Slightly Spicy (Vegan) Peanut Ramen Soup with Mushrooms and Veggies for Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammie) Sundays

The weekend after a long and crazy work week started off great, but Saturday afternoon had me running my cat, Max, to the emergency vet and spend a good part of the afternoon there as they worked to get his blood sugar stabilized. In the over six years he has been diabetic, he has never had dangerously low blood sugar and it was a scary and exhausting day for both of us. He is home today with a temporary monitoring system made for humans and I am monitoring him by the hour but thankfully it is done with a scanner and he is doing well. Anyway, I wasn't sure I was in the mood to make soup, but I had purchased the mushrooms and veggies and it's another quick and easy recipe--perfect for when you don't want to spend time in the kitchen.

The inspiration and the bones of this recipe came from this Vegan Spicy Thai Peanut Ramen from Rabbit and Wolves that I pinned a while back. I adapted the prep and ingredients a bit to suit my preferences and swapped out the green curry for red, the Thai chilies for Sriracha, and used three kinds of mushrooms, baby bok choy, red pepper and snow peas for the veggies. It was delicious.

Slightly Spicy (Vegan) Peanut Ramen Soup with Mushrooms and Veggies
Slightly Adapted from Rabbit and Wolves
(Serves About 4)

1 Tbsp coconut oil
3-4 garlic cloves, minced
2 tsp ginger, grated/crushed
1 Tbsp red curry paste
4 cups non-chicken low sodium veggie broth
1 red bell pepper, sliced
4 baby bok choy, coarsely chopped and stems and leaves divided
1/2 cup natural creamy peanut butter
1 can coconut milk
2 Tbsp low sodium soy sauce or tamari
2 Tbsp agave syrup or sweetener of choice
1 1/2 Tbsp Sriracha, or to taste
juice of 2 limes
3 cups mushrooms (I used a mix of cremini and oyster), sliced
1 1/2 cups snow peas, sliced into thirds
12 oz fresh or dried ramen noodles

To garnish: smoked or roasted peanuts, chopped if desired, enoki mushrooms, extra lime wedges

Heat the coconut oil in a large, heavy bottomed pot over medium high. Add the garlic and ginger and saute for about 2 minutes, then stir in the curry paste and cook an additional minute, reducing the heat slightly if needed. 

Add the broth, red bell pepper and stems of the baby bok choy and bring to a boil. Place the peanut butter into a small boil and add a ladle of the hot broth, stirring until smoothly combined. Add to the soup pot along with the coconut milk, tamari, agave, and Sriracha and bring to a simmer, cooking about 10 minutes until flavors meld and veggies are softened. Add lime juice, mushrooms, snow peas and noodles and simmer for 1 to 3 minutes--depending on whether you use dried or fresh noodles.

Taste and add additional seasoning or spice as needed. Ladle into bowls and top soup with peanut and enoki mushrooms. Serve with additional lime slices is desired. Enjoy!
   

Notes/Results: Like a bowl of good peanut noodles, this is a tasty and satisfying soup. I love the lime and peanutty broth with just enough spice. The veggies retain their texture well with the bok choy stems crisp and the mushrooms slightly chewy. This soup made me happy, it's quick and easy to make and tastes great. I would definitely make it again.

 Now let's have a look in the into the Souper Sundays kitchen.

Debra of Eliot's Eats shared Cold Udon Salad with Bok Choy and Cucumbers and said, "I was recently reading the benefits of bok choy in the June edition of EatingWell. The article was aptly named “You Rock, Bok.” Bok choy is listed second on the CDC’s list of forty-one super fruits and veggies. Bok is chockful of antioxidents that protect cells, improve immune function and block cancer forming cells. It’s also high in vitamin C. I love it raw but will start incorporating it in stir fries, too.

Thanks to Debra for joining me this week!

About Souper Sundays:

Souper Sundays (going since 2008) now has a format of a picture link each week where anyone interested can post their soups, salads, or sandwiches at any time during the week and I post a recap of the entries the following week.

(If you aren't familiar with Souper Sundays, you can read about of the origins of it here. 
If you would like to join in Souper (Soup, Salad, and Sammie) Sundays, I would love to have you! Here's how...

To join in this week's Souper Sunday's linkup with your soup, salad or sandwich:

• Link up your soup (stew, chili, soupy curries, etc. are fine), salad, or sandwich dish, (preferably one from the current week or month--but we'll take older posts too) on the picture link below and leave a comment on this post so I am sure not to miss you. Also please see below for what to do on your blog post that you link up to Souper Sundays in order to be included in the weekly round-up.

and 

On your entry post (on your blog):

• Mention Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammies) Sundays at Kahakai Kitchen and add a link back to this post. (Not to be a pain but it's polite and only fair to link back to events you link up at--so if you link a post up here without linking back to this post or my blog on your post, it will be removed.)
• You are welcome to add the Souper Sundays logo to your post and/or blog (completely optional).

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Have a happy, healthy week!