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Lao Khao Soi Recipe – Rice Noodle Soup with Minced Pork. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Lao Khao Soi Recipe – How to Make the Laotian Soup with a Ragu Bolognese Style Sauce

This Lao khao soi recipe makes a delicious filling Laotian soup with wide rice noodles and a rich, hearty sauce of pork mince, tomatoes and fermented soy beans that could best be described as a Southeast Asian style ragu Bolognese soup. Warning: this is seriously addictive.

This Lao khao soi recipe is one I’ve been perfecting for years, since we first tasted Lao khao soi on our first trip to Laos. After introducing us to ‘cat poo’ biscuits, our guide Bounmee pointed out a simple noodle joint in a dilapidated shed that he claimed made the best Lao khao soi in Luang Prabang, Laos.

As soon as our tour of Luang Prabang’s glittering pagodas ended, we made a beeline for the timber and corrugated iron shack on Manomai Road and the best Lao khao soi we’ve ever eaten. Admittedly at the time, it was the only Lao khao soi we’d ever eaten as we were new to the cuisine of Laos and Laotion cooking.

Lao Khao Soi Recipe – How to Make the Laotian Soup with a Ragu Bolognese Style Sauce

Up until we discovered Lao khao soi on our first trip to Laos, we’d only known and loved the Chiang Mai khao soi. We hadn’t yet made the connection between that and Myanmar’s ohn no kauk swe, both coconut milk-based curry noodle soups typically made with chicken and served with fried noodles on top.

That soup is likely to have travelled with the Han Chinese in the 19th century on their migration from Yunnan through Laos and Thailand to Burma, evolving at stops along the way. But the Luang Prabang khao soi broth is an entirely different soup altogether as you’ll see when you make my Lao khao soi recipe.

Lao Khao Soi Recipe – Rice Noodle Soup with Minced Pork. Copyright © 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Lao Khao Soi Recipe for the Laotian Rice Noodle Soup with a Spicy Relish of Minced Pork and Fermented Soy Bean

While distinctive, the food of Laos and Laotian cooking has been influenced by, and has in turn influenced the cuisines of its neighbours, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

The Laotian renditions of larb, the fiery minced salads, and som tam, the spicy papaya salads are similar to those found beyond its borders. Yet the closest cousins to Lao khao soi are the Szechuan dan dan noodles – without the numbing Sichuan peppercorns – and ragu Bolognese if it were served as a soup, only the Lao ‘ragu’ we sampled more closely resembles Thailand’s nam prik ong.

My Lao khao soi recipe makes that soup we fell in love with years ago – a bowl of wide rice noodles in a lovely pork broth to which the cook added a large dollop of a rich, red, ragu Bolognese like relish of minced pork, fermented soy beans, tomato, and chilli.

Lao Khao Soi Recipe – Rice Noodle Soup with Minced Pork. Copyright © 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

That cook in Luang Prabang provided us with a plate piled high with fresh greens – crispy long snake beans, aromatic mint, Thai basil, and Lao basil, which is more lemony than Thai, and lime halves – from which we could select our own garnishes. I recommend you do the same when serving this.

She also gave us a container of shrimp paste – I don’t think it’s needed as this is already packed with flavour – and urged us to use the array of condiments on the table, including dried chilli flakes, sugar, salt, pepper, chilli sauce, fish sauce, and so on.

Other than some additional chilli flakes, we encourage you to provide the full range of condiments for your guests, but we don’t really think that this Lao khao soi recipe needs anything extra. Let us know what you think.

Lao Khao Soi Recipe for a Rice Noodle Soup with Spicy Pork Mince

Lao Khao Soi Recipe – Rice Noodle Soup with Minced Pork. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Lao Khao Soi Recipe

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This Lao khao soi recipe makes a delicious filling Laotian soup with wide rice noodles and a rich, hearty sauce of pork mince, tomatoes and fermented soy beans that could best be described as a Southeast Asian style ragu Bolognese soup.
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 3 hours
Total Time: 3 hours 20 minutes
Course: Soup
Cuisine: Lao
Servings: 4 Servings
Calories: 3937kcal
Author: Terence Carter adapted from a recipe by Friends International

Ingredients

Pork Stock
  • 2 kg pork bones
  • 60 g ginger
  • 10 coriander roots
  • 300 g carrots chopped roughly
  • 200 g daikon chopped roughly
  • 2 medium onions halved
  • 2 celery stalks halved
  • 4 litre cold water
  • 3 tbsp fish sauce
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce
Khao Soi Sauce
  • 300 g minced pork around 20% fat
  • 3 tomatoes finely chopped
  • 10 garlic cloves finely chopped
  • 5 tbsp fermented soybean paste
  • 8 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp chilli powder
  • 1 tbsp chilli flakes
  • 8 spring onions thinly sliced
To Serve
  • 400 g wide rice noodles around 4-5mm wide
  • 200 g bean sprouts
  • Handful of coriander leaves roughly chopped
On the side
  • 8 snake beans cut into small pieces
  • A bunch of Watercress
  • Green birds-eye chillis
Condiments
  • Chilli powder
  • Chilli flakes
  • Sugar
  • Fish sauce
  • Lime wedges
  • Chilli paste
  • Black pepper

