Almost every country has a first course, which is considered national. In Thailand, this is Tom Yam soup with coconut milk. It is prepared most often from shrimp and other seafood, but can also be made from chicken meat. It has a sharp taste and a unique aroma that won the hearts of many gourmets. There are many recipes for cooking Tom Yam soup, as all the hostesses in Thailand cook it in their own way, but all the options are simple. If you want to cook Thai soup at home, then you can safely tackle this business: even a novice cook can perfectly cope with the task.
Cooking Features
The technology of cooking the famous Thai soup is simple: dilute spicy pasta with water or broth, boil it, boil seafood, adding mushrooms and spices. The main difficulty lies in finding the right ingredients. Some features of cooking are also worth considering.
- The unique taste and aroma of the soup is largely due to the bouquet of spices and spices that are put into it. This is Tom Yam spicy pasta, reminiscent of a mixture of pepper paste and garlic, lemongrass, galangal root, fish sauce, ginger, lime leaves. Most of these components are not found on the shelves of Russian stores, they have to be ordered via the Internet. It is easier not to collect a suitable bouquet of exotic spices for our latitudes, but to purchase a box with the ingredients already selected for making soup - such packages are sold in many large stores.
- Unusual products for us in the composition of Tom Yam soup can often be replaced by well-known and accessible ones, the taste of the finished dish will hardly suffer from this. Instead of lime leaves, you can take lemon zest, lemongrass looks like lemongrass, the root of galangal resembles ginger, the role of fish sauce will be successfully performed by soy.
- The soup Tom Yam most often consists of mushrooms. You can take not only a straw mushroom, which is called in a number of classic recipes, but also oyster mushrooms and champignons. It is not recommended to replace them with forest mushrooms, as their bright aroma will clog the smell of other ingredients that really should dominate.
- For the preparation of traditional soup Tom Yam, tiger shrimps are taken, sometimes the recipe includes crabs and lobsters. Expensive seafood can be replaced with cheaper ones: small shrimps, crab sticks. It will affect the appearance and taste of the dish, but only the true connoisseur of oriental cuisine will notice the difference.
- Some replace coconut milk with medium-fat cream. It almost does not affect the taste of the finished soup.
Knowing the secrets of cooking Tom Yam soup, you can make this recognized masterpiece of Thai cuisine at home.
Tom Yam classic soup recipe
Composition:
- chicken broth - 2 l;
- tiger shrimps (chishchennye) - 0, 3 kg;
- chili pepper - 0, 5 pcs .;
- fresh champignons - 0, 2 kg;
- Tom Yam pasta - 20 ml;
- sugar - 20 g;
- fish sauce - 40 ml;
- tomato - 150 g;
- coconut milk - 80 ml;
- lime leaf - 10 pcs .;
- ginger root - 20 g;
- galangal root - 20 g;
- Lemongrass - 20 g;
- fresh cilantro -100 g;
- lime - 1 pc.
Method of preparation:
- Lemongrass wash. Pat dry with a napkin. Lightly tap on it with the handle of the knife. Cut into pieces of 1, 5-2 cm.
- Peel ginger and galangal. If you use only ginger, take 60 g. Cut each root into 4 pieces, cut into thin plastics.
- Pepper wash, cut in half, remove the seeds. Chop half the pod with a knife as finer as possible.
- Wash and blot mushrooms and tomatoes with a napkin. Cut the champignons into 6-8 pieces each, cut the tomato into the same number of slices.
- If you do not have Tom Yam paste, crush a few cloves of garlic, turn the rest of the hot pepper through a meat grinder, and mix them.
- Clean shrimp if necessary.
- Boil the broth. Put lemongrass, lime leaves or half a lemon into a slice of dried zest, chopped roots. Simmer for 15 minutes.
- Put garlic-pepper paste in broth, mix.
- Cook for 5 minutes, add shrimps and mushrooms. Boil for 2-3 minutes.
- Add fish or soy sauce, sugar, chili pepper pieces. Squeeze the juice from the whole lime or half a lemon into the broth. Cook the soup for 5 minutes.
