30 Gluten-Free Asian Recipes Without Soy Sauce | Rice Life Foodie
This list of 30 Gluten Free Asian recipes without soy sauce is so tasty… so you don’t have to live on plain rice and steamed vegetables. Whether you’re avoiding soy sauce because of gluten, a soy sauce sensitivity, or you simply don’t like the taste or seek something different today, explore the range flavors in the list that gives you choices to spice up your at-home-menus.
I am a huge proponent that garlic, ginger, lime, salt, fish sauce, curry paste, spices, miso, coconut milk, chilies, herbs and spices can do a lot… and I mean A LOT. My list could go on!
So, soy sauce is not to be missed and not to mention, Asian recipes have many gluten free options.
I like gluten free when I can, considering so many kids snacks and daily meals can easily contain pastas or “gluten-full” carbs. Soy sauce is such an easy shortcut for salty, savory flavor that we tend to put it into a ton of recipes. Not today!
You’ll find Filipino, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Indian and other Asian-inspired recipes here, from hearty and amazing tasting soups, rice dishes, Asian salads that are colorful, and pretty quick meals.
A quick note: These recipes don’t use soy sauce, but not every recipe is soy-free. A few contain ingredients such as miso or tofu. If you need to avoid soy completely, check the recipe ingredients and labels carefully.
Gluten-Free Asian Breakfast Recipes Without Soy Sauce
1. Miso Scrambled Eggs
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Miso Scrambled Eggs
This miso scrambled eggs recipe is simple, perfectly seasoned with umami taste. Easy to make with more variations like adding butter, veggies, or putting on toasts and on rice.
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These fluffy scrambled eggs get an extra savory boost from miso instead of soy sauce. They’re quick enough for a weekday breakfast and especially good with hot rice and sliced avocado.
2. Crispy Rice Paper Omelette
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This is one of my most loved, favorited, and popular recipes with rice paper. It’s a fun breakfast when you want something a little different from regular scrambled eggs. You can hold this food in your hand!
3. Simple Garlic Fried Rice
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Garlic Fried Rice (Sinangag)
This side dish is so fragrant, savory, and full of crispy garlic goodness that takes your leftover rice to the next level. Try garlic fried rice with your breakfast eggs or as a side to fish and grilled meats. Only few ingredients!
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You don’t need soy sauce to make really good fried rice. This simple version gets its flavor from plenty of garlic, rice, oil and a few basic seasonings. I love garlic rice with eggs!
4. Garlic Turmeric Rice
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Garlic Turmeric Rice
Garlic Turmeric Rice is a vibrant, flavorful dish that combines the savory, lip-smacking flavor of crisp garlic with rich, colorful turmeric.
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Fragrant garlic and earthy turmeric turn plain rice into something much more interesting. Serve it alongside eggs, chicken, seafood or vegetables for an easy Asian-inspired breakfast or side dish.
5. Butternut Squash Congee
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Butternut Squash Congee
This butternut squash congee is an exciting, healthy, and super lip-smacking way to enjoy congee or a rice and squash soup. The texture in this congee recipe is perfection, balanced, creamy, and smooth.
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Creamy, comforting congee gets a naturally sweet twist from butternut squash. It’s warm, filling and perfect for a slow weekend breakfast or whenever you want something gentle and cozy.
Gluten-Free Asian Lunch Recipes Without Soy Sauce
6. Authentic Chicken Larb Salad
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Thai Chicken Larb Salad (Larb Gai)
This Thai Chicken Larb Salad recipe is fresh with ground chicken mixed with mint and cilantro leaves, tossed with toasted pounded rice, and an easy zesty dressing for an authentic Thai dish experience. Serve with lettuce leaves or sticky rice.
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Fresh herbs, lime, chili and savory chicken make this Thai-style larb incredibly flavorful without relying on soy sauce. It’s light enough for lunch but still satisfying.
7. Bagged Salad Spring Rolls
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Easy Bagged Salad Spring Rolls
This finger food delight requires low effort, but looks fancy, with few ingredients. These satisfying salad spring rolls are a total game changer on what you can create with something so simple.
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This is my kind of shortcut. Grab a bag of salad mix, tuck it into rice paper wrappers and you’ve got easy spring rolls without chopping a million vegetables! It’s my lazy day recipe… but it works.
8. Korean Potato Salad
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Korean Potato Salad – Gamja salad (감자 샐러드)
This Korean potato salad recipe is simple, soft, and fluffier because of steamed potatoes. It has bits of crisp veggies with a tangy-sweet mayo mixture, just like banchan at the restaurant.
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Creamy Korean-style potato salad makes an easy lunch or side dish. It’s simple, comforting and completely different from the typical American potato salad.
9. Rainbow Soba Noodle Salad
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Rainbow Soba Noodle Salad
A fast to make, vibrantly colorful mix of vegetables, springy soba noodles, and zesty ginger honey dressing makes this a low calorie, low fat, vegan, and superfood healthy salad that’s packed with flavor.
