Tom Yum Soup Mixture 5 cups water 1 teaspoon makrut lime leaf 1 1/3 tablespoons chopped ginger 1 1/3 tablespoons chopped galangal 1/4 cup chopped lemongrass 3/4 tablespoon chopped Thai chile 1/3 teaspoon salt 1 ounce fish sauce 2 ounces lime juice 1/2 teaspoon dark brown sugar 2 1/2 tablespoons red curry paste 2 cups white sugar Thai salads are called yum, and yum vinaigrette is made up of fish sauce, lime juice, palm sugar, and chilies. Finally chop up a handful of fresh cilantro, throw it in the soup, and give your tom yum a final stir. Nam prik pao () is basically a Thai roasted chili sauce thats packed with flavor and usually bought in a can these days. Good food, Puns/Jokes & Food for the Thoughts. Aiala, Hey mate, Coarsely break about 10 kaffir lime leaves - no need to cut them, just tear them - which is going to help release their flavor. I would love to buy a printed copy of Eating Thai food guide if you ever start printing them on paper. Sounds good Lawrence, let me know how it goes! Also chop 1 small carrot, 5 to 6 french beans, slice 1 to 2 shallots or pearl onions and finely chop 2 to 3 garlic cloves. Thank you ! I love Tom Yum and have tried many recipes that Ive found online. For a while I imagined myself being good enough to cook a proper Tom Yum soup at a local Thai restaurant, haha! Thank you! Through my recipes, Im aiming to provide a realistic amount of ingredients of how youd find the dish in Thailand. If you are ever in Calgary, Canada, look me up and Ill take you to the Spicy Hut restaurant for some chow and we can stuff our faces till the cows come home. Using a meat mallet or the side of a knife, smash the lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, onion, chilies, and galangal. It turned out amazing! Thats usually what they add I think. The flavor of tom yum should be sour upfront from lime juice, then salty from fish sauce, with a mild sweetness from nam prik pao paste. you make it easy! amzn_assoc_asins = "B000ET17VI,B000N0286G,B00OFBJZWY,B01L3DDR0C"; The best I can come up with is Major Tom yum soup and Hashes to Hashes and maybe Diamond Hot Dogs. This is the CLEAR version of Tom Yum. Note: If youre looking for a Thai coconut milk based soup, check out my tom kha gairecipe. Made some last night with the ingredients reduced. Throw the lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, garlic and chilies into the water. The leaves offer a strong, earthy-citrus scent and can be found in many Asian grocery stores (either in the produce section or frozen). Thank you Kitti, haha whipped cream, might have to try that! And so easy to make! Thank you again and keep cooking Thai food! Hope you enjoy it! I love my very own Thai kitchen & your recipe. The flavors were amazing I just I would of error on the side of not putting them all in. Mix it all in and let your soup heat up for about 1 minute. Thanks! Both were soo good!!! Thats a personal preference and nothing to do with you. Great taste but the lemon grass was really tough and chewy and stringy. Recipe in Tom Yum Paste. Thank you for the website sharing the recipes! I think it might be due to using the amount of lemongrass and galangal. Jokes aside, they love your meals. Taste like magic. . I have tried countless times to recreate the addicting taste of this soup, but this is the only recipe I know which tastes super authentic. For substitute, you could either omit it, or you could make prik pao with dry chilies and shallots. Thank you again for sharing, and keep cooking Thai food! So full of flavour. Dont think the canned chilli paste is available where i live. So happy you posted this. Tom Kloang Pla Salid Makaam On from The Local (Bib Gourmand) Tom som. Stir-fry for 1-2 minutes, until they turn a bright and deep orange. First time in my life I tried myself in cooking Tom Yum stop, and surprisingly from the first try at was so delicious and so easy to make! Glad you love tom yum as well. I made the clear version minus the chillies because of the kids and found 4 limes was enough and added more sugar and fish sauce. Looks perfect. When I take a big whiff of it after it arrives at the table I almost hack my brains out from its intriguingly spicy and complex fragrance. Way better than restaurant xx. Dear Mark, Now prepare your shrimp (or whatever meat of choice youre making tom yum with). Hey Clara, youre welcome, hope you enjoy it. Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for this recipe I love Tom Yum soup so much it is one of my favorites next to Basil Beef with white rice:). She is asking for a plane ticket now! Keep filming and penning the recipes. Prawn Dumplings (Har Gao): Let it Gao. Im guessing this isnt the sort of soup you could freeze or store in the fridge over night? Not white or brown! Dictionary Thesaurus Sentences . Great recipe! An Ancient Siamese Recipe for Tom Yum Soup (First Published in 1890). Cup noodle: Cup noodles are precooked instant noodles with flavoring powder and/or seasoning sauce sold in a polystyrene, polyethylene, or paper cup. Thanks for very detailed and careful step by step. I will definitely let you know if I come to visit Calgary in the future. I also cut the heads of the prawns and let those cook early on. :). Is it right? Thailand Food Puns This is the best Thai food I've ever pad. HI MARK, I EAT TOM YUM SOUP CHICKEN IN MBK BANGKOK ONE WEEK AGO, I CANT FORGET THE TEST OF THIS SOUP. I loved your delightful video on making tom yum! How do I make Thai Chilli Paste myself since its not easy to find the chilli paste here in KL, Malaysia. I hope you enjoyed this tom yum soup recipe. Enjoy! Your idea of leaving the heads and tails on the shrimps but taking the shell off the bodies is a masterstroke, because the shells will lend flavour to the soup, wont they, but without making them awkward to eat. It's not normally eaten as an individual bowl of soup, the way it would be in Western cultures, but instead it's a communal dish that goes together with other dishes and eaten with rice. Thats how important they are. I personally love it with coconut creamand extra coriander and spring onions.. Its hard for me to tell whether the soup needs more fish sauce or sugar, as I dont cook with them very often. Thank you for sharing this recipe. This was fantastic. I had Tom Yum a few times and got addicted. But you could try coconut milk if youd like, and yes just replace it. Oh! If you get to San Francisco please look me up:-) I would love to give you the locals tour of SF. I I will try to make Tom Yang Gung myself. Usually served as an appetizer, tom yum is traditionally . What I like about tom yum is it actually has all the taste that you would like in a food, the soup is a combination of sour, spicy, and its perfectly creamy. Her recipes have been published in Eating Well, Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, The Kitchn, Thrillist, and Tone It Up. I tried your recipe and it was great! Thank you so much! Nicely done with the massaman curry as well! Youre welcome, hope you enjoy it! Try couple of sliver green part of lime peel next time, no bay leaf ok. Tom translates to boiled and yum translates to medley, which refers to the soups dressing. The recipe for this dish varies but the broth is usually made from chilli paste that contains krill paste (kapi), shallots, coriander roots, sour tamarind (som makaam), palm sugar and fish sauce. And taste kind of sweet and smoky, and a little oily? A list of puns related to "Tom yum" Help! The only problem is, where I live, we dont get kaffir lime leaves or nam prik pao. Whats up Mark! Place them in a medium soup pot. I can handle a lot of heat but it ruined the dish. You have the best descriptions of your recipes and your videos are really informative. My favorite! I made this Tom Yum Goong and shared with my workmates. Thanks so much for this recipe! Hi Momoko, thank you very much. Cons: not salty enough. Utensils: Large saucepan Really AWESOME. Can you recommend the next recipe I should have a crack at we love chillis and chicken if that helps! Let me know how it goes! Wow this was incredible! I love this soup. Tom Kloang Pla Salid Makaam On from The Local (Bib Gourmand) Tom som. With deep respect, Add the chiles and lime juice to the pot and stir to combine. Thank you again, Ill try