 minutes. Just before serving stir in bean sprouts lettuce and coriander.