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Colorful vegetables and noodles come together in this fresh, crunchy salad that’s great for lunch. For a gluten-free version, use 100% buckwheat soba or certified gluten-free noodles, since many soba noodles contain wheat.
10. Chickpea Masala Tacos
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Quick Easy Masala Chickpea Tacos
These masala chickpea tacos are perfectly seared with a touch of Indian spices and topped with zesty pickled onion for a colorful, vibrant, and lip-smacking protein filled taco recipe.
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These aren’t traditional Asian tacos, but they bring together Indian-inspired chickpea masala with an easy handheld style. They’re flavorful, filling and a fun meatless lunch. I gobbled this entire plate!
11. Filipino Chicken and Ginger Rice (Arroz Caldo)
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Arroz Caldo a Filipino Chicken and Rice Soup Recipe
A vibrant family style recipe, arroz caldo is flavorful with fork-tender chicken, fresh ginger, and Asian seasoning making for a healthy, but hearty meal that you have to try.
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The chicken is FALL OFF THE BONE style. It’s fragrant and one of my favorite Filipino chicken recipes. The ginger is perfect for cozy and warming. Kids also love this.
Gluten-Free Asian Soups and Stews Without Soy Sauce
12. Coconut Lime Fish Soup
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Coconut Lime Fish Soup
Coconut fish soup is healthy, easy, and loaded with flavor. Tender white fish is poached in a fragrant and light coconut broth infused with ginger, finished with fresh lime juice.
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This fish soup has island vibes written all over it! Simple, healthy, and delish.
13. Filipino Chicken Pochero Stew
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Filipino Chicken Pochero
Wow! This authentic Chicken Pochero recipe is a healthy, loaded Filipino stew with fall-off-the-bone chicken, savory tomato-chicken broth, natural sweet plantain banana, chickpeas, and delicious greens. Nutritious, hearty, and comforting.
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This Filipino stew is an ultimate mix with plantain banana and chickpeas. So healthy and with tender chicken. The subtle sweet in the plantain is an amazing mix to try.
14. Asian Sardine Soup
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Asian Sardine Soup (Filipino Sardines Sinigang Style)
This fish soup recipe is light, healthy, full of easy to access vegetables, and in a savory broth made with canned sardines.
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Sardines are packed with omegas and you’ll be surprised how easy they are to prepare and eat in this soup style recipe.
15. No-Water Chicken Soup
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No Water Chicken Soup
This is a true waterless chicken soup recipe which yields a concentrated, flavorful, and healthy chicken broth and the most tender, fall off the bone whole chicken. Few ingredients and minimal prep!
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Not a drop of water! I love this one pot, set it and forget chicken soup recipe. It’s crazy how the broth is created… I would also call this magic chicken soup!
16. Chicken Sinigang
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Healthy, Tasty, All Natural Chicken Sinigang
Chicken Sinigang is so yummy with tomatoes for a tangy broth. All natural ingredients, fork tender chicken, and veggie broth make this a very healthy version and gluten free.
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Filipino chicken sinigang is the best soup for adults and kids with a “sour” signature broth from tomatoes and onion. Smack your lips good and so healthy.
17. Carrot Miso Soup
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Carrot Miso Soup
This carrot soup with miso is savory with slight sweetness, is easy, quick, and needs few ingredients for a nutritious bowl of goodness.
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Get your glow up! I literally feel like this is the soup for skin and wellness. So healthy and simple ingredients.
18. Asian Chicken Lentil Soup
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Asian Chicken Lentil Soup
This Asian inspired chicken lentil soup is easy to prepare and is a main meal in less than an hour with just a few steps. It’s protein rich, healthy, and savory goodness in each spoonful.
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Lentils and chicken make this soup hearty enough to be a meal, while ginger, garlic and Asian-inspired seasonings keep it from tasting like an ordinary lentil soup.
19. Spicy Silken Tofu Soup Hot Pot
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Easy Spicy Silken Tofu Soup Recipe
This spicy silken tofu soup recipe is super easy that anyone can make it and there is no need for a pantry full of Korean ingredients! It’s quick, simple, and is loaded with protein, vegetables, spice, and lip-smacking taste that slaps! Easy to make vegan.
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Bring the hot pot to your kitchen table. I love this soup. It makes me sweat a little which is the good sign of solid spicy tofu soup. Plus, packed with protein.
20. Natural Filipino Beef Sinigang (Sinigang na Baka)
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Natural Beef Sinigang : Sinigang na Baka
A famously loved Filipino sour soup (not really sour, but incredibly amazing) using all wholesome ingredients. Enjoy from scratch beef bone-broth combined with flavor boosts of fresh pressed tamarind and full of vegetables to create a healthy, easy one-pot meal that can be eaten anytime.
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You can find the ingredients at most stores, but get the tamarind from the Filipino market or Asian grocery nearest you. Tender beef and vegetables simmer together in a naturally sour Filipino broth. Fall apart tender meat! Kid friendly.
