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Tóm Yum soup

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Tom Yum Seafood

Packed with herbs, spices, and vegetables.

I present to you the Don of Thai soups, the notorious ‘Tom Yum’. This soup is packed with flavour and has magnificent health benefactors. Food will simply never taste the same after you try this.  Tom Yum is a spicy and sour soup packed with herbs and vegetables.  It’s traditionally eaten with large fresh prawns, but chicken or this seafood version are just as good. If you’re feeling a bit under the weather and battling against a cold, then look no further. Tom Yum contains lime juice, ginger, lemon grass, coriander and chilli ,which will boost your health and get your immune system armed to the teeth. It’s rich in herbs which swim in a pool of intense flavours. Check out your local China shop for Tom Yum paste and start cooking! It can be enjoyed with Thai jasmine rice or simply on its own.

READY TO COOK?

  1. Pour 3 pints of water and vegetable stock into a large pot, bring to boil.
  2. Pop the ginger, lemon grass, and Tom Yum paste into the pot. Simmer for 15 minutes.
  3. Add your mushrooms, chilli, and kaffir lime leaves. Simmer for another 10 minutes.
  4. Add the juice of 2 and a half limes, fish sauce, and sugar. Stir well.
  5. Taste and adjust to your liking. Add more sugar for sweetness or fish sauce for more saltiness.
  6. Once the soup is ready, pop in your prawns and squid. Simmer for 1 minute.
  7. After you have dished it out into a large soup bowl, add a handful of coriander to finish off.

INGREDIENTS

  • 600g (1.3 pounds/21 oz) fresh prawns – peeled and cleaned

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  • 1 large fresh squid – sliced into large 2 inch chunks
  • 4 table spoons of Tom Yum paste

tom yum paste

  • 3 sticks of lemon grass (sliced into 2 inch portions)
  • 100g ginger (pealed and sliced into 1 inch portions)
  • 400g oyster mushrooms (ripped into large slices)

oyster mushrooms

  • 3 fresh limes
  • 4 birds eye chilli (use 1 if you like it mild or more for extra punch) – roughly chopped.
  • 5 kaffir lime leaves (can be found in the frozen section of your local China town shop)

Lime chilli kaffir lime leaves

  • 1/4 cup (60ml) chicken stock (you can use cubed or ready-made stock)
  • 1 tablespoon of palm sugar (or white castor sugar if you can’t find any)
  • 5 tablespoons of fish sauce

tom yum seafood