How much to cook Khau Tom?

It takes 2 hours to cook Thai Khau Tom soup.

How to cook Khau Tom

Products
Rice - 1 glass of 300 milliliters
Water - 2 liters
Pork - 200 grams
Black peppercorns - 5 peas
Lime - 1 piece
Fish sauce - 3 tablespoons
Salt - 1 teaspoon

How to cook Khau Tom
1. Pork, if frozen, defrost, rinse and dry.
2. Place the pork on a board and cut into 1/2-inch cubes, removing excess fat.
3. Transfer the pork pieces to a saucepan, pour over 2 liters of running water and put on fire.
4. When the broth begins to boil, remove the resulting foam, add salt and pepper, reduce heat and close the pan with a lid.
5. Cook the pork pieces for 1 hour with low simmering.
6. Rinse the rice and add to the pork.
7. Cover the pan with a lid, wait for it to boil and cook for another 20 minutes.
8. Cut the lime in half, remove the seeds and squeeze the juice into a saucepan (make sure that the seeds do not get into the final dish).
9. Pour the fish sauce into a saucepan.
10. Bring Khao Tom to a boil, turn off the heat and serve.

Fusofacts

- Khao Tom is an Asian soup served in Thailand for breakfast. Pork in Khao Tom can be replaced with minced meat balls, shrimp or chicken fillet.

- Despite the fact that in Russia it is not customary to have breakfast with soup, Khau Tom, due to the benefits of rice and broth, will not be a heavy breakfast. And in case of stomach problems, Khau Tom is also a healing food.

- Salt Khau Tom with caution, because fish sauce is quite salty.

- Serve Thai breakfast Khau Tom with cilantro or parsley, sprinkled with grated ginger and ground chili, serve fried garlic separately.

- Because rice is boiled in soup and turns into porridge, Khao Tom should be cooked for 1 meal.

- Economical option Khao Tom - no meat, but more garlic, seasonings and additionally add a bouillon cube.

- Khao Tom in Thailand can be tasted in almost any cafe and shop. Khau Tom, cooked at home, is usually more rich becausechefs add not broth to the soup, but an adjustable bouillon cube.

- To taste, you can add more or less broth to make the Khao Tom consistency more liquid or denser. To regulate calorie content, you can replace part of the broth with water, and pork meat with shrimps.

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

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