Hot And Sour Shrimp Soup - (Tom Yam Goong)
Description
A blend of hot and sour soup with citrus overtones. Tom Yam Goong is the most famous Thai soup. You will love this recipe.
Ingredients
At a glance
Cuisine
Thai
Main Ingredient
SeaFood
Garlic
Kaffir Lime
Difficulty
Moderate
Course/Dish
Fish and Seafood
Soup
Serves
4
- 8 oz. Shrimp/prawns, shelled and deveined. Don?t throw out the shells!
- 3 cups water
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 5 lime leaves
- 3 thin slices of fresh ginger root
- ¼ cup fish sauce
- 2 stalks lemon grass ; use the lower ¼ to 1/3rd portion only, cut into 1 inch lengths
- 2 shallots, sliced
- ½ cup sliced straw mushrooms
- 5 green Thai chili peppers, If you would prefer a soup that isn’t so spicy, lesson the number of peppers used. We like it hot!
- ¼ cup fresh squeezed lime juice
- 1-teaspoon red chili paste (see previous recipe)
- 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
Methods/steps
- Rinse the prawn shells and place them in a large pot with water.
- Heat to boiling, remove the shells and discard.
- Add the garlic, lime leaves; ginger root, fish sauce, lemon grass and shallots to the stock, then the chili peppers.
- Cook on medium
- heat for 15 minutes.
- Add the shrimp and mushrooms to the soup, and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes, or until the prawns turn pink.
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