Thai Chicken Tom Yum

I cook this many times already. It's my favourite when I feel like to eat chicken soup. I usually use fresh ingredients from my garden. This recipe is so healthy that you do not need cooking oil at all. Basically it just about boiling the ingredients and follow the measurements of the ingredients and your soup will turn out perfect.

This meal is a perfect flu shot or consume it if you feel like having a fever. It will make you sweat and feel good as soon as soup enters your chest.

Recipe type : Main meal, lunch or dinner
Cuisine :Thai
Yield / Serves : 4
Prep time : 50 mins

Ingredients:
Item A
Chicken stock - 1 litter

Item B
Chicken - chopped 1 kg

Item C
Shallot - 2 nos
Dried chilies - 10 nos
Tomato - 2 big tomatoes
Kaffir lime leaves - medium 6 nos
Galanggal - chopped - 2 tbsp
Lemon grass - 2 nos
Mushroom - 100 gm, does not matter how much. It does not effect the soup

Item D
Salt - 1 tsp
Fish sauce - 1 tbsp
Light soy sauce - 1 tsp
Kaffir lime juice - 2 tbsp
Tamarind juice - 2 tbsp

Item E
Chopped cilantro or coriander for garnishing

Method :
1. Boil chicken stock for 15 minutes. Add chicken and leave for 5 minutes.
2. Add item C and leave for 10 minutes
3. Add item D, stir and leave for 5 minutes. Garnish item E on top of you soup and turn off the stove.

Tom Yum Recipe. 2 in 1

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Today recipe is special because a close friend of mine asked me how to make tom yum step by step. FYI this tom yum is so tasty. Won't get anything like this anywhere. And don't forget, please read Step 10 carefully!

The ingredients and method :

1. Boil 4 cups of water. Add in 2 lemongrass, 1 chopped onion, 2 peeps of garlics, 1 tsp chopped ginger, 8 bird's eye chilies, 1/2 cup chopped potato. Let it boil for 5 minutes.

2. Add Chinese cabbage, 1 chopped large tomato and 1 chopped tomato. Stir well and leave for  1 minute.

3. Add the 1/2 cup mackerel fish fillet, 8 prawns, 1 chopped squid (not in the picture). Let it boil for  3 minutes.

4. Add the 2 1/2 tbsp Tom yum paste, 1 1/2 tbsp Thai chili paste and 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce. Leave to boil for another 3 minutes. Stir well until fragrant and the soup has thicken.

5.  And lastly add the 6 kaffir lime leaves, 1 tbsp brown sugar and 1/2 tbsp salt.. Stir well.

6. Soup is ready.

7. In a soup bowl add the mee hoon and pour tom yum soup on it.

8. Cut the calamondin into half. Squiz  onto the soup.

9. And now your tom yum is ready to be eaten. 

10. As an addition you can add in button mushroom, fish cake, bean curd puff and etc. But it's not gonna taste like Thai tom yum anymore! This what you call Chinese tom yum style. Which serves in Chinese Yong Tau Foo Restaurant. Tom yum originated in Thailand, so it gotta be Thai!!  Tom yum should just without this process foods. I included them in the picture so you can decide whether to make Thai tom yum or Chinese tom yum style! 2 in 1 recipe indeed!