

Authentic Tom Yum Goong Soup
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Author: My Global Cuisine
Recipe type: Soup
Cuisine: Thai
Serves: Serves 2
Ingredients
- 2 cups of water or fish stock
- 1 lemongrass stalk - with the outermost leaf removed - sliced diagonally into 1 inch pieces
- 5 slices of galangal ginger about half inch each
- 5 kaffir lime leaves, sliced in half
- 2 TSP Thai Chili Paste
- 10 medium sized prawns, heads removed, peeled and deveined
- 1- 2 TBSP of fish sauce
- 2 TSP of sugar
- 3 TBSP of lime juice
- 1 cup straw mushrooms or any type of mushrooms- trim the stem off and cut into quarters
- 1 small tomato cut into quarters
- 2 TBSP of coconut milk
- 2 to 3 bird's eye chilies or more if you like it hot
- 1 TBSP of coriander leaves- cilantro leaves chopped
- 1 green onion cut into quarters
Instructions
- - Pour stock into a sauce pan and bring to a simmer.
- - Add the lemongrass, the galangal ginger, the kaffir lime leaves and the chilli paste, and allow to simmer between 1 and 2 minutes
- - Add the prawns, the fish sauce, the sugar, the lime juice, and simmer for two minutes.
- - Add the mushrooms, the tomato, the coconut milk, the bird's eye chilies and simmer for another minute
- - Add the coriander leaves or cilantro leaves, the green onions and turn off the heat.
- - Taste the soup and adjust the flavors. You may add more lime juice, fish sauce or chilies if needed. Taste and serve.
I need some of this right now. I love the flavors, it brings me back to Thailand.
Thanks Miryam,
The same here. We need to get back to Thailand and stay longer this time!
Love, Carla
Thank you so much my friend! I feel the same way. That was such an amazing trip. We need to go back and this time to Chiang Mai in the Northern side. Woohoo!