Instructions

The Pork Stock

  • Grill the ginger and onion until the skins are charred.
  • Place the pork bones in a pot and pour over boiling water. Place in a sink and run cold water over the pork.
  • Place the bones and cold water into a large stock pot and bring to a boil. Add the grilled onions, ginger, carrots, celery, daikon and coriander roots and simmer gently for at least 2 hours to build flavour in the stock.
  • Skim the stock with a ladle frequently and discard the accumulated protein from the stock.
  • Strain the stock, add the fish sauce and soy sauce, season with salt to taste and put the stock back over low heat.

The Khao Soi Sauce

  • Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over medium heat, add the garlic and fry until fragrant – do not burn the garlic as it will be bitter. Add the fermented soybean paste, chilli powder and flakes and fry until fragrant, approximately 2 minutes. Add the chopped tomatoes and fry over medium heat for another 4-5 minutes.
  • Mix in the pork mince and fry for another 5 minutes or until the meat is well cooked. The final result should resemble a thick Bolognese sauce. Keep the sauce warm until ready to plate. Add half the spring onions to the mix.

To Serve

  • Cook the noodles per packet instructions. As a guide, these wide noodles take around 7 minutes to cook. Start testing for doneness around 5 minutes.
  • Place the noodles in the individual serving bowls. Ladle over the stock. This will help the noodles not to stick.
  • Spoon over the sauce and add the bean sprouts and the remaining spring onions. Top with coriander.
  • Serve with the remaining condiments. Remember that in Southeast Asia everyone at the table adds their favourite condiments to taste.

Nutrition

Calories: 3937kcal | Carbohydrates: 491g | Protein: 104g | Fat: 179g | Saturated Fat: 113g | Cholesterol: 216mg | Sodium: 10671mg | Potassium: 5302mg | Fiber: 46g | Sugar: 71g | Vitamin A: 60545IU | Vitamin C: 200.5mg | Calcium: 620mg | Iron: 19.3mg

Learn More About Lao Food

Traditional Recipes of Laos by Phia Sing and Alan Davidson

Food From Northern Laos: The Boat Landing Cookbook by Dorothy Culloty and Kees Sprengers

Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef’s Isan Thai & Lao Roots by James Syhabout and John Birdsall

Simple Laotian Cooking by Penn Hongthong

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About Terence Carter

Terence Carter is an editorial food and travel photographer and infrequent travel writer with a love of photographing people, places and plates of food. After living in the Middle East for a dozen years, he settled in South-East Asia a dozen years ago with his wife, travel and food writer and sometime magazine editor Lara Dunston.

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  1. Aaron says

    February 12, 2019 at 7:33 am

    I love Lao Khao Soi so much and this brings me right back there! Absolutely delicious recipe, great job.5 stars

  2. Terence Carter says

    February 12, 2019 at 9:23 am

    Thank you!

  3. Sian says

    November 10, 2019 at 4:26 am

    Thankyou!!! I spent three months in Laos and ate this most days, made it tonight for me and my boyfriend in London with this recipe and it was so authentic!! felt like we were back in Luang Prabang!!

  4. Terence Carter says

    November 10, 2019 at 10:01 am

    Sian, that’s great to hear. It’s a great dish!

  5. Sarah says

    June 13, 2020 at 11:56 am

    That’s one intimidating recipe! So many ingredients. I’ve been craving this ever since our trip to Laos in 2016. Worth the effort to make it – I made double the amount of stock and froze it in plastic bags. Love the long list of condiments, I just wish I’d bought one of those condiment caddy things there.5 stars

  6. Terence Carter says

    June 13, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    Hi Sarah, yes it is a long recipe! But I’ve kinda gotten used to it cooking from David Thompson’s Thai Food. We definitely fell in love with this dish in Luang Prabang and I had been modifying recipes to make it taste like our favourite one. I have to remember to double the amount of stock next time I make it!
    Cheers
    T

  7. Kempshark says

    July 30, 2020 at 3:04 pm

    What kind of chilli powder are you using for this? Just wondering. Thanks

  8. Terence Carter says

    July 30, 2020 at 3:18 pm

    Hi, the chilli powder and flakes we’re using come from the ‘birds-eye’ chillis local to all Southeast Asian countries. Our chillis in Cambodia are not as strong as those in Thailand, though.

  9. Dana says

    April 1, 2021 at 1:09 pm

    Great tasting and easy to make recipe. My family could not stop raving over the soup and we have definitely had our share of kasoy from different restaurants. Instead of snake beans, I used shredded red cabbage, green cabbage and bean sprouts. It’s like a party in the mouth!5 stars

  10. Terence Carter says

    April 2, 2021 at 10:10 am

    Great to hear Dana!

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If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

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This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

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Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

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