The famous Thai Tom Yam Soup: 5 recipes

If you have ever visited Thailand, you probably admired not only the magnificent sea and endless clean beaches and culinary delights of the Thai people. A distinctive feature of their cuisine is based on seafood (they are found in almost all dishes of Thailand) and is also quite spicy taste of the cooked food. Perhaps it is these properties of foods do Thai girls such slender and beautiful, and men were incredibly prolific.

Meanwhile, Tom Yam soup known outside of Thailand. Any restaurant in the world serving Oriental cuisine will treat you to this soup. Only here it can happen a little embarrassing: Tom Yam soup in Thailand can be strikingly different from Tom Yam soup in Dubai or Istanbul. What's the matter? The reason being that this dish has already become world famous, and every nation brought to the recipe. We will learn to cook Tom Yam as classic Thai recipe, and adapted for European cuisine recipes.

 





Tom Yam soup — preparing food and utensilsWhat is the dish with this mysterious Oriental name? "Tom Yam" is a creamy soup with shrimp. Special about it is the fact that instead of cream Thais use coconut milk, as well as a lot of different supplements in the form of herbs that do not grow and are not always found on sale. Fortunately, there are two exits. The first option in hypermarkets major cities has long appeared the little boxes called "Ingredients for Tom Yam soup" in which you (for a very reasonable cost) you will find everything needed for the recipe. The second option – each of us unfamiliar ingredients can be replaced by the same used in our latitudes.

So, Tom Yam soup, you need to make the basis of the following ingredients (classic Thai soup) galangal root (hard the plant is very reminiscent of a ginger root) 100 grams, lemongrass, lime leaves, krachai (it's a Thai variant of ginger). Fill a pot of water (2 liters) and put the chopped ingredients. When the water boils, add to the pot the following ingredients.

Now consider what we make the basis for Tom Yam soup, if you do not find the above plant. Instead of lemongrass, galangal root, and lime leaves craca take 150 grams of root ginger and lemon leaves and follow the same procedure. In a pot of water, place the shredded ginger and lemon leaves and bring to a boil.

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

Recipes Tom Yam soup:

Recipe 1: Soup Tom YamCook classic soup "Tom Yam" using all the ingredients that you put in a dish Thais. Ideally you want to use king prawns (should fall 3-4 shrimp per serving of soup), but you can buy and conventional, then they must be just more. Fish sauce is sold in stores and is placed instead of salt, if you this product is not found, you can simply replace regular salt or soy sauce.

Ingredients required:

• Soup base (2 liters of water boiled with plants)
• Shrimp 400 grams
• Fish sauce 2 tablespoons
• Onion-1 piece large size
• Oyster mushrooms 300 grams
• Coconut milk 0.5 liters
• The chili paste 2 tablespoons
• Lime 1 piece
• Cilantro

Method of preparation:

• While in a pot to boil water, prepare your ingredients.
• Oyster mushrooms wash under running water and chop with a knife. Add to the pan.
• Peel the onions and finely chop. Add in boiling water in a saucepan, along with 2 tablespoons of Chile paste. Make lower the fire and cover the pot. Leave for 10 minutes.
• Cook until the mushrooms and onions, clean the shrimp from the shell. Add them to the soup along with fish sauce. Squeeze the lime juice and let the soup boil.
• Pour in a saucepan the coconut milk, stir and let the Tom Yam soup comes to a boil again, then it must be removed from the fire.
• In the finished dish put the chopped greens. Bon appetit!

Recipe 2: Soup Tom Yam-dubiskiIf you want to try the soup of Tom Yam restaurants in Dubai, you will be somewhat surprised – this dish will be fish, but no mushrooms. Try to cook Tom Yam-dubiski you!

Ingredients required:

• Soup base (2 liters of water boiled with plants)
• Shrimp 300 grams
• Crab meat 200 grams
• Squid 2 carcasses
• Coconut milk 0.4 liter
• The chili paste 2 tablespoons
• Lime 1 piece

Method of preparation:

• While the pot plants boil water, prepare your ingredients.
• With the shrimp, remove the shells, squid clear from the films and cut into thin strips. Crab meat cut into cubes. Note that the dishes cannot be used instead of crab meat crab sticks.
• In boiling water put the seafood, add the chili paste, salt, squeeze the lime juice. Allow to cook soup 10 minutes.
• After this period of time add to the pan the coconut milk, stir and bring the soup to a boil, then remove from heat and serve.

