Dumpling Noodle Soup is a delicious and quick recipe. Using store bought frozen dumplings and a flavorful simmering broth we use minimal effort to create this comforting soup. Adding a ton of vegetables we take this pork dumpling soup from eating out to eating in creating a homemade version to rival the best eat out dumpling noodle bowl.
🍜 Dumpling Noodle Soup
Recipes like the Soy Sauce Noodles, Tofu Noodle Stir Fry, Pesto Spaghetti and the Spaghetti with Alfredo Sauce are all vegetarian noodle or pasta recipes.
The Chicken Yaki Udon, Beef Yaki Udon, Shrimp Yakisoba and the Pork Mince Noodles allow us to add a variety of proteins to the mix be they chicken, beef, seafood or pork.
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🤍 Recipe Highlights
I have summarised everything that you will come to know and love (LOVE ❤) about this easy dumpling soup recipe in the points below:
- Quick and easy: this recipe will only take you about 15 minutes from start to finish. It is a great go to when you are short on time (busy weeknights) but hungry and wanting to eat.
- Simple ingredients: you can get everything you need to make the recipe from your local grocery store. They are year round available ingredients that will be easy to get your hands on.
- Frozen dumplings: using store bought frozen dumplings is the trick to making this soup and needing only minimal effort to do so! Plus you can choose your favorite dumplings be they pork, shrimp, chicken or vegetable.
- Taste and texture: with tender dumplings, instant noodles and a flavorful broth you can't go wrong. The whole family will be slurping through bowl and licking their lips as they go.
🥗 Dumpling Noodle Soup Ingredients
The photo below is to show you everything you need to make the pork dumpling noodle soup recipe. Please refer to the printable recipe card for specific ingredient measurements as well as detailed instructions.
As you can see the dumpling soup with noodles recipe calls for:
- Chilli oil: this is optional! As it is hot, quite hot 😂😂. It is a great way to garnish the final noodle bowls for serving.
- Soy sauce: used to enhance the soup base.
- Sesame oil: adds a touch of aroma to the savory broth.
- Mushrooms: I like to use Swiss brown mushrooms for this recipe. They have a great colour and robust chewy texture. All we need to do is slice them and add them to the hot pot.
- Pak choy: this is the leafy green Asian vegetable that you see above. We do cut a small amount off the base and then use both the leaves and the stems of the vegetable.
- Frozen dumplings: the key ingredient in the wonton noodle soup recipe! These can be any flavor that you like. The dumplings that you see in the photo above are frozen pork dumplings.
- Noodles: instant noodles, also known as ramen noodles without the seasoning are easy and quick!
- Green onions: (also known as spring onion). We use some of the firmer white and green parts in the soup and then slice the top darker green parts to top the soup with. You can discard the roots and top tips.
- Chicken stock: also known as chicken broth. This is the main liquid we start with when creating the easy homemade broth.
Tasty Tip: I like to provide you with a number of substitutions and variations giving you an array of options when making my recipes. If in doubt of any of the above ingredients, or wanting alternatives, read this section below before jumping into the instructions on how to make the recipe which come after that 😉👌.
😉 Substitutions and Variations
Here are my sub ins and outs that you might be thinking about trying as you read about this no fuss dumpling soup:
- Vegetables: I like to use pak choy in the soup, you can do the same or use bok choy or baby bok choy.
- Broth flavor: you can use vegetable broth in place of the chicken stock if you wish too.
- Stock options: in place of store bought prepared stock, you can use powdered stock and add this to water. On this note, I recommend powered stock for this recipe over stock cubes for its ability to dissolve quickly and thoroughly in the boiling water.
- Dumplings: for the dumplings you can use homemade wontons, chicken dumplings, pork or your favorite flavor.
- Noodles: you can use instant noodles (no seasoning packet), ramen noodles, egg noodles, rice noodles or your favorite noodles. Some types will take longer to cook than others. So if your noodle package indicates a long cook time, cook these in a separate pot, then drain them and add them in. This will ensure that you don't overcook the rest of the soup.
