Soup Thai "Tom Yam": recipe, photo

Anyone who has visited Thailand has already tried Thai soup with coconut milk Tom Yam. If you do not know this dish, then in our article you will learn about it.

Thai soup Tom Yam with shrimps is the most poignant in the whole world. A lot of research has been done that showed that the dish is an excellent cancer prevention. It is because of this dish that Thai people rarely suffer from such a disease.

This Thai soup is offered at any cafe and restaurant in Thailand, as well as in many other countries of Southeast Asia. In this case, each cook makes a correction in the dish: adds or removes the ingredient, increases or decreases the amount of some component.

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

The basis of an acute Thai soup

It is very important that quality ingredients are used to prepare the dish. The basis of soup is a sharp chili paste. You can do it yourself. Buy it in Russia it is difficult. It can only be brought from Thailand. It is sold either in packages or in cans. In packages usually there is a semi-finished product in which it is possible to add fragrant ingredients, such as: kaffir, galangal, lemongrass. The banks produce pure pasta for cooking.

Ingredients

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

So, the ingredients that come in Thai soup:

• Galangal is a kind of ginger. He is tough as a tree, his taste is sharp. Galangal can be noticed by ordinary ginger. You can use both fresh and ground from the bag, dried.
• Lemongrass - green stems (about 1 cm in diameter) with a lemon scent. Replace this component with lemon grass or a peel of lime or lemon.
• Kaffir (kaffir) - leaves from a lime tree of a dark green color. This tree is grown only because of them. You can replace the kaffir with leaves of room lemon.
• 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 a specific smell to it, and also to not pour in salt. The sauce has a rather original flavor, but in dishes it opens in a new way. Each dish, he gives a new taste. Replace fish sauce can be soy.
• Lime juice. It can easily be replaced with lemon juice.
• Straw mushrooms. They can be replaced by other species, for example, shiitake, champignons or oyster mushrooms.
• Shrimp. Required component. It is undesirable to replace it. You can, in addition to shrimp, use other seafood, such as octopus, squid and others.
• Coconut milk (or coconut cream). This component is optional. It is used to make one of the varieties of Thai soup with a softer taste, which is most likely intended for Europeans. If desired, this ingredient can be replaced with ordinary cream or milk. It is also possible to completely remove from the dish such a component.
• Chicken meat. This ingredient is optional. It is added to shrimp, in order to make the dish more nutritious, when there are few seafood in the dish.

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 by a more familiar alternative

What do you need for Tom Yam's paste?

If you did not buy the original paste, then you can do it yourself.

To prepare the paste, the following components will be required:

• One chili pepper (or any other pungent);
• One garlic;
• Shallot onion (can be replaced by a regular bulb);
• Ginger (the ingredient is optional, but it can still be added to the dish).

Preparation of pasta for soup

Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan, about three to four tablespoons. As you prepare, you can pour in more if it seems that the paste is too thick.

When the oil warms up, throw a few cloves of garlic, thinly sliced. It should be browned until golden brown. After catch the garlic, put it separately.

After throw in butter one middle head of the chopped onion (shallot or bulb). Also, soak in a frying pan until golden. After catch it, put it to the garlic.

Next in the same oil, add four or five pieces of chili pepper, cut into small pieces. Dry it a little in oil (minutes will be enough). After that, add the previously fried onions and garlic in the pan. There you can pour grated ginger. But this is optional.

Hold the mixture in the frying pan for a while, stirring constantly. Then remove from heat. Further, all finely grind in a blender. That's all, our pasta is ready. The consistency should be thick. Prepared mass for a long time does not deteriorate, you just need to store it in the refrigerator.

How to cook a Thai soup Tom Yam at home?

Now tell you how to prepare this dish. As a result, you will get two portions of Thai food, which will please fans of hot dishes.

Thai soup, a 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. You can use both natural broth, and in cubes.

In order for the broth to be more rich, add purified, washed shells and shrimp heads to it. Two portions will require about 0.5 liters of broth. Do not salt it, just add the fish sauce (1 tablespoon).

In the finished broth, add a piece of galangal with a thickness of seven millimeters (or ginger a piece of a half-centimeter thick). Further throw there kaffir (two leaves), a stick of lemongrass length of ten centimeters (or peel from one lemon).

The resulting mixture cook for about four minutes, so that the seasonings give their flavor and aroma. Then take out all the leaves, pieces and sticks, put them on a plate so they do not interfere.

The next stage of preparation of an acute soup

Next, without removing the broth from the fire, add the paste. The amount of it depends on how much the spicy dish you want to get. For two servings of soup, one tablespoon with a slide will be enough.

Even when all the ingredients are added to the Thai soup, try the dish, if necessary, then throw some more pasta in the dish.

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

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

The last stage of preparation of fragrant and tasty soup

A few minutes before the removal, add a small, half-cut onion (peeled, of course), a garlic slice. If you want to further diversify the taste, then throw another tomato. You can use as a pair of slices of the usual tomato, and cut into two halves of cherry.

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

Ready soup is poured on plates, from above it sprinkles with greens. Next, add a teaspoon of lemon or lime juice.

I would also like to say that the prepared pasta can be used not only in the cooking process, but also for creating other dishes. Pasta is also allowed to add to ready-made meals, for example, in pasta.

A small conclusion

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