Creamy Thai Curry Red Lentil Soup|Recipe

Creamy Thai Curry Red Lentil Soup is comforting and full of spicy Thai flavors.

Full of nourishing ingredients including red lentils, sweet potatoes and coconut milk that will fill you up while keeping things healthy.

When it comes to soup, nothing beats a big bowl of creamy lentil soup.

Not only does it have the most heavenly smooth texture, but it actually fills you up!

How to do Thai curry red lentil soup

Creamy soups are pretty hard to screw up, and this one is oh-so-simple:

Sautee your onions.
Add garlic, ginger and red curry paste, then stir up for 1 or so minute. This helps bring out the flavors of the curry paste as well as helps it soften and mix in properly.
Add the rest of the veggies, the stock, some fish sauce, and lime juice. Simmer until everything is softened. This should take around 20 minutes.
Bust out your immersion blender (this is the one I have) and blend everything until it is creamy and dreamy.
Stir in the coconut milk some extra lime juice and salt. Adding some extra lime juice at the end really helps brighten the flavors of the soup!

How to store and serve this Thai soup

This Thai soup makes for the perfect lunch. Not only is it filling (thank you lentils for that protein!), but it actually gets better after sitting overnight. This makes it absolutely perfect for a meal prep lunch!
I love storing this soup in these meal mugs because you can reheat them right in the storage container. So convenient for packing soup in your lunch.
This curried lentil soup also freezes like a dream! I like these freezer jars for soup, and you can freeze it for up to 3 months…in fact, I’ve frozen it for even longer with no issues.
We serve this recipe with some crusty baguette but it is also great served with some soda crackers.

Tips for the BEST curry lentil soup

this is my favorite immersion blender
I love these meal mugs to bring my soup to work, and these containers to freeze it.
I have tested this soup with a bunch of different red curry pastes including Cock Brand and Thai Kitchen
Looking for more soup? Try this creamy Caribbean Sweet Potato Soup, this vegan Lemongrass Coconut Butternut Squash Soup or this Slow Cooker Potato, Corn & Jalapeno Soup

Creamy Thai Curry Red Lentil Soup Recipe

Course: Lunch
Cuisine: Thai
Calories: 148kcal
Servings: 6

Creamy Thai Curry Red Lentil Soup is comforting and full of spicy Thai flavors. Full of nourishing ingredients including red lentils, sweet potatoes and coconut milk that will fill you up while keeping things healthy.

Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 35 mins
Total Time 50 mins

Ingredients

es garlic sliced
1 tbsp ginger peeled & diced into small pieces
1 medium sweet potato {500g} peeled and diced into 1/2 inch cubes
2 medium carrots peeled and diced
1 tbsp Thai red curry paste favorite curry paste
3 cups stock {veggie or chicken}
3/4 cup dried red lentils
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp lime juice

After simmering:

1 can coconut milk
1/4 tsp salt {or more; to taste}
1 tsp lime juice
1 tsp fish sauce

Instructions

Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.
Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent and cooked through. and add the garlic and ginger, and cook for a minute.
Add the sweet potato, carrots, stock, lentils, fish sauce, and lime juice. Cover, bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 20 minutes until lentils and sweet potato are cooked through.
Using an immersion blender, puree the soup until smooth and creamy. Stir in the coconut milk. Add salt and additional lime juice and fish sauce to taste.
Add the curry paste and cook until onions/garlic/ginger are coated and you can smell the curry paste, 30 seconds-1minute.