- Chilli: add some sliced fresh chilli if you want some spicy flavors in the mix. Or use chili crisp as a garnish.
- Additional garnish ideas: sesame seeds sprinkled over the top work for an alternate garnish to the spring onions.
- More protein: you can add a boiled egg to the dumpling noodle soup if you wish to when serving it.
👩🍳 How to Make Dumpling Noodle Soup
To make the dumpling noodle soup, we start by adding the liquids to the sauce pan. Pour in the chicken stock then add both the soy sauce and sesame oil. Once done, give this combination a stir to mix it together.
🍳 Instructions
- Add the chicken stock to a large pot (Photo 1)
- Then add the soy sauce (Photo 2)
- Add the sesame oil and bring the liquids to the boil (Photo 3)
- Then add the uncooked dumplings (Photo 4)
To make the dumpling noodle soup, we start by adding the liquids to the sauce pan. Pour in the chicken stock then add both the soy sauce and sesame oil. Once done, give this combination a stir to mix it together.
Ensure the temperature is on high heat and bring the liquids to the boil (this will take 6-8 minutes). Once the broth is boiling add the frozen dumplings.
- Slice the pak choy (Photo 5)
- Then slice the mushrooms (Photo 6)
- Slice the green onions (Photo 7)
- Add the noodles (Photo 8)
The dumplings need to cook for 5 minutes to start with and you can use this time to prepare the vegetables like you see in the photos above.
Simply slice the pak choy (I like to remove the stem), cut the mushrooms and slice the green onions.
Then add the noodles to the sauce pan, followed by the vegetables.
- Cook the noodles and vegetables for 2 minutes (Photo 9)
Let the noodles and vegetables cook for a further 2 minutes, giving them a stir as they cook. You can use this time to slice some of the green onions (green bits) to use as garnish.
- Slice green onions for garnish (Photo 10)
Then once the timer is up, turn the heat off, grab some bowls and get ready to portion and serve your soup!
🍽 What To Serve With Dumpling Soup
When it comes to serving your soup, you might like to add some sriracha sauce (hot chilli sauce), crispy chilli oil or hot chili oil. Both of these add a nice finishing touch to the soup and that extra touch of flavor.
Some sliced green onion over the top works well too and you can see what this will look like in the photo below.
👍 How to Guide
How to Store, Freeze and Reheat
Dumplings that have been cooked do not reheat very well. This is because in liquid they continue to expand and can get quite bloated.
For that reason and to have a fresh, hearty soup that tastes delicious, it is not recommend to store leftovers, freeze or reheat this soup.
💡 Tasty Tips
Here are my top tips and tricks that I want to share with you so that you master the recipe from the get go:
- After you have added both the soy sauce and sesame oil to the chicken broth, give the liquids a stir to get them mixing together nicely.
- When you add the dumplings to the chicken stock, the liquid will bubble and splash (be a bit careful to not get hot liquid on you). This is because the dumplings are frozen and the stocking is boiling hot.
- Serve the soup as soon as you have portioned it into the serving bowl.
- Want an appetizer? Try the Air Fryer Spring Rolls 😄👍.
- Looking for dessert? Try the Microwave Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding or the Apple Crumble Tartlets.
- Or is it simply that you love cooking with pork? Then you might also like the Slow Cooker French Onion Pork Chops, Thai Minced Pork, Honey Soy Pork Ribs, Roast Pork Shoulder, Pork Leg Roast or the Pork Mince Fried Rice.
🤓 Dumpling Noodle Soup FAQs
Yes, you can absolutely use frozen dumplings to make soup. Doing so allows you to get a steaming bowl of dumpling noodle soup on the table in less than 15 minutes. This saves the time consuming process of making your own dumplings from scratch.
