I’m in the mood for something spicy and since today is Tuesday Soup Day, I thought I’d celebrate by featuring this awesome recipe I found for Tom Yum Soup. And Yum, indeed. If you’re into Thai food, this one’s for you.
Ingredients
40 gram shrimps with shell removed except the tail
200 gram white squid sliced roundly
150 gram snapper fillet sliced squarely
200 gram green mussel with shell,clean well
75 gram mushroom chopped into two pieces
3 lemon grass, crushed it
7 pieces kaffir lime leaves
5 tbs fish sauce
10 small chillies
1 sdm coriander leaves
2 tbs cooking oil
2 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon sugar
1500 ml seafood broth
5 tbs lime juice
For Grinding
4 red big chillies
3 garlic
1 teaspoon shrimp paste, fried it
3 huzelnut
Directions
Boil seafood broth with lemon grass, lime leaves, shrimp, squid, snapper, mussel, mushroom, salt and sugar by small fire until fragrant. Pan-fry grinding seasoning with cooking oil until fragrant. Add fish sauce. Stir for a while and add to seafood broth. Boil until it becomes absorbed. Before turning off the heat, add coriander leaves, chilles and lime juice. Serve it immediately while hot.
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