The recipe for the famous tom yum shrimp soup 🦐

In this article, you will learn the recipe for making Thai Tom Yum Shrimp Soup. Learn to cook the broth specifically for this soup, as well as prepare all the necessary ingredients. You will find out which version of this Thai dish is more to the liking of Europeans and why, and thanks to the step-by-step description with a photo, you can repeat it in your kitchen. In the recipe recommendations, you will find tips on replacing some products.

40 min
45 kcal
4 servings
Medium difficulty
The recipe for the famous tom yum shrimp soup 🦐

Kitchen appliances and utensils: hob, pan, sieve, tablespoon, teaspoon, measuring cup, grater, knife, cutting board.

Ingredients

Ingredients amount
Galangal 50 g
Ginger 50 g
Shrimp 300 g
Kafir lime 1 PC.
Lime ½ pcs
Oyster mushrooms 200 g
Carrot 50 g
Purple onion 25 g
Palm sugar 0.5 tbsp. l
Chilli 5 g
Tom yum pasta 2 tbsp. l
Water 1,5 l
Fish sauce 10 tbsp. l
Salt 0.5 tsp
Cherry tomatoes 5 pieces.
Coconut milk 3 tbsp. l
Cilantro 10 g

Step cooking

  1. Cook the broth. Pour 1.5 l of water into the pan and bring to a boil.
    In a saucepan, bring the water to a boil.
  2. Wash the roots of galangal and ginger, cut into slices 2-3 mm thick and send to boiling water.
    Spread in boiling water sliced ​​roots of galangal and ginger.
  3. Peel 300 g of raw shrimp from shells. Add shells to the future broth.
    Add the shells of the shrimp.
  4. Remove the zest from kafir lime and also add to the broth.
    Add kefir lime zest.
  5. Boil the broth for 30-40 minutes.
    Cook the broth for half an hour.
  6. Strain through a sieve, and return the liquid to the pan.
    Then we filter the broth and return to the fire.
  7. Oyster mushrooms cut into strips of about 5 mm, you can just tear them by hand.
    Oyster mushrooms tear hands into pieces.
  8. Peel 50 g of carrots and cut into cubes about 1 cm.
    Dice the carrots.
  9. Peel the purple onion and cut into large pieces of 25 g.
    cut the onion into large pieces.
  10. Be the first to add chopped mushrooms and carrots to the pan with strained broth. Bring to a boil and boil for 2-3 minutes. In the process of preparing the soup and adding the remaining vegetables, the soup should boil slightly.
    We spread carrots and oyster mushrooms in a boiled broth.
  11. Next, add 0.5 tbsp. l palm sugar and 5 g chopped chili peppers.
    Add palm sugar to the broth.
  12. Add 2 tbsp there. l with top pasta tom yum.
    Next, add tom yam paste to the soup.
  13. When the paste dissolves, pour in 6-10 tbsp. l fish sauce and about 0.5 tsp. salt.
    Add salt and fish sauce as well.
  14. Squeeze juice from kafir lime and ½ regular lime.
    Squeeze juice from limes.
  15. Add chopped purple onions, kafir juice and regular lime to the soup.
    Add lime juice and onion to the soup.
  16. Rinse 5 pcs. cherry tomatoes, cut in half and add to the soup.
    Cherry tomatoes are cut in half and sent to the pan.
  17. Next add 3 tbsp. l coconut milk and previously peeled shrimp.
    Add coconut milk and shrimp to an almost ready soup.
  18. Once the shrimp has turned pink, remove the soup from the heat.
    When the shrimp is ready, immediately turn off the soup.
  19. Serve the finished tom yum with fresh, chopped cilantro.
    So you got acquainted with the recipe for shrimp tom yam soup.

Cooking recommendations

  • Instead of water, you can take chicken stock.
  • Thais cook tom yam with lemongrass. If you have this lemon grass, add it to the broth.
  • Oyster mushrooms can be replaced with champignons.
  • In the case of adding fish sauce, focus on your taste. If the taste of fish sauce is already enough for you, but there is no salt yet, salt with ordinary salt.
  • Instead of fresh, you can use boiled shrimp, in which case you need to add them at the very end and immediately remove the soup from the heat.

Video recipe

You can see all the cooking processes. watching a step-by-step video recipe.

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Article updated: 24.04.2019

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