Monday, August 23, 2010

Tom Yum Goong : Thai popular food (cuisine recipes)

Tom Yum Goong. Thai Hot and Sour Soup with prawns.

Tom Yum is a very popular food in Thailand. Foreigners tend to know as Tom Yum Goong (Thai Hot and Sour Soup with prawns). All foreigners who visit Thailand often order Tom Yum Goong menu. Tom Yum Goong is a kind of soup that are hot and sour taste. Thai People favor to eat Tom Yum Goong with rice. In addition to prawns, Tom Yum can also enter other types of meat such as pork, chicken or fish variety.



Vegetables which need to put in Tom Yum, including lemon grass, galangal root, kiffir’s lime leaves and use lime juice, bird’s eye chily, sugar and fish sauce to seasoning. You can also include other vegetables such as tomato or mushroom (as straw mushroom or Sajor-caju mushroom).

Tom Yum Goong’s taste is hot and sour with salt (by fish sauce) and little sweet. In addition you can add Nam Prik Pao to have intense taste or add milk or coconut milk to have a silky taste that often called Tom Yum Goong Nam Khon.

As the well known that the Tom Yum Goong is very popular for foreigners. So, I will tell you how to make Tom Yum Goong.

Ingredients : (For 2 Serving)
1. Fresh peeled prawns 200 grams (7 oz.) (Can decrease as size of fresh prawns)
2. Straw mushroom 100 grams (3.5 oz.) (Slice 4 split.)
3. 2 Cups of water.
4. 2 Pieces of pounded fresh Lemon grass
5. 2 Slices of galangal root
6. Piece of pounded Coriander root
7. Kaffir lime leaves 3 leaves
8. 10-15 Pounded Bird's eye chilies (Can decrease as spicy as you can eat)
9. Fish sauce 5 tbsp.
10. Lime juice 5 tbsp.
11. 4 Fresh coriander leaves

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