Tom Yam Soup - 6 recipes at home

Spicy Tom Yam soup will surely interest all lovers of original Asian cuisine. Today you can try it in any restaurant in Thailand or cook at home yourself. The necessary exotic components can be purchased in themed online stores.

Thai Tom Yam Soup - A Classic Recipe

Ingredients: 330 ml coconut milk, 70 ml strong chicken stock, 7-8 lime leaves, 70 g butter, 20 g shrimp sauce, half a liter of filtered water, a pinch of dried lemongrass, 120 g peeled shrimp, 25 g galangal root , 80-90 g of scallops and squid, 8-9 pcs. cherry, 2 limes, 30 g of special seasoning, 6-7 green onion feathers.

1. At the first stage, a base for refreshments is prepared. To do this, coconut milk, broth, sauce (shrimp) and purified still water are poured into the saucepan. The capacity goes to the stove. When the first bubbles appear on the surface, the fire under the pan decreases and the mass remains languishing while the other components are being prepared.
2. Lime leaves, dried lemongrass and medium-sized root are fried in a frying pan in butter.
3. After a couple of minutes, all thawed seafood is laid out for them. They need to be fried until the shrimp changes color.
4. Halved cherry tomatoes and chopped green onions are sent to the pan.
5. After a couple of minutes, the broth is poured from the first step, juice is squeezed from the limes and a special seasoning is added.

The ingredients warm up together and the soup can be served.

Seafood Recipe

Ingredients: a pound of assorted seafood, white onion, 3 garlic cloves, 4 fleshy tomatoes, 8-9 leaves of lemongrass, 90 g of oyster mushroom, 3 stalks of lemongrass, 30 g of galangal root, fine salt, a mixture of peppers, shallots (1 pc. ), 3 chili peppers, 25 g ginger root.

1. For hot dressing, garlic, chili pepper, shallot and ginger root are finely chopped. The ingredients are fried for 3-4 minutes in a pan with a small amount of heated oil, after which they are kneaded in a mortar. Such pasta can be purchased ready-made at a theme store. True, in this case, an amplifier of taste will necessarily be in its composition.
2. The roots of the galangal should be washed and calcined for 1 minute over the flame of the burner. Lemongrass stalks get rid of the upper green part.
3. Seafood is cleaned of all unnecessary, washed and finely cut. Mushrooms are streaked, and onions and tomatoes are random.
4. All the ingredients from the second and fourth steps are sent to the pot of water and boiled over low heat until the onion softens.
5. Next, prepared seafood and hot pasta are placed in the container. The soup is brought to a boil, salted, peppered and immediately turned off.

Served tom-yum with shrimp and other seafood hot and garnished with lime slices.

Tom yum soup with chicken - step by step

Ingredients: 380 ml of coconut milk, 220 g each of chicken (fillet) and shrimp, 2 large chili peppers, 2 cm. Ginger root, whole lime or lemon zest and 2 tbsp. tablespoons of its juice, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of granulated sugar, 4-5 garlic cloves.

1. To prepare a sharp supplement, garlic is chopped with thin slices, and chili peppers with tiny rings.
2. In a deep frying pan in oil, the garlic is first fried until golden. Then he cooks for a couple of minutes already with chili. Sugar, chopped zest and grated ginger root are added to this.
3. Shrimp and chicken are brewed. On seafood, you need to leave your heads and shells - this will make the broth more rich.
4. Chicken and shrimp are laid out from the broth. Half a liter of liquid is combined with coconut milk in a separate bowl.
5. Lemon juice, peeled shrimp, small pieces of chicken and hot pasta are added there. After another couple of minutes of cooking, the soup will be completely ready.

Tom yum with chicken chopped herbs is decorated.

Vegetarian tom yum

Ingredients: a large spoonful of grated carrots, tomato cubes, chopped tofu and white onion, 2 cm. Ginger root, 60 g sweet corn, cauliflower and broccoli, 5-6 leaves of lemongrass, kaffir lime leaf, 320 ml of filtered water , a large spoonful of dark and light soy sauce, 1 tsp. brown sugar, as much chili paste and lime juice, a large spoonful of coconut milk and ground coriander.

1. The water is brought to a boil in a deep frying pan. Grated ginger, lemongrass greens and a lime leaf, as well as all chopped vegetables, corn and tofu, are sent to it.
2. After boiling water again, sugar and two types of soy sauce are sent to the pan.
3. The mass is stewed for 3-4 minutes, after which the remaining ingredients are laid in it. You can also add half a clove of crushed garlic to your taste.
4. The treat warms up for a couple of minutes, after which it is served at the table.

Vegetarian Thai soup Tom Yam is decorated with any chopped fresh herbs.

Original creamy soup

Ingredients: half a liter of fat cream, 2 tomatoes, 430 g large peeled shrimp, white onion, 320 g champignons, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of chili paste, large lime, half a bunch of parsley, salt to taste, base - 2 l of water with boiled plant components (3 stalks of lemongrass and 25 g of galangal root).

1. Water is put on fire. When it boils, you can immediately pour peeled and diced mushrooms into the pan.
2. Onions are chopped finely, tomatoes are chopped in medium slices.
3. Shrimps are cut in half, after which they, together with prepared vegetables, are sent to the broth.
4. After 5-6 minutes, juice from the whole lime is poured into the future soup, salt and chili paste are added.
5. It remains to pour the cream into the pan and bring its contents to a boil again.

A hot treat with chopped herbs is served.

Thai soup using prepared Tom Yam pasta

Ingredients: 1.8 l chicken stock, 40 g fresh cilantro, 2 lime or lemon, chili pepper, 90 g ready-made pasta, 180 ml coconut milk, 30 g fish sauce (ready-made), 210 g oyster mushroom, 8 g sugar sand, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of dried lemongrass, 3-4 leaves of lime, a pound of peeled shrimp, 40 g of ginger root.

1. The chicken broth is brought to a boil. Lemongrass and chopped lime leaves, as well as grated ginger, are sent to it. The components are boiled for 3-4 minutes.
2. Pasta, granulated sugar and fish sauce are added to the future soup. The ingredients mix well.
3. After a couple of minutes, finely chopped mushrooms, thin rings of pepper, and shrimp are sent to the broth.
4. After the appearance of regular bubbles on the surface of the broth, coconut milk is poured into the pan.
5. It remains to add the juice of two citrus fruits and chopped herbs.

As soon as the soup boils again, the pan is removed from the stove and the treat is poured in portions.

What is the Tom Yam Soup Kit?

To greatly simplify the process of preparing the soup in question, you can purchase a ready-made set of products for him. Then the chef will not have to wander around the shops in search of the right ingredients. Typically, such sets are sold in theme shops with exotic Thai products.

The composition of the sets in different stores is slightly different. But it certainly includes galangal root and kaffir lime leaves. In addition, chili peppers and lemongrass are among the ingredients. As additional ingredients in this set there is cilantro, bamboo shoots and special seasoning for spicy soup.

How to replace lemongrass in soup?

 

An essential ingredient of the Thai soup being discussed is lemongrass. If it was not possible to find it for sale, then such a component can easily be replaced, for example, with lemon grass, crushed lime peel, or even ordinary lemon. The latter will definitely be able to be found in any supermarket.