to get more recipes out soon. Its definitely the best Ive tried so far. I make a base stock now and freeze what I dont use. One word: WOW! Has always been one of my favorite dishes when eating at a Thai restaurant. Saludos desde Barcelona. Hi Rich, sorry about that, I should have mentioned in the recipe that the lemongrass and galangal are not typically eaten, but they are just used as aromatics for the soup broth. Haha, thanks for sharing Fannie, glad you enjoyed it! since I was in thailend in 2006 I have been addected to Tom YUM soup , but never had good recepie like that , I cant wait to cook it and try your recepie ! I couldnt find kefir leaves in stores so i used a couple of bay leaves. Does it come out of a can? Tom Yum is one of my favorite dishes from Thailand. You may be able to switch out ginger for galangal, but without keffir leaves just dont waste your time. Great recepy ! I got the runs from the antibiotics in it. I made the creamy version of this soup but with chicken and WOW!!! Very well explained in detail. Very well explained. It wont be Tom Yum. followed your recipe and was amazing thanks so much!!!! sur ce site les recettes sont authentiques et bien expliques. Thank you for sharing this recipe! The broth is my favorite part: Close-my-eyes delicious. Easy to make and easy to follow. Tom absolutely loves tractors A little boy named Tom was approaching his 3rd birthday, and absolutely adored the show "Tractor Tom", partially because of his name being spoken, and partially because he loved tractors. i.e. Thanks. Be sure to watch the, Tom Yum Goong () is a Thai soup that's meant to be eaten with a variety of other Thai dishes. As a senior ,its way above my daily salt recomendation, Its definitely a keeper! Your video really helped. hi, were about to give this a try. Other ingredients are still important though, especially Thai chilies (), mushrooms (), cilantro (), tomatoes (), sweet white onions (), lime juice (), sugar (), and fish sauce (). of these birthday puns is sure to bake your day (pun intended). Made it as shown except only used about one lime total. Thank you for sharing your extra tips! Berikut ini bahan dan cara untuk memasaknya, bikin tom yam creamy soup yuk! Simmer and let the stock reduce to 2 1/2 cups. Add the mushrooms, 8 ounces peeled and deveined large or jumbo shrimp, 2 tablespoons nam prik pao paste, and 2 tablespoons fish sauce. Lots of thanks. The first was the steamed fish in lime and chili sauce. It's so easy it's a piece of banana pancake. The most absolutely essential ingredients for this tom yum recipe are the trio of Thai herbs: This trio of Thai ingredients is what really gives tom yum its flavor, and without them you would not have a complete dish. I just made this for dinner and the flavor is amazing! Puedes ayudarme? Just do what you prefer :). It was awesome and everyone in the family wants it again. [add_popup title=Where can I send it? description=Enter your e-mail to download your PDF copy of this Thai tom yum soup recipe now. id=unique-id button=Send it to me!], Evaporated milk the secret that makes it creamy. BTome up Tom Tweet Bone up on: Bums Tom seats Tweet Bums on seats: Cash Tom the nail Tweet Cash on the nail: Chip Tom your shoulder Tweet Chip on your shoulder: Climb Tom the bandwagTom Tweet Climb on the bandwagon: Come Tom down Tweet Come on down: Tom a wing and a prayer Tweet on a wing and a prayer: CottTom Tom to Tweet Cotton on to: Dance . I love Thai food but was afraid to cook as it seems complicated. Everyday that I work she prepares such amazing and delicious Thai food. Recently I was holidaying in Singapore with my family. Thank you for this recipe and your site in general. Hi Mark, I tried your recipe today. I tried your tom yum recipe (the creamy one) and a little less of chili, my wife and children love it!! But first, watch the video for exact detailed instructions: (If you cant see the video, watch it here: http://youtu.be/lCmAvdvRC3U), Time: About 30 minutes 2. This came out great! Awesome to hear that Christine, glad you enjoyed it! Great recipe! Thanks a lot dude. Is there a substitute for fish sauce. I love