Thai
Kuay Tiew Nam Sai (Clear Pork Noodle Soup)
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Kuay Tiew Nam Sai (Clear Pork Noodle Soup) is Thai home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Blanch the pork bones for 5 minutes, drain and rinse, then simmer them with the water, the daikon in chunks, the cilantro root, 3 smashed garlic cloves and the white pepper for 1 hour, skimming the foam.
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Mince the remaining garlic and fry it slowly in the oil until golden, then keep the garlic and oil together in a bowl.
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Season the broth with the fish sauce, light soy sauce and sugar. Roll the ground pork into small balls and simmer them in the broth until they float, about 5 minutes, adding the sliced pork for the last minute.
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Soak the rice noodles until pliable, then blanch a portion at a time with a handful of bean sprouts in a strainer dipped into the boiling broth, about 30 seconds.
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Put the noodles and sprouts in bowls, add the pork and pork balls, spoon over a little garlic oil and ladle in the hot broth.
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Top with scallions and cilantro and let everyone season their own bowl at the table with chili flakes, sugar and fish sauce. On weekdays this is usually bought from a noodle stall; the home pot is a weekend cook.
Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kuay Tiew Nam Sai (Clear Pork Noodle Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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. Kuay Tiew Nam Sai (Clear Pork Noodle Soup) carries gluten, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Gaeng Som Pla (Thai Sour Curry with Fish and Vegetables) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Gaeng Som Pla (Thai Sour Curry with Fish and Vegetables) |
| Fish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| 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
- 600 kcal
- Protein
- 24 g
- Carbs
- 66 g
- Fat
- 25 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 5 g
- Sodium
- 1100 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Kuay Tiew Nam Sai (Clear Pork Noodle Soup) takes about 75 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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