If you decide to dine in different places in Thailand, you will never meet the same taste of Tom Yam. This exotic spicy soup is so multifaceted that no Thai can cook it in the strict framework of a single recipe. We do not pretend to be a work of art, because in order to be able to cook a real Tom Yam, you need to be born in this sunny country and absorb this taste with the milk of a moon-faced mother. We will just try to get closer to the amazing gastronomic masterpiece and create a delicious copy of it.

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  • Recipe author: Olsan Uvarova
  • After cooking you will receive 2
  • Cooking time: 30 min

Ingredients

  • 200 gr tiger shrimps
  • 400 gr chicken broth
  • 400 ml coconut milk
  • 15 ml fish sauce
  • 2 pcs. lime leaves
  • 25 gr butter
  • 40 gr lemongrass stalk
  • 20 gr galangal
  • 3 gr chili pepper
  • 200 gr tomatoes
  • 250 gr champignons
  • 15 gr tomato paste
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1/8 tsp Tabasco sauce
  • 1 PC. lime
  • cilantro

Cooking method

    What you need to know about the ingredients:
    - Galangal is a type of spicy ginger. In many supermarkets you can find ready-made sets for Thai soup. If this ingredient is not found, it can be replaced with ginger root.
    - Lemongrass is a lemongrass with a pronounced tart citrus flavor. You can substitute lemon zest.
    - Kaffir - lime leaves. You can substitute lemon leaves.
    - Shrimps. Shrimps of the langutin variety are suitable, Tiger chrimp, royal. You can add other seafood if you like.
    - Shiitake mushrooms / champignons / oyster mushrooms. Any of the above will work.
    - Fish sauce. Can be substituted for soy sauce.
    - Lime. Can be substituted for lemon.
    - Coconut milk. Added to soften the spicy taste. There are many soup recipes where the addition of milk is optional.
    - Tom Yum spicy pasta. One of the most inaccessible products in our country, so in the recipe we will replace it with a mixture tomato paste with Tabasco sauce, garlic and chili pepper.

    Prepare the broth. In a saucepan, combine chicken broth, coconut milk, fish sauce and kaffir/lime leaves. Send the broth to medium heat.

    Melt in a frying pan butter and fry the lemongrass stalks and galangal for 2 minutes. Optionally, these ingredients can be chopped to bring out the flavor, or fried whole so they don't fall into the spoon while eating. Add a couple of chili rings. Pour the contents of the pan into the broth and wait for it to boil.

    Cut the tomatoes into medium cubes and fry for a couple of minutes in a pan until half soft. Send to boiling broth.

    Wash mushrooms and cut into small plates. Send the mushrooms to the broth.

    Season the soup with a mixture of tomato paste with finely chopped pepper, minced garlic and a few drops of Tabasco sauce. Don't go overboard with the pepper and Tabasco sauce, keep your soup hot and add the hot mixture in batches. Peel shrimp from shells and vertebral intestines, add to boiling soup and cook for 5 minutes. Wash the cilantro, tear coarsely with your hands and add to the soup, squeeze the juice of one lime and salt if desired, and then remove the pan from the stove.

    Tom Yum ready!

    Enjoy your meal!

Tom Yum. If you are not familiar with this dish, then in our article you will learn about it.

Thai soup Tom Yum with shrimp is the spiciest in the whole world. There have been many studies that have shown that the dish is an excellent cancer prevention. It is because of this dish that Thais rarely suffer from such a disease.

This Thai soup is offered in any cafe and restaurant in Thailand, as well as in many other countries. South-East Asia. At the same time, each cook makes some adjustment to the dish: adds or removes an ingredient, increases or decreases the amount of a component.

There are several varieties with fish, chicken and seafood.

The basis of spicy Thai soup

It is very important that high-quality ingredients are used to prepare the dish. The base of the soup is spicy chili paste. You can do it yourself. It is difficult to buy it in Russia. It can only be brought from Thailand. It is sold either in bags or in cans. The packages usually contain a semi-finished product, in which aromatic ingredients can be added, such as: kaffir, galangal, lemongrass. The jars produce pure pasta for cooking.

