Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's kitchen we are going to start this Thai series
off with that quintessential recipe from Thailand Tom Yum Soup. Now a lot of
those soups will start with a paste of some sort but we're going to go with fresh
ingredients. Now just come down here we have got fresh prawns because this is going to
be a Tom Yum Goong and I got lovely prawns at the market the other day we're
going to be using shallots and Chili and lemon grass and galangal and kaffir
lime leaves and of course some coriander and some mushrooms as well. Going to
pack flavor into the soup let's get on and make Tom Yum Goong.
So what I've done with my prawn is I peeled off the central shell but I'm
leaving the head and tail on because that's going to add great flavor to our
stock we do want to take a little sharp knife and cut down the back of the prawn
and then just pull out the intestinal tract from the inside we don't want that
in there now let's prep our stock. Now I've got about a liter of water and I've got
fresh galangal. Now take the skin off otherwise it oxidizes and makes the
water go a little bit brown we just can roughly chopped this up and then
we're just going to drop that into our boiling water with my fresh lemongrass
we just want to slice this up roughly now the smell of that lemon grass is
delicious that goes in there as well
I've got red and green chillies here I'm just going to roughly cut these up I'm going to leave the
seeds in as well I'm probably going to use two or three red chillies because this is
after all a spicy dish, chilis in the water and the green chili as well seeds and all
now you can use dried chili it's perfectly fine now I've also got some little
shallots here I'm just going to chop these up very roughly into the pan with
the shallots and Kaffir lime is one of the most important ingredients and really
just going to tear these up and we're just going to pop those in as well so we're just
going to let that simmer away for a couple of minutes to let all those
beautiful aromatic flavours enhance our stock. If you follow my vlog videos as
well you will see some funny behind the scenes stuff because the chilis got
little bit hot in this room now come down here now once it's simmered for a
little while we're just going to take our prawns I've got about eighteen I think I'm
just going to slide those in don't forget we've got the head on there as well to add
flavor see they're going pink already and the next key ingredients are lovely
little oyster mushrooms just pop those in there now all the ingredients for
this will be on my blog as well I'm going to take a little fresh coriander
just dice that up very coarsely not all of it I'm going to save some for the finishing
touches just pop some of that in there as well
now barely a couple of minutes just to let the prawns cook through
after a minute or so I want to add about a tablespoon of fish sauce I'm just going to
put that into my ladle you can taste the soup now and start to feel what the
flavors are going to be like I'm also going to take the lime juice from some fresh
limes and hopefully you've got some bigger limes than this but I'm going to use
three or four of these I'm just going to squeeze the juice in their catch the
pips. I'm also going to add a little more fish sauce this is the time you want to taste
and adjust the flavors that's coming really good, so there you have it beautiful and
fresh Tom Yum soup and I'll just put some fresh coriander on the top there
now
forgive me using a regular spoon but I just wanted to give this a try
man o man that is packed full of flavor the chilis in this were really strong but
they're not overpowering the flavours are great of course I got my wonderful fresh
prawns in there as well so if you want to recreate a lovely delicious authentic
Tom Yum soup where you are
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taking on another Thai classic. Be good see you there.
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