to cook, i am french most of my cooking is french cuisine. So easy to make too. Awesome!!! But you can really use any kind of shrimp or other meat of your choice. It takes slightly longer to extract the flavor since I do not bash the lemongrass and tear the kaffir lime leaves. I didnt know those ingredients werent normally eaten. Hi Shalina, great to hear you love tom yum goong, and glad it turned out so well! Definitely one of my favorites. There I found even a single tablespoon of the condensed milk was enough as it got too creamy otherwise. Thanks pal. This is one of my favorite soups, and I try to order it up whenever I can. Definitely will come back to refer to it again and make another in a bigger bowl! This recipes turned out amazing! Wow! Do you skice the garlic? I made the clear Tom Yum soup. Un abrazo desde Barcelona. Another great recipe, thank you! Ill let you know if I ever had the ebook printed. I love this recipe. So I bought a Kafir lime tree which Im growing in a 5 gallon pail just to get fresh Kafir leaves. They Use ginger and chili, coriander herb, mushrooms, shrips, lemongras, galagal and kaffir. Its a little spicy you said A little??? I used goong mae nam (), or freshwater shrimp. when I order Kweh Diao Sen Lek Tom Yum, they seem to have a red paste that they add to the regular clear soup its aroi mak mak (very delicious) and Id love to be able to replicate that at home too. ITS WAS THE MOST APPETIZING SOUP I EAT . Im getting my ingredients ready to start making your yummy dishes. I just really love the broth thats all!! amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; Lacked flavor and depth. Thank you so much for posting this. HI MARK, I EAT TOM YUM SOUP CHICKEN IN MBK BANGKOK ONE WEEK AGO, I CANT FORGET THE TEST OF THIS SOUP. Hey Paul, thank you very much, glad you love to cook as well, and that you can get many of the ingredients. Youre welcome Charles, glad you like it! Taste test the tom yum and adjust the flavor as needed before adding the kaffir lime leaves and turning off the heat. Ive become quite an expert in cooking creamy version of tom yum goong. Thanks again Mark. Dear Mark, 1,000 thanks yous for your amazing website!!! "Tom" means boiling "Yum" means mixed and "Kung" means shrimp. However I figure it would be more clear if you gave (at least estimated) mass of what you use. And yes, definitely a major part of cooking Thai food is taste-testing and balancing out all the flavors and ingredients. Thanks for sharing your recipe! I cooked up some rice noodle and served the clear version over them! I use 4 limes and only 3 chillies. Take your stalks of lemongrass, and first tear off the outermost leaf and throw it out. Enjoy! The makrut lime plant is used more for its leaves than its fruit. I deseeded the chilis. Hi :) However, I went to a restaurant in Ayutthaya a few months ago, where I got to eat a traditional style of tom yum, that was incredible, so Im hoping to make the recipe for that soon too. Hey Dave, nice to hear from you, thank you for sharing. I didnt see this in the instructions, but before adding the meat, I strained out the lemongrass, lime leaves, chillis, galangal and garlic. I made the clear version and its awesome!!!! Perry grew up in Denver, Colorado and was raised by two grandmothers who taught her the importance of cooking with all five senses and never adhering to a diet with a name. Ben and ning noosa australia. You can put on the lid just so it starts to boil and release all the herb flavors quicker. Like the tom kloang, fish is the meat of choice and it can be anything found in . It works like a charm. Garry. My good I miss this soup. I didnt know it is so easy to make Tom Yum soup and it tastes fantastic! I lived more than 8 years in Thailand and moved to the Philippines. Enjoy! Its absolutely amazing !!!. You can also remove the seeds if youd still like the chili flavor but not as much heat. Tried making the clear version of the soup couple of days ago. Remove the pot from the heat. Keep up the great work, your videos and recipes are nothing short of awesome. Peel off and discard the tough outer leaves until you reach