How to Cook Tom Yum Soup
Serves: 3-4
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins
Ingredients needed to make Tom Yum Soup:
- 12 medium shrimps, shelled and deveined
- Handful of assorted vegetables (cherry tomatoes, baby pak choy, broccoli florets)
- Large handful of fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced
- 2 lemongrass stalks, minced
- 1 tsp grated galangal
- 3-4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 fresh red chili, minced
- 2-3 kaffir lime leaves
- Juice of a lime
- ¼ cup fresh cilantro leaves
- Handful of fresh Thai basil leaves
- ½ cup coconut milk
- 6 cups chicken stock
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- Dash of Thai chilli sauce
- 1 tsp sugar
Cooking instructions for Tom Yum Soup:
- Pour the stock into a large pot and heat it over high flame.
- Stir in the minced lemongrass until well combined and drop in the lemongrass.
- Bring the mixture to a rolling boil and reduce it to a simmer.
- Stir in the ginger, garlic as well as chili, along with a splash of fish plus soy sauces and lime juice until they mix properly.
- Throw in the mushrooms and continue to simmer over moderate heat for about 3 minutes.
- Dump the veggies, fresh basil leaves as well as shrimp and simmer further for another 3 minutes or until the flesh of the shrimps turn opaque.
- Lower the heat slightly and whisk in the coconut milk until they blend into the simmering soup and splash in some thai chilli sauce for added fiery heat.
- Give it a final stir to mix well and ladle it into serving bowls.
- Top it up with fresh cilantro and serve hot.
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