Tom Yum Soup


 INGREDIENTS

2 stalks lemongrass

4 cups chicken stock

3 cloves garlic, minced

6 lime leaves (dried or fresh)

1 cup shitake mushrooms, whole or sliced

1 red pepper, sliced

20 medium or large shrimp, peeled and cleaned

1 handful cherry tomatoes, whole or halved

1 handful sugar snaps

1 can bamboo shoots

1 can coconut milk

1 handful roughly chopped coriander

1 chili, chopped

3 tablespoons fish sauce

Juice of 4 limes

1 tablespoon brown sugar

METHOD

Finely mince the lower third of the lemon grass stalk and leave remainder whole

Pour the chicken stock into a deep pot and turn heat to medium/high

Add lemon grass pulp and stalks and boil for 6 minutes until fragrant

Reduce the heat to simmer and add garlic, chili and lime leaves for another 5 minutes

Add shrimp, red pepper, cherry tomatoes, sugar snaps, bamboo shoots and mushrooms and simmer for 5 minutes until shrimp are pink

Turn down the heat to low and add coconut milk, fish sauce, lime juice, coriander and sugar

Serve in bowls

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