You cook the dumplings from frozen in the soup liquid. Once they have cooked for a little while, you add the noodles and vegetables.
Dumplings are Chinese and Gyoza are Japanese.
Dumplings can either be boiled, steamed or fried.
😍 More Easy Dinner Recipes
If you have multiple recipes up your sleeve, then you will never be short of an idea or 2 when it comes to the main meal of the day! Here are some more easy recipes to make night times effortless!
- Pasta or more noodles: Fettuccine Alfredo With Tuna, Soy Sauce Noodles, Pork Mince Noodles, Scallop Linguine, Prawn Chow Mein.
- Other proteins: Mince Potato Bake, Savoury Mince Pasta, Savoury Mince Pies, Baked Chicken Drumsticks And Rice, Chicken And Rice Tray Bake, Tuna And Rice Casserole.
- More pork recipes: Air Fryer Pork Roast, Sticky Pork Rashers.
- Vegetarian options: Roasted Capsicum Pasta Sauce, Polenta Al Forno.
- Rice options: Scallop Fried Rice, Pork Mince Fried Rice, Easy Chorizo Fried Rice, Shrimp And Chicken Fried Rice, Lamb Fried Rice, Chorizo Fried Rice.
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Adrianne
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📖 Recipe
Dumpling Noodle Soup
Ingredients
- 8 cups/ 2 litres chicken stock (chicken broth)
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 6 swiss brown mushrooms
- 2 bunches pak choy
- 2 green onions (white bits) roots and tips trimmed, sliced into small pieces
- 8 frozen dumplings
- 2 packets noodles no seasoning
To serve
- green onions (green bits) finely sliced
Instructions
- Liquids: place a large sauce pan onto the stove top, turn the heat to high and add the chicken stock, soy sauce and sesame oil. Give these a stir to combine and then bring them to the boil.
- Frozen dumplings: once the liquids are boiling, add the frozen dumplings to the pan. Set the timer and let these cook for 5 minutes.
- Vegetables: use this time to slice the pak choy, mushrooms and green onions (white bits).
- Noodles: once the 5 minutes is up, add both the noodles and vegetables to the sauce pan. Set the timer and let these cook for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- To serve: once the time is up turn the heat off and portion the dumpling soup into bowls. Garnish with the sliced green onions and some hot chilli oil. Provide both soup spoons and chopsticks for serving.
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Notes
- Note 1 - Chicken stock: also known as chicken broth. This is the main liquid we need for the soup. You can use store bought chicken stock or use a powder to make your own. The powder is recommended over the stock cubes for its ability to dissolve rapidly and consistently in the liquid.
- Note 2 - Soy sauce: the primary liquid for the soup is chicken stock or chicken broth. We then use both soy sauce and sesame oil as a means to add a depth of flavor to the stock. It is regular, not dark soy sauce that we need .
- Note 3 : Sesame oil: aromatic and fragrant, this oil is a delightful ingredient to use across a wide variety of recipes. We only need a small amount of this and it does go a long way!
- Note 4 - Frozen dumplings: these can be any flavor that you like. The dumplings that you see in the photo above are frozen pork and chive flavor.
- Note 5 - Pak choy: this is the leafy green Asian vegetable that you see above. We do cut a small amount off the base and then use both the leaves and the stems of the vegetable.
- Note 6 - Mushrooms: I like to use Swiss brown mushrooms for this recipe. They have a great colour and robust chewy texture. All we need to do is slice them and add them to the hot pot.
- Note 7 - Green onions: we use some of the firmer white and green parts in the soup and then slice the top darker green parts to top the soup with. You can discard the roots and top tips.
- Note 8 - Noodles: instant noodles, also known as ramen noodles without the seasoning are easy and quick!
- Note 9 - Chilli oil: this is optional! As it is hot, quite hot 😂😂. It is a great way to garnish the final noodle bowls for serving.
Jennifer Ellison says
Love this easy soup. I have used beef dumplings for it too and they worked well.