Award Winning Spicy Noodle Soup

So I won a national recipe contest! Zoup! Soup hosted the “Really good soup contest” in 2014 and I submitted my Spicy Noodle Soup recipe, and won! I won a gift card to Williams Sonoma and also got to cook my soup on two local news stations, one in Detroit (Zoup’s first home) and one in my hometown, CLE. You can try my soup at various locations across the U.S., Zoup tweaked the recipe a little and renamed it “Dragonfire Noodle Bowl.”
 
If I had to describe my spicy noodle soup to someone who’s never had it before I would say it’s a sort of spicy ramen, but instead of ramen noodles it’s made with Korean glass noodles (also called sweet potato noodles and glass noodles.) The noodles are clear, really slippery..and also gluten free. I’ve never seen them at local grocery stores so I suggest if you’re going to look for them to call and ask your local Asian markets or order them online.
 
The recipe is extremely flexible. You can add in more or less of one flavor if you prefer without really messing things up. If you want to keep things meatless, you can use veggie broth but I prefer chicken because I think it’s more flavorful. 

Ingredients: 

• 8 cups of chicken broth
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon of Asian chili powder
• 1/4 cup Sriracha hot sauce
• 1/4 cup of tomato sauce
• 2 tablespoons of chili oil
• 1/4 cup chopped scallions
• 1 cup of mushrooms (dried or fresh, chopped or not)
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tablespoon of salt
• 1/2 lb (about one bag) of korean glass noodles

Cooking Instructions:

1. Fill a large pot with water and bring to a boil to cook the glass noodles.
2. Bring 6 cups of store bought or home made chicken broth to a low boil.
3. Add in soy sauce, chili powder, sriracha, tomato sauce, chili oil, and salt in into the broth and mix. 
4. Add the parsley, scallions, mushrooms, and garlic into the soup mixture. Stir and let simmer for 10 minutes.
5. While your broth mixture is simmering, use the initial pot of boiling water and prepare the glass noodles according to package directions and drain. Be careful how long you let the noodles sit after the water is drained, they get sticky once their out of water. (If you're not immediately eating, the best way to serve the soup would be to keep the noodles separate from the broth and refrigerate. Once you're ready to eat, combine broth + noodles and reheat either on the stove.)
6. Put the noodles into the soup broth and slurp away. ​Warning: very spicy!