Ingredients

Now you need to describe the ingredients that are included in the soup. We will also tell you what can be replaced if they are not available.

So, the ingredients that are included in the Thai soup:

  • galangal is a type of ginger. It is hard like wood and has a sharp taste. Galangal can be seen with ordinary ginger. You can use both fresh and ground from a bag, dried.
  • lemongrass - green stems (about 1 cm in diameter) with a lemon scent. You can replace this component with either lime or lemon peel.
  • Kaffir (kaffir) - leaves from a lime tree of dark green color. This tree is grown only because of them. You can replace kaffir with indoor lemon leaves.
  • cilantro (coriander). Used to add flavor. In the winter season, frozen grass is added. You can also use seeds as a substitute.
  • Fish sauce. It is added to Thai soup to give it a specific smell, and also not to add salt. The sauce has quite original aromas, but in dishes it opens in a new way. It adds a new flavor to every dish. Soy sauce can be substituted for fish sauce.
  • Lime juice. It can be easily replaced with lemon juice.
  • Straw mushrooms. They can be replaced with other types, such as shiitake, champignons or oyster mushrooms.
  • Shrimps. Required component. It is not recommended to replace it. You can, in addition to shrimp, use other seafood, such as octopus, squid and others.
  • Coconut milk (or This component is optional. It is used to make one of the varieties of Thai soup with more mild taste, which is most likely intended for Europeans. If desired, this ingredient can be replaced with regular cream or milk. You can also completely remove such a component from the dish.
  • Chicken meat. is optional. It is added to shrimp in order to make the dish more satisfying when there is little seafood in the dish.

As you can see, before you cook Thai soup, you need to stock up on the necessary ingredients. All of them are quite specific, but if desired, they can be replaced with a more familiar alternative.

What do you need for Tom Yum pasta?

If you did not buy the original pasta, then you can make it yourself.

To prepare the pasta, you will need the following ingredients:

  • one chili pepper (or any other hot);
  • one garlic;
  • shallots (can be replaced with regular onions);
  • ginger (an ingredient is optional, but can still be added to the dish).

for soup

Pour vegetable oil into the pan, about three to four tablespoons. You can add more as it cooks if the paste seems too thick.

When the oil is hot, throw in a few garlic cloves, thinly sliced. It should fry until golden brown. After you catch the garlic, put it separately.

Then throw one medium head of chopped onion (shallot or onion) into the oil. Also soak in a pan until golden. After you catch it, put it on the garlic.

Next, in the same oil, add four to five chili peppers, cut into small pieces. Dry it a little in oil (a minute will be enough). Then add the previously fried onion and garlic to the pan. You can also add grated ginger there. But this is optional.

Slightly hold the mixture in the pan, stirring constantly. Then remove from heat. Next, finely grind everything in a blender. That's it, our pasta is ready. The consistency should be thick. The prepared mass does not spoil for a long time, you just need to store it in the refrigerator.

How to cook Thai Tom Yum soup at home?

Now we will tell you how this dish is prepared. The result will be two servings of Thai food that will delight lovers of spicy dishes.

Thai soup, the photo of which is presented in the article, is prepared on fish or chicken broth. Although the easiest way, of course, is to cook on chicken. You can use both natural broth and in cubes.

In order for the broth to be richer, add peeled, washed shells and shrimp heads to it. Two servings will require approximately 0.5 liters of broth. Do not salt it, just add fish sauce (1 tbsp).

In the finished broth, add a piece of galangal with a thickness of seven millimeters (or a piece of ginger with a thickness of one and a half centimeters). Next, throw in kaffir (two leaves), a stick of lemongrass ten centimeters long (or zest from one lemon).

Boil the resulting mixture for about four minutes so that the seasonings give their taste and aroma. Then take out all the leaves, pieces and sticks, put them on a plate so as not to interfere.

The next step in cooking spicy soup

Already when absolutely all the ingredients are added to the Thai soup, try the dish, if necessary, throw some more pasta into the dish.

