Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, tom yum chicken and shrimp soup (thai hot and sour soup). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This summer our family spent a month in Southeast Asia. It was an amazing adventure filled with colorful cultural experiences Tom Yum is a simple, but flavorful, soup made with fresh lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, fish sauce, chiles, and protein… Usually shrimp. In this Thai tom yum soup recipe (ต้มยำกุ้ง) you'll learn how to make the authentic taste of this popular Thai dish.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook tom yum chicken and shrimp soup (thai hot and sour soup) using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Tom Yum Chicken and Shrimp soup (Thai Hot and sour soup):
- Prepare 1/2 pound chicken thigh of boneless pieces, cleaned and cut into small thin pieces (about 1/2 inch thick and 1 inch long)
- Get 10 - 12 shrimp uncooked (medium size), shells removed
- Make ready 2 tomatoes medium size , chopped into big chunks (roughly 1 inch)
- Get 1 red onion medium (chopped into 1 inch chunks)
- Make ready 1 inch by 1 inch ginger piece of , chopped into very thin round slices
- Take 6 cloves garlic medium size , chopped into half
- Take 1 tsp red chilli powder (optional)
- Get 3 - 4 kaffir lime dried leaves
- Make ready a small 1/2 inch tamarind water - ball , soaked in 1/2 cup
- Take 4 cups water of
- Prepare 1 cup coconut milk of (fresh or canned)
- Prepare 1 tbsp lime juice fresh
- Make ready 1 tsp salt - (per taste)
You can adjust this Tom Yum Soup recipe to make it more or less spicy, according to your taste, by altering the amount of chili-garlic sauce you stir in at the end. This was also the very first Thai dish I ever cooked for the husband. He came over for dinner when I was still living with my mom and dad. This Thai tom yum soup will stay on your family favorite list forever.
Instructions to make Tom Yum Chicken and Shrimp soup (Thai Hot and sour soup):
- 1 medium hot green chilly pepper (you can omit this if you want to keep it mild or use 2-3 if you want extra spicy)
- Wash the chicken pieces and marinate them in 1 tbsp of tom yum paste (reserve 1 tbsp paste for later in the recipe). Toss the chicken pieces into a microwave safe glass bowl with a little bit of water (about 1/4 cup) and cook for about 10 minutes until the chicken pieces are well-cooked.(If you have sensor cook or auto cook in your microwave, you could use that setting or you can also just cook the chicken on the stove). Leave the chicken pieces to cool.
- Meanwhile, take a large pot and boil 3 cups of water in it. When the water starts boiling, add the red onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, green chillies, the kaffir lime leaves, the red chilli powder (if you are adding it) and the 1tbsp of tom yum paste. Cover with a lid and let t cook for about 10 minutes on medium heat.
- Next add the shrimp to the pot and let it cook for another 5 minutes. Next take the chicken pieces and try to shred them a little bit using your hands (so that they are medium size pieces to eat in a soup). Add the chicken pieces into the pot along with the chicken stock. Next take the soaked tamarind ball and mash the ball with your hands to get the tamarind pulp. Strain this through a strainer (to get any seed and fibrous pulp out) and pour the thin tamarind pulp into the pot.
- Next add the 1 cup of coconut milk and stir slowly for 1 minute on low flame. Do a taste test and add salt per your taste. Put the heat off and finally add the 1 tbsp of lime juice and stir well. Enjoy the soup while its hot. You can eat this with plain white rice or a piece of fresh french bread. Tom Yum is just Yum!
It's made with shrimp, chicken If this tom yum soup is too sour for your taste, add a little brown sugar. Tom kha typically contains chicken and almost always includes coconut milk, while tom yum usually includes shrimp and can. This is our version of the hot and sour soup, modified to taste as much as possible like the wonderful version we would get at our favorite Thai restaurant Saute the chicken and/or tofu, onion (not the green onions), half each of the ginger and lemongrass until the chicken is only a little bit pink and the. Tom Yum Soup is a quick, easy, and healthy weeknight recipe. This version is made with shrimp, but feel free to add the seafood of your choice.
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