27/01/2012

Tom Yum Goong (Spicy soup with shrimps)




     Tom Yum Goong (Spicy soup with shrimps)
"Tom Yum Goong" is the most favorite thai food for foreigners because of its spicy flavor but not too hot. But, you know? There are many kinds of Tom Yum in Thailand.

     Today we are cooking Tom Yum Goong. There are simple ways you can do it yourself.
I guarantee that it's equally delicious cook by Thai people.









Ingredients

7-8 of the shrimps
1 cup oyster mushrooms
1 lemongrass
3 kaffir lime leaves
2 coriander roots
5 grains of pepper
1 teaspoon of salt
2 the coriander
5 of fresh chili
2 lemons
Fish sauce, vegetable oil, chili paste


How to cook
1. Rinse the shrimp thoroughly. Carved out of the Shrimp shells, and cut on the back of the shrimp
2. Lemon grass, cut into pieces.
3. Coriander roots, pepper, and salt, pound these ingredients mixed together. Then fried in vegetable oil until fragrant.
4. Boil water. When boiling add the fried ingredients at the moments earlier into the pot
5. Add lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves and chili into the pot
6. Add shrimps, wait until the shrimp are cooked, and add the oyster mushrooms. Wait a few minutes then reduce the heat down.
7. Season with fish sauce, lime juice and chili paste
8. Scoop the spicy shrimp soup into bowl and sprinkle with coriander.


More
- You can substitute the oyster mushrooms with shiitake mushroom or straw mushrooms.
- You can put the shrimp were not cut or sliced into pieces.

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