Рецепт Tom Yum Soup Recipe
Many, many years ago I worked in a restaurant in Rivonia, Sandton. After work, all the restaurant workers from a lot of the local places would gather at a bar for after work drinks. One of our early night choices was a place called the White House. It was festive and the bar was separate from the restaurant. Every now and then I would eat at the restaurant which served Thai cuisine. I have no idea how authentic the food was and my favourite meal has never appeared on any other menu at any other Thai place I have frequented. However, it was here that my love of Thai food began, and I will cook a Thai curry before any other curry as I love the balance of citrus to sour and hot that Thai food has to offer. When we went to Grootbos we had tom yum soup as one course of our dinner. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to make it at home. When researching Tom Yam soup as it is called in my book food and travels Asia I discovered that Tom Yum refers to a broth made with fragrant herbs and is characterized by the hot and sour flavours. Goong or Kung refers to the version we had at Grootbos, which is served with prawns. We did not have any prawns in the freezer and so I used crayfish instead. You could use chicken / gai or kai as the protein and if you add coconut milk to it you must call the broth Tom Yam Nam Khon. I loved the aromatics of this broth and for my friends who are doing the 5:2 diet, I am sure it will fit in with your eating regime if you use a mixture of seafood - Tom Yum Po Taek or pork Tom Yam Kha Mu. No matter what, I am sure you will enjoy this tom yum soup as much as we did.
what protein would you add to your version?
Thai information sourced from Wikipedia
Tom Yum Soup Recipe
Adapted from food and travels Asia page 99
Ingredients:
- 750mls chicken stock
- 4 small spring onions, thinly sliced
- 2cm root ginger, peeled and thickly sliced
- 1 stick lemongrass, bruised and thinly sliced
- 4 dried kaffir lime leaves
- 8 slices of tinned bamboo shoots, thinly sliced
- 20mls fish sauce
- 1 lime cut in half
- 5mls palm sugar, grated
- 2 chillies split
- 2 crayfish tails, cut into chunks
- 3 small tomatoes, halved
- Small bunch of fresh coriander, roughly chopped
Method:
Place the stock into a large pot and add the spring onions
Place the ginger into a spice bomb and bring to the boil
Reduce the heat and simmer for an hour
Remove the spice bomb and add the lemongrass and lime leaves
Add back to the stock together with the bamboo shoots
Simmer for 10 minutes and then add 10mls fish sauce, the juice of half the lime, 2.5mls palm sugar and the chillies
Simmer for 5 minutes and then add the crayfish
Simmer for 5 minutes to cook the crayfish
Remove the spice bomb and add the tomatoes, the rest of the fish sauce, and the rest of the palm sugar if you think it's necessary
Remove from the heat and add the juice of the other half of the lime
Garnish with coriander and serve with [balachaung|http://tandysinclair.com/balachaung-dried-shrimp-relish-recipe/} if you want an enhanced shrimp paste flavour
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I am a foodie who is passionate about regional and seasonal produce. I live in a cottage by the sea with my husband, our three dogs, a tortoise and a fish. We are busy building a house which is an adventure all in itself. Each year we visit a new place to experience the food of the area.