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Thai Chicken and Coconut Soup (Tom Kha Gai)

This soup is excellent. It is both refreshing with its citrus and coconut tones and warming.


Vitnamese spring rolls filled with shrimps and vegetables




 

You will need

2 cups chicken broth

3 cups coconut milk

6 kaffir lime leaves, remove the central stem

2 inches galangal, thinly sliced (no need to peel)

3 ½ tablespoon freshly squeezed lime juice

2 ½ tbsp + 1 tbsp fish sauce

1 tbsp finely chopped palm sugar

2 tsp Thai chili paste

3 Birds Eye chilies, roughly sliced (seeds removed for less heat if desired)

1 lemongrass stalk, use only the lower pale part bruised with the back of a knife and sliced into 2 cm pieces

1.1 lbs chicken fillet, thinly sliced

5.3 oz mushrooms, thinly sliced


For serving

2 scallions, thinly sliced or chopped

Freshly chopped cilantro

Jasmine rice


 

How to make it



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