Recipe 3: Tom Yam Soup Turkishsoup Turkish is characterized in that it consists of pieces of red fish, giving the dish a unique fish flavor. The Turks also generously added to the dish of greens – parsley, cilantro and dill. Turkish Tom Yam soup is not always found more than a classic, but it is no less delicious.

Ingredients required:

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

Method of preparation:

• Put on fire a pot of plant soup "Tom Yam", and until the water begins to boil, prepare the fish components.
• With the shrimp, remove the shells, and the fish clean from the bones and skin, cut into large square pieces.
• Leek wash, cut with a knife. In boiling water put shrimp, fish and onion, add the chili paste, add salt and squeeze lime juice. Leave the soup with the lid closed on slow fire for 15 minutes.
• Then pour in a saucepan the coconut milk, stir and let the soup boil.
• Finely chop the washed greens and put in a pan for 2 minutes until tender.

Recipe 4: Tom Yam Soup MediterraneanDish, prepared according to European standards, not as spicy (because of the not put chili sauce) and more vegetables, due to the use of carrots, tomatoes and onions.

Ingredients required:

• Soup base (2 liters of water boiled with plants)
• Shrimp 400 grams
• Tomatoes 2 pieces medium size
• Onion 1 piece
• Carrots 1 piece
• Coconut milk 0.4 liter
• Lime 1 piece
• Parsley, Basil
• Soy sauce, ground pepper
• Sunflower oil 1 tablespoon

Method of preparation:

• Put on the fire a pot with ingredients for Tom Yam soup, and while water boils, prepare the remaining components.
• Shrimp clean.
• Onions clean from the husk, cut with a knife. Carrots wash and grate. Tomatoes cut into small slices. Heat a pan, brush with oil. Put first the onion, then carrots, and a few minutes later tomatoes. Fry the vegetables for five to six minutes.
• Add to the pan the shrimp, sauté, squeeze lime juice, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and pepper.
• After 15 minutes, pour in a saucepan the coconut milk, stir and bring Tom Yam soup to a boil.
• Finely chop the washed greens and put in a pan for a couple of minutes until tender.

Recipe 5: Tom Yam Soup with creamInstead of coconut milk you can also use a regular cream with a fat content of 15-20 percent. Replace the oyster mushrooms for champignons and enjoy a soup in Thai, with elements of Slavic cuisine!

Ingredients required:

• Soup base (2 liters of water boiled with plants)
• Shrimp 400 grams
• Tomatoes 2 pieces medium size
• Onion-1 piece large size
• Mushrooms 300 grams
• Cream (15% fat) 0.5 liter
• The chili paste 2 tablespoons
• Lime 1 piece
• Parsley
• Salt

Method of preparation:

• Put a pan of plant soup on the fire.
• Thoroughly wash the mushrooms and cut them into cubes with a knife. Add to the pan.
• Onions clean from the husk and finely chop. Tomatoes cut into cubes.
• Shrimp clear from the shell. Add shrimp with vegetables in a boiling soup, chili paste, salt and squeeze lime juice. For 10 minutes reduce heat and cover.
• Pour into a saucepan the cream, stir with a spoon and let the soup boil.
• Finely chop the parsley and add to the pan for a minute until tender.

Tom Yam soup — secrets and tips from the best chefs

• Thais do not eat bread, instead they eat all dishes with boiled rice. If you want to get close to use Tom Yam soup to the Thais, together with the first dish, boil 200 grams of rice in barely salted water.
• For Tom Yam soup, do not use wild mushrooms, they are too aromatic and can kill odor delicate fish flavor. Do oyster mushrooms and champignons.
• If you are not a classic Tom Yam soup, and experimenting, then add to the dish more seafood – fish, octopus, mussels, squid.
• Coconut milk can be easily replaced cream of average fat content.
• If you are unable to get lime, you can replace it with juice of half a lemon. published by P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! © Join us at Facebook , Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki
  
  

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