So, back to cooking. Now the moment has come when you need to throw all the prepared ingredients into the Thai soup, namely: mushrooms (4 pcs), one chili pepper, peeled shrimp and other seafood (400 grams), chicken meat (100 grams), pre-cut into pieces. Also pour fish sauce (1 tablespoon) into the dish. Of course, you can not add any ingredients, because each person has his own tastes, but without mushrooms and shrimp, our soup will definitely not work.

If you want the dish to taste a little softer, especially if you put a lot of pasta, add coconut cream or milk (about 100 ml). Then cook the dish for five to seven minutes.

The last step in preparing a fragrant and tasty soup

A few minutes before removing, add a small, halved onion (peeled, of course), a clove of garlic. If you want to diversify the taste even more, then throw in another tomato. You can use either a couple of slices of an ordinary tomato or a cherry cut into two halves.

That's it, ready Thai cooking is a tricky dish. But with it, if desired, every hostess will cope.

Ready soup is poured into plates, sprinkled with herbs on top. Next, add a teaspoon of lemon or lime juice.

I would also like to say that cooked pasta can be used not only in the cooking process, but also to create other dishes. Pasta is also allowed to be added to ready-made dishes, for example, pasta.

A small conclusion

Now you know how to cook Thai soup presented in the article will help you. We hope that you will be able to cook spicy food in your kitchen.

I will not be mistaken if I say that more than half of my readers have been to Thailand at least once. For the Far East, Thailand has generally become something like Egypt for the residents of Moscow - a quick flight, an inexpensive rest, there is something to see. And if you ask anyone about the dishes of this country, after listing outlandish fruits and berries, they will say "Soup tom yam."

Note to the owner.

Tom yam (Laos; Thai ต้มยำ,) - sour and spicy soup based on chicken broth with shrimp, chicken, fish or other seafood. The National dish Laos and Thailand. Also used in neighboring countries in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

Literally, the name of the soup consists of two Thai words "tom" and "yam". "Tom" (ต้ม) literally translates as "boil" or "boil". "Yam" (ยำ) - Thai spicy salad. Thus, in Thailand and Laos, "tom yam" means the common name for hot sour and spicy soups. For a more accurate name, a type of meat or broth is added at the end. “Tom yam kai” - tom yum with chicken, “tom yam thhale” - tom yum with seafood, “tom yam kai nam khon” - tom yum with chicken in coconut milk, and so on.

In neighboring countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as in restaurants around the world, the name "tom yum" is widely used to refer to various Thai spicy soups that can be very different from the original, which often causes confusion. Therefore, most have their own unique associations and taste impressions of this soup. Let's agree right away, we will make one of the variations of this soup, which, however, is very tasty, no matter what you call it.

If you carefully read a blog or instagram, then you know that I recently returned from Vladivostok, where I was visiting a restaurant. This is a chic complex of Pan-Asian cuisine, and where, if not here, to learn how to cook this cool dish. I confess that I did not try the soup in Thailand, although I was there 2 or 3 times. I tried it only in Russia, and according to my taste - in Zoom it is the most correct, it was this volume that evoked those taste reactions that are often described in various sources.

Tom yum is a moderately spicy soup with a characteristic lime sourness, coconut milk aroma and a pleasant combination of ingredients. The dish is very satisfying and at the same time does not leave heaviness. In general, we agree that Asians know a lot about such things.

Well, an important digression. I am giving original recipe soup of the Zuma restaurant, it is obvious that any replacement or rejection of some ingredients is acceptable, but the closer you get to the recipe, the more correct and probably tastier it will be ready meal. Now in many supermarkets you can find special sets (in the vegetable departments) for tom yum soup, just there there are all the necessary outlandish ingredients.

I will show the ingredients, because many in the comments ask.

lemongrass

Galanga

Shrimp sauce

lime leaves

First of all, the broth is prepared, for this, coconut milk (90 gr.), Chicken broth (15 gr.), Shrimp sauce (3 gr.), Water (120 gr.) are mixed in a saucepan. All this is heated over medium heat until small bubbles appear (the very first stage of boiling). Heated, mixed, lower the heat to a minimum and leave on the stove.

