Chicken Tom yam / tom yum

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The flavors in Thai Tom Yum chicken are so incredible, this dish will fast become one of your dinner favorites. Although you can also buy a pre-made Tom Yum paste in stores, a homemade paste is infinitely superior because all the herbs and spices are fresh, not packaged or preserved. It sounds complicated, but it isn't. Chicken tom yum soup is a fragrant Thai soup, based on a spicy, clear chicken broth.

Chicken Tom yam / tom yum is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chicken Tom yam / tom yum is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken tom yam / tom yum using 27 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tom yam / tom yum:
  1. Take A. Soup Base
  2. Make ready 1 long stalk of lemongrass
  3. Make ready 1 big brown onion
  4. Get 1 inch galangal/ginger - sliced & crushed
  5. Prepare 2 garlic - crushed
  6. Prepare 2 big red chillies
  7. Get 10 small bird eyes chillies
  8. Take 5-6 kaffir lime leaves
  9. Prepare B. Protein
  10. Get 600 g chicken - cut into bite size or to your preference
  11. Prepare C. Veggies
  12. Get 1⁄2 C baby corn
  13. Take 1⁄2 C cherry tomatoes
  14. Take 1⁄2 C mushroom (black fungus or oyster)
  15. Prepare D. Seasoning
  16. Get 1 lemon - juiced (adjust and taste)
  17. Prepare 1⁄2 tsp - 1 tsp sugar or as needed
  18. Make ready 2-3 tbsp fish sauce
  19. Take 2 tsp chicken seasoning powder
  20. Prepare (Usually use KNORR brand)
  21. Take Note:
  22. Prepare 👉🏻 For a popular red and creamier soup, add splash of coconut cream/coconut milk, 1 tbsp of chili paste (or adjust to your liking) and broth of your choice (chicken, vegetable or prawn)
  23. Make ready 👉🏻 Prawn broth - use prawn head, clean, eyes removed (or leave them), cook in a pot with enough water covering the heads. Bring to boil. Then leave to cool. Blend with 1-2 C of water. Strain. Done
  24. Get (Use only the broth)
  25. Get 👉🏻 For #SEAFOOD tomyam, just replace chicken with peeled prawn and cut squid
  26. Make ready 👉🏻 For #VEGETARIAN tomyam, substitute protein with 1 carrot (sliced), 1 cup of cut cauliflower floret, 1 cup of cut leafy green & black fungus/mushroom
  27. Prepare Replace fish sauce with soy sauce or Worcestershire Sauce, and use salt instead of chicken seasoning powder

Chef Da's Thai cooking recipe - Chicken Tom Yum You can use chicken stock for tom yum gai (chicken tom yum soup), but it is unappetizing to use water as it lacks flavor. Store-bought chicken broth (in packets) is the next best thing but is not authentic since it is added with other ingredients targeted for western cuisine. Tom Yum or Tom Yam refers to the spicy, hot and sour soup made in Thailand, the main components of which are: galangal, shallots, garlic, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaf, tamarind, palm sugar and red chillies. The ingredients are crushed and fried to a paste.

Instructions to make Chicken Tom yam / tom yum:
  1. Preparation - lemongrass is cut into 8-10cm. Crush or bruise. Brown onion and big red chili are then sliced. Crush bird eye chillies and garlic. Slice and bruise galangal or ginger. Wash kaffir lime leaves. Cut and wash chicken and prep the veggies.
  2. Next, put everything (A, B and C) in a stock pot. Add enough water to cover everything inside the pot. Cover and cook over medium heat until it boils. Season with D. Taste and adjust. Simmer until chicken is tenderly cooked. Serve warm and garnish with some chopped cilantro or coriander.

Tom Yum or Tom Yam refers to the spicy, hot and sour soup made in Thailand, the main components of which are: galangal, shallots, garlic, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaf, tamarind, palm sugar and red chillies. The ingredients are crushed and fried to a paste. Tom Yum Fried Rice uses this paste to give the rice its distinct flavor. Saute the chicken and/or tofu, onion (not the green onions), half each of the ginger and lemongrass until the chicken is only a little bit pink and the onion translucent. Add the stock, fish sauce, remaining ginger and lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, and (optional) serrano chilies.

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