How much to cook Tom Yam soup?

How to cook Tom Yam soup

Products
Peeled shrimp - 500 grams
Champignons - 100 grams
Thai chili paste - 2 tablespoons
Chili pepper - 2 pieces
Lime - 2 pieces
Fish sauce - 4 tablespoons
Lemongrass - 2 stems
Galangal - 1 root
Kaffir lime leaves - 7 pieces
Chicken broth - 1 liter
Cilantro - to taste

Food preparation
1. Wash 2 lemongrass stems and 1 galangal root, cut into small pieces.
2. Wash 100 grams of champignons and cut into slices.
3. Rinse 2 chili peppers under cold running water, cut off the top and take out the inside, cut into thin rings.
4. Wash 2 limes and squeeze out the juice.
5. Wash and grind cilantro.

How to cook Tom Yam in a saucepan
1. Pour 1 liter of chicken stock into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
2. Add pieces of lemongrass, galangal and 7 kaffir lime leaves.
3. Mix everything and bring to a boil again.
4. Add 100 grams of chopped champignons, 4 tablespoons of fish sauce, 2 tablespoons of Thai chili paste. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Then add 500 grams of peeled shrimp, lime juice and chili rings.
6. Cook for another 4 minutes, remove the pan from heat.
7. Add chopped cilantro to the soup before serving.

How to cook Tom Yam in a slow cooker
1. Pour 1 liter of chicken broth into the multicooker bowl. Switch on the "Steam cooking" mode. Bring to a boil (10 minutes).
2. Add pieces of lemongrass, galangal, 7 kaffir lime leaves. Turn on the same mode for another 5 minutes.
3. Add 4 tablespoons of fish sauce, 100 grams of champignons, 2 tablespoons of chili paste. Switch on the same mode for 5 minutes.
4. Then add lime juice, 500 grams of shrimp, chili peppers to the soup. Cook for another 5 minutes.
5. Sprinkle chopped cilantro over the soup before serving.

Fusofacts

- Calorie content soup Tom yam - 105 kcal / 100 grams.

- Galangal in Tom Yam soup recipe can be replaced with ginger root (2 pieces).

- Champignons can be replaced with oyster mushrooms, shiitake, straw mushrooms.

- You can use dried chili instead of fresh chili.

- Kaffir lime leaves can be replaced with 1 lime zest or 1 green lemon zest.

- Lemongrass is replaced by lemongrass.

- You can use oyster sauce instead of fish sauce.

- Lime can be replaced with green lemon.

- Shelf life of Tom Yam soup is 4 days in the refrigerator.

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November 20, 2015 Last update June 7, 2020Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova

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