Next, heat the butter in a frying pan (16 gr.).

Add dried lemongrass (4 gr.), Cut into thin slices, galanga (5 gr., can be replaced with ginger), also chopped into pieces and a couple of lime leaves. Fry all this, stirring with a spatula, for 2 minutes.

Next, send shrimp (25 gr.), Scallop (20 gr.) And squid (25 gr.). All seafood must be cleaned, squids are cut into small squares. All this is fried until the shrimp turn red. If you use ready-made shrimp, then fry for 2 minutes, no more.

Cherry tomatoes (3 pcs.) Cut in half and also send to the pan. Fry for another minute and a half.

While the tomatoes are roasting, cut 2-3 green onion sprigs into short strips. And also add to all the ingredients.

After a minute, pour 220 grams of broth into the pan, which was next to it on the stove.

Add 6 grams of red spicy thick seasoning. It can be a spicy base for Tom Yum, Tabasco, Chili or Sriracha. And squeeze the juice of half a lime. Here's an important trick the boss told me. It turns out that with prolonged heating, lime juice loses its characteristic taste and aroma, which is why the juice is added at the very last moment.

The indicated amount of ingredients is enough for one serving of soup (about 350-400 gr.). The soup is insanely delicious and literally disappears from the plate. If you are planning to receive guests, the broth can be prepared in advance and kept in the refrigerator for a couple of days. And already at the arrival of the guests, prepare the fried ingredients, combine with the broth and serve.

With en Tom Yam and Thailand are synonyms. At least as soon as I got off the plane in Bangkok,
everyone just ate baldness - have you tried Tom Yum ?! Try it for sure!!
There are several variations of Tom Yam - the most popular are Tom Yam Kung (Goong) - with shrimp, Tom Kha Gai (Tom Yam with chicken) and Tom Nam Pla (with fish) and you can even
make a vegetarian tom yum soup without anything, just with vegetables.

Tom Yum Kung can be made with or without coconut milk. I love it with coconut milk, it makes the taste much softer and brighter.

Making Tom Yum Kung soup is easy and simple, even if you don't have most of the ingredients, it doesn't matter.
I will tell you how to cook Tom Yam soup not only in the original, but also with the products that are at hand in Russia.
So, let's begin!

Soup Tom Yum Kung with shrimps (tom yum goong) - a step by step recipe with a photo

I'm in Thailand now, so I have the ingredients for Tom Yum soup on hand, which are sold here in a set and are cheap, about 20-30 baht.

besides pasta mushrooms and milk - this is a set for tom yam in any Thai store - vegetables department

Even with them, you can already cook Tom Yum soup, but we will go further and add everything you need to Tom Yum Kung with shrimp (tom yum goong)
turned out right, just the way it should be.

I'll tell you right away. I do not pretend to be original in the recipe, but Tom Yam tastes like in my favorite Thai cafes - spicy and rich.

Soup Tom Yum Kung with shrimp (tom yum goong) - what ingredients are needed?

2 chicken breasts for the broth(can be replaced with anything)
200-300 grams of shrimp(I take peeled ones) - the more shrimp, the better.
kaffir lime- leaves
Galanga- can be replaced with ginger
Lemongrass - 3-4 stalks
1 small hot pepper(you can do if you don't like spicy)
lime- 1 piece
2 tomatoes
mushrooms- in the original there are shiitake, but you can replace it with any, even champignons (I had some king mushroom similar to our whites)
coconut milk(can be powdered)
fish sauce to taste (teaspoon)

Step one

Boil chicken broth.

I take 2 skinless chicken breasts. I cook for 30-40 minutes. I don't salt.
We take out the breasts, set aside.

step two

I cut the greens that I have:
kaffir lime leaves - it is better to take 1 leaf, otherwise it will be bitter. You can then take it out of the soup.

