Northeast Indian

Vegetable Thukpa (Noodle Soup)

Name: Vegetable Thukpa (Noodle Soup)
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Northeast Indian
Ingredients: 8 oz wheat noodles; 1 cup cabbage, shredded; 1 carrot, julienned; 1 onion; 1 tsp ginger paste; 1 tsp garlic paste; 1 tbsp neutral oil; 4 cups vegetable broth; 1 tsp salt

Bandana Gogoi @bandana_ghy

Vegetable Thukpa (Noodle Soup) is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Medium Heart healthy Vegetarian Vegan Halal Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

8 oz wheat noodles
1 cup cabbage, shredded
1 carrot, julienned
1 onion
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tbsp neutral oil
4 cups vegetable broth
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Boil the noodles in salted water until just tender, then drain and set aside.
Heat the oil in a large pot and cook the sliced onion, ginger, and garlic until fragrant, about 3 minutes.
Add the cabbage and carrot and stir-fry briefly for a couple of minutes.
Pour in the vegetable broth and salt and bring to a simmer, cooking until the vegetables are tender, about 8 minutes.
Add the cooked noodles to the pot and simmer together for 2 minutes so they take on the broth's flavor.
Ladle hot into bowls; this simple one-bowl soup is everyday hill-family food, not a restaurant dish.

Watch how to cook Vegetable Thukpa (Noodle Soup)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Vegetable Thukpa (Noodle Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Akhuni Yam (Fermented Soybean with Yam and Mustard Greens)
  
  25 min
The protein alongside
- Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils)
  
  45 min
What it is eaten with
- Galho (One Pot Rice, Greens and Chicken Porridge)
  
  40 min

A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Vegetable Thukpa (Noodle Soup) carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Vegetable Thukpa (Noodle Soup)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Akhuni Yam (Fermented Soybean with Yam and Mustard Greens)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 270 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 46 g
Fat: 6 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 480 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Vegetable Thukpa (Noodle Soup) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.