Tom Kha Gai is my favorite soup on the menu of our local Thai restaurant. They serve it in one of those aluminum chimneys. It's usually the only thinkg I get.
Anyway I've been meaning to replicate it for a couple of years but never got around to it. I looked a lot of different recipes and took notes from each one but settled on measurements from THIS recipe on the Food Tastes Good blog.
I added a can of straw mushrooms, rinsed very well, and skipped the red bell pepper, salt and red pepper flakes. I made my own nam prik pao(Thai roasted red chili paste but I used a recipe from my Hot Sour Salty Sweet cookbook which doesn't call for palm sugar. My block of palm sugar was harder than cement and I would have needed a jackhammer to break it apart so I used brown sugar.
The end result was very close to what I get at the restaurant. The heat was just right for me. Gradual and flavorful.
I took the leftovers to work served over jasmin rice and it held up very well. I'm definitely making it again next week.
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I wish I liked Thai soups but I have never really gotten them despite my total obsession with Thai food otherwise. But I wanted to mention I almost always nuke my palm sugar for a few moments before using (and always buy either the discs or the glass jars, never the plastic, as a result).
Mmmm - this looks delicious; I can practically smell it. The recipe looks a little more complex than what I'd normally tackle, but probably worth the effort.
Laura-I use the palm sugar disks too but it's so dry here my disk was beyond hope.
Nancy-it wasn't that labor intensive. With Asian cooking I spend most of my time getting my mis-en-place together. Most dishes only take a few minutes to put together after that.
I think I will give yours a try.
Here is the only Thai soup I've made before. I halved the coconut milk; otherwise it overwhelms the other flavors. It' may be an American version of a Thai soup...but it's delicious!
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=549852
(Sorry I can't find a way to shorten the link!)
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=
displayRecipe&recipe_id=549852
Eesh. Or go to MyRecipes.com and search Thai Shrimp and Chicken Soup.
Yeah that soup is Americanized. It looks good though.
I use regular unsweetened coconut milk and have never noticed an overwhelming flavor.
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