I cut the galanga, lemongrass (the lemongrass is similar to green onion, so only the white part is cut like onions)
tomatoes, mushrooms, lime, pepper.

"About Lemongrass" (sliced ​​lemongrass roots boiled in water are an excellent tonic drink,
which helps to increase blood pressure and relieve headaches, pain in the intestines and stomach with gastritis, I drink it myself
Always love the smell

We throw all this into the broth, put the soup on a small fire, cook.

Step Three

Boil the shrimp separately. We throw them to everything else in the soup.

Step Four

The soup is almost ready, it remains to add pasta for Tom Yam (a teaspoon, you can less)
mix, add salt to taste. Pour in 1-2 teaspoons of fish sauce to taste.
He is even cheap in Russia. You can substitute soy, but add just a little bit.

If you have powdered coconut milk, dilute it in a cup of cow's milk, pre-warmed but not boiled.
Add milk to the soup, but do not boil!!! Otherwise it will turn.
I have liquid coconut milk, bought for 20 baht at the nearest 7 eleven.

Liquid milk in a medium saucepan needs 2-3 tablespoons. Do not be zealous, the color of the soup should remain orange.

Mix, try, mmm!! You can eat!

Now about how to cook Tom Yum Kung Soup with shrimp (tom yum goong) - in Russian conditions, when
there are no such frills as kaffir lime.

Of course, to make soup Tom Yum Kung Soup, and not just soup, you need to have at least Tom Yum pasta or
powder - seasoning for Tom Yam. They are sold in shops with Japanese goods or order for those who travel to Thailand.
If none of this is available, and you really want Tom Yam, you can make pasta by mixing finely chopped chili with ketchup.
It won't be exactly the same, but it looks like it. Replace kaffir lime with lime zest.

Pasta in Thailand is cheap.

Family Mart sells Tom Yum pasta in bags, it costs 17 baht.

There are a lot of such pastes, I prefer mine, which is in the picture, I bought it in the department store of the central festival, no more than 30 baht.
Usually on such pastas either soup is depicted, or at least it is written - Tom Yam Pasta

So, let's imagine that you have pasta.
Then you add only pasta + tomatoes + coconut milk + mushrooms and shrimp. It turns out not worse.

If you don't have shrimp, add chicken and you'll have tom kha gai soup. Which is also very tasty!

Be careful with pasta. she is VERY sharp. So sometimes a teaspoon is too much.

What variants of Tom Yum soup have I met here?
Soup Tom Yam from the "homeless package" in our doshirak, in Thai firms - mom :))
By the way, absolutely edible.

And already Ready Tom Yam in packages of 200 and 400 ml. A poison that cannot be eaten.
Being in Thailand, it makes no sense to buy such a burda, because a normal soup is cooked in 40-50 minutes maximum, and if
you have a ready-made broth, generally in 10-20 minutes.

For those who are nostalgic for Thailand - bon appetit!

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We will learn how to cook Tom Yam according to the classic Thai recipe, as well as recipes adapted to European cuisine.

If you have ever been to Thailand, you must have admired not only the magnificent sea and endless clean beaches, but also the culinary delights of the Thais. A distinctive feature of their cuisine is the extensive use of seafood (they are found in almost all dishes in Thailand), as well as the rather spicy taste of ready-made food. Perhaps it is these properties of dishes that make Thai girls so slender and beautiful, and men - incredibly prolific.

Meanwhile, Tom Yam soup is also known outside of Thailand. Any restaurant in the world that serves food oriental cuisine, will treat you to this soup. Only here a small embarrassment can happen: Tom Yam soup in Thailand can be very different from Tom Yam soup in Dubai or Istanbul.

What's the matter? The reason is that this dish has long become world famous, and each nationality has brought something of its own to the recipe. We will learn how to cook Tom Yam according to the classic Thai recipe, as well as recipes adapted to European cuisine.