the smooth and pale inner leaves. My thai chillies were green/unripe so the spiciness was weak. Tom Yum is one of the best known Thai dishes, a spicy, sour, and aromatic soup that is traditionally served with rice. Looked through quite a few recipes and decided to give youre one a try. Recipe size: 1 pot of soup, probably about 5 6 bowls Stir in sugar and fish sauce, simmer for 1 minute. My darling was sick and made it for him. This soup will now be in regular rotation this fall. A Taste of Heaven. Are we able to freeze the creamy soup please? Also about 10 tablespoons of evaporated milk. Also, thank you for the tip for other readers. Thank you! 1 handful (10g) coriander leaves. Mark, Also, the flavors of sourness and the the heat from the chilies are usually a little more pronounced in this version. Sour Spicy Tom Yum Soup with Snakehead Fish, Roasted Chili Jam and Green Mango (Dtohm Yam Bplaa Chaawn, ..) We order this dish every time were at Thai. I made it tonight and it was soooooo good. I tried out your recipe and my whole family love the result. I also saw two other Tom Yum recipes on your website but have chosen this one. Here's a good example: "The thermostat is set too high," said Tom heatedly. Thank you so much for the recipes! Siu Mai god, these are tasty. Couldnt find the kaffir leaves but didnt seem to make a difference! I think youll love it! Thanks! You mentioned on your post that this isnt the fancy type I wasnt aware of the other type and wondering what you meant by that. Yes, that would be part of Marks success for sure, his determination always impresses me. Thank you for sharing!. Very detailed and extremely easy to follow. You can make this flavor-packed soup in just under 20 minutes. I am sure it has changed. Can you share some tips on how the soup would taste if it needed either? I can see that its going to be appearing often on the dinner table. Hi Mohamed, youre welcome, glad you love tom yum goong as well. Ill be trying several more of your recipes in the near future. Thanks for your perfect recipe and excellent video. I had all the ingredients other than cilantro and tomatoes. and I heard some people even further by make Tom Yum with wipcream. Hey Noodle, yes those fire pots are not for cooking, just for serving at the table and keeping the soup hot. Hey Oddy, really happy to hear your tom yum goong turned out so well, thanks! Keep enjoying Thai food! Thank you so much. Full list of ingredients listed in the official recipe section below. 7 Can you just reduce the quantity of ingredients for a smaller batch? Tom Yum Goong is one of my favorites. The recipe for this dish varies but the broth is usually made from chilli paste that contains krill paste (kapi), shallots, coriander roots, sour tamarind (som makaam), palm sugar and fish sauce. Nothing else. I also tossed in a few Thai Eggplant I chopped up and they came out great. Soy un amante de la comida thai. Hi. Take two roma tomatoes and two small white onions and slice them into wedges - you want them to be big and chunky. I made it exactly as written, the only adjustment was 6 Thai chiles instead of 10. Awesome. I didnt see it in the recipe. See more of our authentic, https://www.eatingthaifood.com/2014/01/thai-basil-chicken-recipe-pad-kra-pao-gai/, 8 - 12 tablespoons of fish sauce (depending on your taste), 8 - 12 tablespoons of lime juice (10 - 15 limes). Thank you for sharing this recipe! And having extra spice sour salty on the side is an easy way for each person to season their own bowl of soup Do you agree?? Mark, this is one of my most fave Thai soups. I saw you video with Andrew Zimmern, very cool. We loved this recipe! Do you know, by chance, the ingredients for the other street style Tom Yum as well? Thank you,will love to hear from you and pmreference is only vegetarian no meat.would love to learn more of this cooking. Happy cooking! This was not only the best soup I have ever made, but the best Tom Yum goong nam sai I have ever had. Preparing the creamy version today. Puns make for great jokes that will either make people laugh or groan. thank you. Excellent article Mark, I really enjoyed it. //