Tom Yum soup is a popular Thai soup known for its spicy and sour flavors. It typically includes ingredients like lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, lime juice, chili peppers, and shrimp or chicken.
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Tom Yum Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 300 g / 10oz whole prawns / shrimp with heads and shells on Note 7
Broth:
- 3 cup 750 ml water
- 1/2 cup 125 ml chicken stock/broth , low sodium
- 2 stalks of lemongrass outer layers peeled(Note 1)
- 1.5 cm / 3/5" piece of galangal cut into 4 slices (Note 2)
- 5 kaffir lime leaves torn roughly (Note 3)
- 2 Thai or birdseye chillies Note 4
- 3 garlic cloves
Soup Add Ins:
- 120 g / 4oz oyster mushrooms
- 1 roma tomato cut into wedges
- 1/2 white onion medium sized, cut into wedges about 1 cm thick
- 1 tsp sugar
- 3 tbsp fish sauce Note 5
- 3 tbsp lime juice
- Coriander/cilantro for garnish
Instructions
Broth:
- Peel the prawns. Place heads and shell in pot, reserve meat.
- Use a meat mallet or similar to bash the garlic, chilli and lemongrass so they burst open to release flavour. Add into pot.
- Crush kaffir lime leaves with your hands. Add into pot.
- Add galangal, stock and water. Bring to simmer on high heat, cover, then reduce to medium and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Strain the broth, discard the prawn shells etc, then return broth into same pot over low heat.
Finish Soup:
- Add onions and mushrooms, simmer 3 minutes. Add tomatoes, simmer for 1 minute.
- Add prawns, simmer 2 minutes or until just cooked.
- Stir in sugar and fish sauce, simmer for 1 minute.
- Add lime juice, then taste. Adjust sweet (sugar), salt (fish sauce) and sour (lime) to your taste (trust me, you'll know when you like it!).
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