Cookbook:Tom Yum Gai

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Tom Yum Gai
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Category Chicken recipes
Servings 4
Time 30 minutes

4 servings.

Ingredients

  • 400 grams (about 1lb) boneless chicken meat diced
  • 3 cups chicken stock
  • 100 grams (3.5 oz) straw mushrooms, halved 6 cherry tomatoes
  • 1 fresh lemon grass stem cut into short lengths
  • 2-3 kaffir lime leaves, torn
  • 3 tbsp Thai fish sauce
  • 4 tbsp fresh lime juice
  • 1/2 tsp sugar
  • 5-6 hot fresh Thai chilies, just broken with pestle


Procedure

  1. Place the stock in a pot, add the lemon grass and kaffir lime leaves, and bring to boil over medium heat.
  2. Add the chicken meat, mushroom, fish sauce, lime juice, and sugar; cook slowly and uncovered for 10 minutes. Do not stir.
  3. Add the tomatoes and chilies and cook for 5 more minutes. Remove from heat.

Serve with steamed jasmine rice.

Last modified on 17 October 2011, at 21:25