Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken tom yam / tom yum. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Chicken Tom yam / tom yum is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chicken Tom yam / tom yum is something that I have loved my entire life.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Get A. Soup Base
- Get 1 long stalk of lemongrass
- Prepare 1 big brown onion
- Make ready 1 inch galangal/ginger - sliced & crushed
- Get 2 garlic - crushed
- Get 2 big red chillies
- Prepare 10 small bird eyes chillies
- Get 5-6 kaffir lime leaves
- Prepare B. Protein
- Make ready 600 g chicken - cut into bite size or to your preference
- Take C. Veggies
- Make ready 1⁄2 C baby corn
- Take 1⁄2 C cherry tomatoes
- Get 1⁄2 C mushroom (black fungus or oyster)
- Make ready D. Seasoning
- Get 1 lemon - juiced (adjust and taste)
- Make ready 1⁄2 tsp - 1 tsp sugar or as needed
- Take 2-3 tbsp fish sauce
- Take 2 tsp chicken seasoning powder
- Prepare (Usually use KNORR brand)
- Take Note:
- 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)
- Take 👉🏻 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
- Prepare (Use only the broth)
- Get 👉🏻 For #SEAFOOD tomyam, just replace chicken with peeled prawn and cut squid
- Prepare 👉🏻 For #VEGETARIAN tomyam, substitute protein with 1 carrot (sliced), 1 cup of cut cauliflower floret, 1 cup of cut leafy green & black fungus/mushroom
- Prepare Replace fish sauce with soy sauce or Worcestershire Sauce, and use salt instead of chicken seasoning powder
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:
- 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.
- 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. Use the oil to make Tom Yum Soup. Other than oyster mushrooms, you can also use straw mushrooms or white mushrooms.
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