- Add one spoonful of coconut milk, waiting a minute after adding each serving.
- Remove the soup pot from the heat, put chopped cilantro greens and tomato slices into it. Cover the pan with a lid, let the soup stand for 15 minutes.
Bread to Tom Yam soup is not accepted. It can be replaced with boiled rice, putting it on the table in a separate bowl.
Tom Yam soup from a special soup base
Composition:
- Soup base Tom Yam - 1 pack;
- water - 2 l;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- oyster mushrooms - 150 g;
- king prawns (peeled) - 100 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- cherry tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- coconut milk - 80 ml;
- lime - 1 pc .;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Free the onions from the husk, cut into small cubes.
- Cut the tomatoes in half or 4 pieces.
- Cut the garlic cloves into thin plates.
- Cut the shrimp into several pieces.
- Cut the mushrooms into small pieces.
- Pour oil on the bottom of the pan.
- Put the pan on the fire.
- When the oil warms slightly, add onion and garlic to it, fry until golden brown.
- Put the tomatoes, squeeze lime juice on them, lightly fry.
- Fill the vegetables with water, bring it to a boil.
- Add the contents of a special set, cook for 10 minutes.
- Put the mushrooms and shrimp. Boil another 5 minutes.
- Add coconut milk, boil the soup for 5 minutes, remove from heat.
- Insist on a quarter-hour cover.
If you managed to get a special set for cooking Tom Yam soup, then you will not have any difficulties when cooking Thai first course.
Tom Yam Chicken Soup
Composition:
- chicken fillet - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh champignons - 150 g;
- pepper paste - 60 ml;
- bitter capsicum - 2 pcs .;
- lime - 0, 5 pcs .;
- ginger root - 20 g;
- Lemongrass - 20 g;
- soy sauce - 20 ml;
- sugar - 5 g;
- coconut milk - 80 ml;
- water - 1, 5 l.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the chicken fillet, cut into small pieces.
- Finely chop the peppers by removing the seeds from the pods.
- Mushrooms, washed and dried with a napkin, cut into plates.
- Squeeze juice out of half lime.
- Cut ginger and lemongrass into small pieces.
- Dilute the pepper paste with water, put on fire.
- When it boils, put lemongrass and ginger. Boil 5 minutes.
- Add sugar, soy sauce, lime juice, cook for another 2-3 minutes.
- Dip the chicken and mushrooms, slices of hot pepper into the pan.
- After 10 minutes, add coconut milk, mix. Continue cooking the soup for 5-10 minutes - until the chicken is completely cooked.
The soup for this recipe is especially hot. If you are not accustomed to Thai cuisine, the number of burning ingredients should be reduced by 2-3 times.
Tom Yam Soup with Seafood
Composition:
- sea cocktail - 0.5 kg;
- water - 2 l;
- onions - 100 g;
- tomatoes - 0, 4 kg;
- oyster mushrooms - 100 g;
- Lemongrass - 20 g;
- galangal root - 30 g (or 50 g of ginger root);
- ginger root - 20 g (in addition to galangal);
- lemongrass leaves - 10 pcs .;
- coconut milk - 120 ml;
- chili pepper - 1 pc .;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- salt, ground red pepper (spicy) - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Finely chop the pepper pod, garlic cloves, galangal and ginger roots.
- Heat a spoonful of butter in a pan. Fry the chopped ingredients in it.
- Add more oil, reduce heat, then sweat for 5 minutes.
- Pound spices in a mortar.
- Coarsely chop the onions and tomatoes.
- Cut the mushrooms into strips.
- Dilute the hot pasta with water, bring to a boil.
- Put lemongrass and lemongrass leaves in a saucepan. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle seafood, add mushrooms, onions
- Boil 10 minutes after the soup boils again.
- Put the tomatoes, pour coconut milk, cook the soup for a few more minutes and remove from the heat.
The number and ratio of seafood in the soup can be varied to your own taste.
Tom Yam soup - one of the most famous Thai dishes in the world. It has a unique taste, spicy and at the same time soft due to its coke milk. Even an inexperienced housewife can cook the soup.