Soup Tom Yum - preparation of food and dishes

What is a dish with such a mysterious oriental name? "Tom Yum" is creamy soup with shrimps. It is special in that instead of cream, Thais use coconut milk, as well as a lot of various additives in the form of herbs that do not grow in our country and are not always found on sale. Fortunately, there are two options here.

The first option - in the hypermarkets of large cities, small boxes called "Tom Yum Soup Ingredients" have long appeared, in which you (for a very moderate fee) will find everything you need for the recipe.

The second option is that each of the ingredients unfamiliar to us can be replaced with a similar one used in our latitudes.

So, for Tom Yam soup, you need to make a base from the following ingredients ( classic version thai soup):

galangal root (a tough plant very, very reminiscent of ginger root) 100 grams, lemongrass, lime leaves, krachai (this is a Thai variety of ginger). Collect water (2 liters) in a saucepan and put the chopped ingredients there.

When the water boils, add the following ingredients to the pot.

Now let's look at what we can make the basis for Tom Yam soup from, if you have not found the above plants. Instead of lemongrass, galangal root, krachay and lime leaves, take 150 grams of ginger root and lemon leaves and follow the same procedure. Place chopped ginger and lemon leaves in a pot of water and bring to a boil.

In addition to these herbal ingredients for a classic Thai soup, you will need coconut milk, shrimp, chili paste, fish sauce, mushrooms. For other Tom Yum soup recipes, use seafood and some varieties of vegetables.

Tom Yum Soup Recipes:

Recipe 1: Tom Yum Soup

Let's cook classic soup"Tom Yum", using all the ingredients that the Thais put in the dish. Ideally, you should use king prawns (should be 3-4 prawns per serving of soup), but you can buy regular prawns, then there should be just more of them. Fish sauce is sold in stores and is put instead of salt, if you don’t find this product, you can simply replace it with regular salt or soy sauce.

Required Ingredients:

  • King prawns 400 grams
  • Fish sauce 2 tablespoons
  • Oyster mushrooms 300 grams
  • Coconut milk 0.5 liters
  • Chili paste, 2 tablespoons
  • Lime 1 piece
  • cilantro

Cooking method:

  • While the water is boiling in the pot, prepare the ingredients.
  • Wash oyster mushrooms under running water and chop with a knife. Add to saucepan.
  • Peel the onion and chop finely. Add to boiling water in a saucepan, along with 2 tablespoons of chile paste. Lower the heat and cover the pot with a lid. Leave for 10 minutes.
  • While the mushrooms and onions are cooking, peel the shrimp from the shell. Add them to soup with fish sauce. Squeeze lime juice and let the soup boil.
  • Pour the coconut milk into the pan, stir and let the Tom Yum soup boil again, after which it must be removed from the heat.
  • Put chopped greens in the finished dish. Enjoy your meal!

Recipe 2: Dubai Tom Yum Soup

If you want to try Tom Yam soup in Dubai restaurants, you will be somewhat surprised - this dish will be fish, but without mushrooms. Try to cook Tom Yam in Dubai and you!

Required Ingredients:

  • Soup base (2 liters of water with boiled plants)
  • Shrimps 300 grams
  • Crab meat 200 grams
  • Squid 2 carcasses
  • Coconut milk 0.4 liters
  • Chili paste, 2 tablespoons
  • Lime 1 piece

Cooking method:

  • While water is boiling in a pot with plants, prepare the ingredients.
  • Remove the shells from the shrimp, peel the squid from the films and cut into thin strips. Crab meat cut into cubes. Note that crab sticks cannot be used instead of crab meat for this dish.
  • Put seafood into boiled water, add chili paste, salt, squeeze lime juice. Let the soup cook for 10 minutes.
  • After this period of time, add coconut milk to the pan, stir and bring the soup to a boil, then remove from heat and serve.

Recipe 3: Turkish Tom Yum Soup

Turkish soup differs in that it contains pieces of red fish, giving the dish a unique fish flavor. Also, the Turks generously add greens to the dish - parsley, cilantro and dill. Turkish soup Tom Yam is more rare than classic, but it is no less tasty.

