Thai soup "Tom Yam": recipe, photo

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Those who have visited Thailand have already tasted Thai soup with coconut milk Tom Yum. If you are not familiar with this dish, then in our article you will learn about it.

Thai soup Tom Yum with shrimp is the spiciest soup in the whole world. There have been many studies that have shown that the dish is an excellent cancer prevention. It is because of this dish that Thais rarely suffer from such a disease.

This Thai soup is offered in any cafe and restaurant in Thailand, as well as in many other countries of Southeast Asia. At the same time, each chef makes some adjustment to the dish: adds or removes an ingredient, increases or decreases the amount of some component.

There are several varieties of soup: with shrimp, fish, chicken and seafood.

Spicy Thai soup base

It is very important that high-quality ingredients are used to prepare the dish. The base of the soup is spicy chili paste. You can do it yourself. It is difficult to buy it in Russia. It can only be brought from Thailand. It is sold either in bags or in cans. The packages usually contain a semi-finished product, in which aromatic ingredients can be added, such as: kaffir, galangal, lemongrass. Banks issue netcooking pasta.

Ingredients

Now we need to describe the ingredients that go into the soup. We will also tell you what can be replaced if they are not available.

So, the ingredients that go into Thai soup:

• galangal is a type of ginger. It is hard like wood and has a sharp taste. Galangal can be seen with ordinary ginger. You can use both fresh and ground from a bag, dried.
• lemongrass - green stems (about 1 cm in diameter) with a lemon scent. You can replace this component with lemongrass or lime or lemon peel.
• Kaffir (kaffir) - leaves from the lime tree of dark green color. This tree is grown only because of them. You can replace kaffir with indoor lemon leaves.
• Cilantro (coriander). Used to add flavor. In the winter season, frozen grass is added. You can also use seeds as a substitute.
• Fish sauce. It is added to Thai soup to give it a specific smell, and also not to add s alt. The sauce has quite original aromas, but in dishes it opens in a new way. It adds a new flavor to every dish. Soy sauce can be substituted for fish sauce.
• Lime juice. It can be easily replaced with lemon juice.
• Straw mushrooms. They can be replaced with other types, such as shiitake, champignons or oyster mushrooms.
• Shrimp. Required component. It is not recommended to replace it. You can, in addition to shrimp, use other seafood such as octopus, squid andothers.
• Coconut milk (or coconut cream). This component is optional. It is used to make a milder type of Thai soup that is most likely intended for Europeans. If desired, this ingredient can be replaced with regular cream or milk. You can also completely remove such a component from the dish.
• Chicken meat. This ingredient is optional. It is added to shrimp in order to make the dish more satisfying when there is little seafood in the food.

As you can see, before you cook Thai soup, you need to stock up on the necessary ingredients. All of them are quite specific, but if desired, they can be replaced with a more familiar alternative

What do you need for Tom Yum pasta?

If you didn't buy the original pasta, you can make your own.

To make the pasta you will need the following ingredients:

• one chili pepper (or any other hot one);
• one garlic;
• shallots (can be replaced with regular onions);
• ginger (This ingredient is optional but can still be added to the dish.)

Cooking pasta for soup

Pour vegetable oil into the pan, about three to four tablespoons. You can add more as it cooks if the pasta seems too thick.

When the oil is hot, throw in a few garlic cloves, thinly sliced. It should fry until golden brown. After fish outgarlic, put it separately.

After throw one medium head of chopped onion (shallot or onion) into the oil. Also soak in a pan until golden. After you fish it out, put it on the garlic.

Further in the same oil, add four to five pieces of chili pepper, cut into small pieces. Dry it a little in oil (a minute will be enough). Then add the previously fried onion and garlic to the pan. You can also add grated ginger there. But this is optional.

Slightly hold the mixture in the pan, stirring constantly. Then remove from heat. Next, finely grind everything in a blender. That's it, our pasta is ready. The consistency should be thick. The cooked mass does not spoil for a long time, you just need to store it in the refrigerator.

How to make Thai Tom Yum soup at home?

Now we will tell you how this dish is prepared. The result is two portions of Thai food that will delight lovers of spicy food.

Thai soup, the photo of which is presented in the article, is prepared on fish or chicken broth. Although the easiest way, of course, is to cook on chicken. Can be used as a natural broth or in cubes.

To make the broth richer, add peeled, washed shells and shrimp heads to it. For two servings, approximately 0.5 liters of broth will be required. Don't s alt it, just add fish sauce (1 tbsp).

In the finished broth, add a piece of galangal seven millimeters thick (or a piece of ginger one and a half centimeters thick). Next, throw in kaffir (two leaves), a stick of lemongrass ten centimeters long (or the zest from one lemon).

Boil the resulting mixture for about four minutes so that the seasonings give their taste and aroma. Then take out all the leaves, pieces and sticks, put them on a plate so as not to interfere.

The next step in making spicy soup

Next, without removing the broth from the fire, add the pasta. The amount of it depends on how spicy the dish in the end you want to get. One heaping tablespoon will suffice for two servings of soup.

Already when absolutely all the ingredients are added to the Thai soup, try the dish, if necessary, throw a little more pasta into the dish.

So, back to cooking. Now the moment has come when you need to throw all the prepared ingredients into the Thai soup, namely: mushrooms (4 pcs), one chili pepper, peeled shrimp and other seafood (400 grams), chicken meat (100 grams), pre-cut into pieces. Also pour fish sauce (1 tablespoon) into the dish. Of course, you can not add some ingredients, because each person has his own tastes, but our soup will definitely not work without mushrooms and shrimp.

If you want the dish to taste a little softer, especially if you put a lot of pasta, add coconut cream or milk (about 100 ml). Then cook the dish for five to seven minutes.

The last step in making fragrant and delicious soup

A few minutes before removing, adda small onion cut in half (peeled, of course), a clove of garlic. If you want to diversify the taste even more, then throw in another tomato. You can use either a couple of slices of a regular tomato or a cherry cut into two halves.

That's it, Thai Tom Yum soup is ready. The recipe for this dish is not easy. But every housewife will cope with it if desired.

The finished soup is poured into bowls, it is sprinkled with herbs on top. Next, add a teaspoon of lemon or lime juice.

I would also like to say that cooked pasta can be used not only in the cooking process, but also to create other dishes. Pasta is also allowed to be added to ready-made dishes, such as pasta.

Small conclusion

Now you know how to cook Tom Yam Thai soup, the recipe presented in the article will help you. We hope that you will be able to prepare a spicy dish in your kitchen.