Everyone always recommends a chicken soup as a cure for a cold and flu.
This hot and spicy Tom Yum Soup is my instant cure. The warm broth flavoured with ginger and chilli will warm you and clear any blockages within minutes.
This soup might smell and look strange but once you experience the burst of flavours in your mouth, you will be hooked for life. I know I am…
Ingredients:
6C Chicken
Stock
1
stalk Lemongrass
5 Curry
Leaves
4 Fresh Garlic Cloves
1 Fresh Ginger (thumbsize)
2 Fresh Red Chillies
2 Spring
Onions
½
Red Pepper
½
Green Pepper
2 Chicken Breasts
2T
Fish Sauce
2T
Light Soy Sauce
1T
Lemon Juice
1t
Sugar
1 tub Sour Cream (250ml)
½C Fresh Coriander Leaves
Tip: Lemongrass - Slice off the bottom of the stalk and remove the dry outer layers, do not use. Continue to remove layers until you feel the soft inner core. Chop this finely. Add this and removed inner layers for extra flavour.
1. Pour the Stock into a
deep cooking pot and it bring to the boil.
2. Add the Lemongrass
and Curry Leaves, boil it for 2 minutes.
3. Peel and slice the
Garlic, Ginger and Red Chilli, add it to the broth and boil it for 2 minutes.
4. Chop the Spring
Onions, Peppers and Chicken Breasts into thin slices and add to the pot. Reduce
Heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Add the Sour Cream, Fish
Sauce, Soy Sauce, Lemon Juice and Sugar.
6. Top it with fresh Coriander Leaves.
7. Stir and taste.
8. Add extra Salt or
Fish Sauce or Red Chilli to adjust the taste to your liking.
Tip:
Too
Sour – add ½ t Sugar
Too
Salty – add extra Lemon Juice
"Mai
mee bpunhaa", as the Thai’s would say. This means “No problem”.
Lotsa
Love
CarolC