Required Ingredients:

  • Soup base (2 liters of water with boiled plants)
  • Shrimp regular 300 grams
  • Red fish of any variety, raw or lightly salted 300 grams
  • Leek 150 grams
  • Coconut milk 0.4 liters
  • Chili paste, 2 tablespoons
  • Lime 1 piece
  • Parsley, cilantro, dill

Cooking method:

  • Put a pot of Tom Yum soup plants on the fire, and while the water is boiling, prepare the fish components.
  • Remove the shells from the shrimp, and clean the fish from bones and skin, cut into square large pieces.
  • Wash the leek and cut with a knife. Put the shrimp, fish and onion into the boiled water, add the chili paste, salt and squeeze the lime juice. Leave the soup under a closed lid on low heat for 15 minutes.
  • Then pour the coconut milk into the pot, stir and bring the soup to a boil.
  • Cut finely washed greens and put in a saucepan 2 minutes before readiness.

Recipe 4: Mediterranean Tom Yum Soup

The dish, prepared according to European standards, is not as spicy (since chili sauce is not put in the composition), and also more vegetable, thanks to the use of carrots, tomatoes and onions.

Required Ingredients:

  • Soup base (2 liters of water with boiled plants)
  • Shrimps 400 grams
  • Onion 1 piece
  • Carrot 1 piece
  • Coconut milk 0.4 liters
  • Lime 1 piece
  • Parsley, basil
  • Soy sauce, ground pepper
  • Sunflower oil 1 tablespoon

Cooking method:

  • Put the pot with the ingredients for the Tom Yum soup on the fire, and while the water boils, prepare the rest of the ingredients.
  • Clean the shrimp.
  • Peel the onion from the husk, cut with a knife. Wash the carrots and grate. Cut tomatoes into small slices. Heat up a frying pan, brush with oil. Put the onions first, then the carrots, and after a couple of minutes the tomatoes. Saute vegetables for five to six minutes.
  • Add shrimp, fried, squeeze lime juice, 2 tablespoons to the pan soy sauce and pepper.
  • After 15 minutes, pour the coconut milk into the pot, stir and bring the Tom Yum soup to a boil.
  • Cut finely washed greens and put in a saucepan a couple of minutes before readiness.

Recipe 5: Tom Yum Soup with Cream

Instead of coconut milk, you can also use regular cream with 15-20 percent fat. Replace oyster mushrooms with champignons and enjoy Thai-style soup with elements of Slavic cuisine!

Required Ingredients:

  • Soup base (2 liters of water with boiled plants)
  • Shrimps 400 grams
  • 2 medium sized tomatoes
  • Onion 1 large piece
  • Champignon mushrooms 300 grams
  • Cream (15% fat) 0.5 liters
  • Chili paste 2 tablespoons
  • Lime 1 piece
  • Parsley
  • Salt

Cooking method:

  • Put the soup pot on the fire.
  • Wash the mushrooms thoroughly and cut into cubes with a knife. Add to saucepan.
  • Peel the onion from the husk and chop finely. Cut the tomatoes into cubes.
  • Clean the shrimp from the shell. Add shrimp with vegetables to boiled soup, chili paste, salt and squeeze lime juice. Reduce heat for 10 minutes and cover with a lid.
  • Pour the cream into the saucepan, stir with a spoon and let the soup boil.
  • Finely chop the parsley and add to the pot a minute before it's done.
  • Thais do not eat bread, instead they eat all dishes with boiled rice. If you want to get closer to the Thais in using Tom Yam soup, then boil 200 grams of rice in lightly salted water along with the first course.
  • Do not use for Tom Yum soup. Forest mushrooms, they are too fragrant and can overpower the delicate fishy aroma. Skip the oyster mushrooms and mushrooms.
  • If you are not preparing the classic Tom Yam soup, but are experimenting, then add as much seafood as possible to the dish - fish, octopus, mussels, squid.
  • Coconut milk can be safely replaced with medium-fat cream.
  • If you can't get a lime, you can replace it with the juice of half a lemon. published