One-Pot Golden Chicken Curry Soup (2024)

Packed with anti-inflammatory spices and feel good ingredients like fresh veggies and quinoa, this flavorful chicken curry soup is nourishing, comforting, and cozy.

This healing chicken curry soup recipe is a hearty twist on our famous coconut curry soup. Both curry soups have a flavorful broth and feature plenty of wholesome ingredients, and today’s version also includes chicken and quinoa for a double dose of protein.

Made in one pot on the stove, add this chicken curry soup recipe to the menu whenever you feel a cold coming on. It’s soul soothing and brightens any sick day.

What You Need for Chicken Curry Soup

This coconut chicken curry soup recipe is nourishing and hearty with sustenance, incredible flavor, and many anti-inflammatory benefits. Here’s an overview of what you need:

• Chicken + Quinoa: For protein, we use a combination of boneless, skinless chicken breasts and quinoa in this soup. And, it’s all cooked in one pot for easy prep and clean up!
• Sweet Potatoes + Carrots: Add heartiness, beautiful color, and flavor.
• Onion + Green Pepper: Both add a savory yet sweet flavor.
• Coconut Milk + Broth: Full-fat coconut milk and chicken broth make up the liquid base of this soup recipe. Coconut milk adds creaminess and chicken broth adds lightness.

For Flavor

The combination of these spices and ingredients is what sets this curry soup apart from the rest:

• Green Curry Paste: It wouldn’t be curry soup without curry paste. We love using Thai green curry paste in coconut curry chicken and green curry chicken meatballs, too.
• Garlic Chili Sauce + Sriracha: Adds flavor and welcome spice.
• Turmeric: This superfood is anti-inflammatory and loaded with antioxidants (and why we use an entire teaspoon!).
• Ginger: Ginger soothes the stomach. A little goes a long way.
• Lemongrass: Fresh lemongrass adds flavor and is such a soothing ingredient.
• Cilantro + Lime Juice: Add fresh flavor.

Chicken Curry Soup Variations

We encourage you to customize all of our recipes to your taste preferences, but this soup, especially. It’s supposed to be a comforting, healing soup for YOU! A few ideas for chicken curry soup substitutions:

Protein: Use boneless, skinless chicken thighs instead of chicken breasts. Just note the meat won’t be as lean.

Quinoa: Instead of quinoa, add already cooked rice or farro to the soup before serving. It won’t be a one-pot meal, but still delicious.

Broth: Use whatever you have on hand! Veggie broth or even bone broth are wonderful additions to this recipe.

Spice: For a non-spicy curry soup, omit the garlic chili sauce and sriracha.

Storage

This is such a great recipe to make ahead and enjoy all week long. Like all soup recipes, the flavors intensify the longer the soup sits. Store leftover soup in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

Freezing Chicken Curry Soup

Make a batch of this healing chicken curry soup in the fall and freeze some for later in the winter. Your future self will thank you! Let the soup cool completely, transfer into freezer-safe containers, and freeze for up to 3 months. You can freeze it as one entire batch to serve a crowd, or in individual containers for easy meals. We share more about freezing soups in this how to freeze soup post.

To Thaw: Remove the container(s) from the freezer and let sit in the fridge overnight. Once thawed (or almost thawed), place contents into a large stockpot and turn heat to medium/high. Bring to a boil, turn off heat, and enjoy.

Serving Suggestions

This chicken curry soup is delicious with a sprinkle of fresh cilantro and a squeeze of lime juice. It’s hearty enough to enjoy as a standalone meal and totally hits the spot on sick days. For more feel good soups, try our slow cooker chicken noodle soup and vegetable minestrone soup.