21. Filipino Beef Bulalo Collagen Soup
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Bulalo Recipe (Collagen Soup Bone Stock)
This is an incredible Filipino soup that features spoon tender beef shanks, extra marrow bones, and a bone stock from scratch that makes a rich collagen soup. Few ingredients, simple, and very satisfying for the whole family.
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Bulalo is basically beef shanks with bone, slow cooked to extract the collagen and the broth is clear and healthy! Now this is so much better than buying collagen powder… just make this soup.
Gluten-Free Asian Dinners Without Soy Sauce
22. Thai Salmon Red Curry
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Thai Salmon Red Curry Recipe
This easy Thai salmon red curry recipe will transport your senses with the comforting, tongue hugging flavors of infused coconut milk with spicy and savory red curry with tender, cooked-to-perfection salmon.
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The aroma and easy bottle red curry paste (from grocery) make this recipe done quickly! Serve it over jasmine rice to soak up all that curry sauce.
23. Coconut Shrimp with Butternut Squash Stew (Ginataang Kalabasa at Hipon)
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Ginataang Kalabasa with Shrimp
Healthy and jammed with flavor! Butternut squash is a star in a lip-smacking coconut milk stew with garlic, ginger, and onion. Add green beans and the most tender shrimp. Be cozy with this one pot delight.
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Impressive! Healthy, hearty, serve your guests this island stew that is beautiful to look at, as it is to taste.
24. Lime Ginger Chili Shrimp
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Easy Lime Ginger Chili Shrimp
So Easy, this lime ginger chili shrimp recipe is super lip-smacking, zesty, can be served hot or cold, and is done in fifteen minutes!
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Dinner is served in twenty minutes with this fragrant and zesty shrimp dish.
25. Korean Kimchi Fried Rice
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Easy Kimchi Fried Rice
Simply stir-fry kimchi with leftover rice and top with a sunny egg. Spicy and delectable!
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Kimchi brings plenty of salty, spicy, fermented flavor to fried rice, so you don’t necessarily need soy sauce! This recipe has no soy sauce and all flavor.
26. Authentic Filipino Kare-Kare (Peanut, Tripe & Oxtail)
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Easy Kare Kare Recipe Oxtail & Tripe with Peanut Sauce
This Filipino kare kare recipe with tender oxtail and tripe, smothered in a rich, savory, and umami peanut sauce is the ultimate comfort food for cozy nights.
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Kare-kare is a rich Filipino peanut stew traditionally made with oxtail, tripe and vegetables. You can sub the protein with chicken or just beef if you want. The peanut sauce is so rich and savory.
Go visit the Filipino market and you’ll find everything you need to make this for a party or potluck.
27. Air Fryer Whole Branzino
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Air Fryer Branzino Recipe
This air fryer branzino fish recipe is so easy and whips up fast! You can use an oven with the same method. The result is tender, flaky, meaty, and the most lip-smacking branzino fish meal that was nearly effortless.
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A whole branzino cooks in ten minutes. There… now you know what to make for dinner.
28. Butternut Squash Curry
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Butternut Squash Curry with Coconut Milk
Very easy, few ingredients, and loaded with tongue-hugging flavor. This is one of the best vegan butternut squash recipes. Squash, coconut milk, turmeric, and paprika create the most satisfying vegan and gluten-free meal.
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Butternut squash is golden and that’s how you are going to feel. I think if you’re looking for skin-food and wellness, but something truly good… this is it.
Asian Sauces Without Soy Sauce
29. Asian Chimichurri Sauce
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Spoon it over grilled meat, seafood, rice or vegetables. It’s addictive Asian drug sauce (without the drugs, obviously!).
30. 5-Minute Sriracha Mayo Sauce
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5-Minute Sriracha Mayo Sauce
This 5 Minute Sriracha Mayo Sauce adds bold, craveable flavor to almost everything…better than store-bought with no additives.
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Creamy, spicy and ready in about five minutes, this sauce is better than a store bought version. It’s fresher and makes a great addition to sandwiches, rice bowls, proteins, and sushi.
Best Tips When Cooking gluten-free Asian Recipes
- If you’re avoiding gluten, soy sauce is one of the first things to look at, but it isn’t the only thing. Regular soy sauce commonly contains wheat, which is why people often reach for gluten-free tamari or omit soy sauce.
- So with that said, this list of recipe is useful because instead of trying to recreate every recipe with a soy-sauce replacement, these dishes show how to build flavor from ginger, garlic, lime, chilies, coconut milk, curry, herbs, tamarind, fish sauce, miso and other ingredients.
- Use the foundational steps and ingredients here to keep cooking and making flavor with those aroma making, flavor boosting spices and herbs.
- If you’re avoiding soy completely rather than just soy sauce, read labels to avoid soy products. Miso, tofu, some curry pastes, bottled sauces and other prepared ingredients can contain soy.
Overall, I hope you found some delicious recipes to bring into your home that don’t make you have to think about substitutions or akward replacements.
These gluten free Asian recipes don’t have any soy sauce in them either, so if you’re not into soy sauce, you don’t need to stray away from Asian food.
Enjoy and start creating!
