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The food in Thailand is awesome, obvees. Spicy and satisfying with fresh Southeast Asian brightness, and not much like the Thai food I’ve had ‘round here, save for SriPraPhai. My favorite dish was Tom Yam, which loosely translates to ‘mixed boiled’—and that’s really all the skill it takes to recreate this hot and sour soup at home. The hard part is tracking down the ingredients. Luckily, Kalustyan’s has it all: frozen galangal (a/k/a ginza or blue ginger), fresh kaffir lime leaves, tamarind paste, Thai chili and fish sauce. The Coop carries fresh lemongrass, along with the other basics needed to make this at home (lime, cilantro, tomato, mushroom, garlic, shallot and shrimp). I gathered the goods and got to mixing/boiling.
This is a quick-cooking soup, so make sure to have everything prepped before you begin. Then it’s all downhill: Boil chicken stock or water, add garlic, shallots, lemongrass, tamarind and galangal. Bring it back to a boil, add tomatoes and mushrooms, then add in your chili, limes leaves and fish sauce, then shrimp. Finish with lime and cilantro and you’re done—and it’s just as good at home as it is in Thailand, seriously.
A big difference with real Thai soup versus what’s served here is the amount of inedible stuff left in the bowl after you eat—the lemongrass, lime leaves, chilies—they infuse a powerful aroma to the food that you just can’t get unless they’re left in. It took some awkward chewing and spitting out for me to figure this out. I toil so you won’t have to learn the hard way. You can thank me later, like after you have some of this fab soup.
Posted on April 16, 2010 with 2 notes ()
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fifibubupsaya reblogged this from newyorkavore and added:
t kite msk tomyam same2 ea… huhuhu
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