Tom Kha step by step recipe with photo

Kitchen appliances and utensils

To prepare the soup, prepare all the necessary ingredients. Rinse 200 g of champignons, 200 g of cherry tomatoes, 1 chili pepper, 1 galangal, 2 lemongrass roots and 20 g of parsley. Cut the galangal into large pieces. Peel the lemongrass and slice 2 cm diagonally.
Cut champignons into large pieces. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half.
Peel a small onion and cut into 4-6 parts.
Finely chop the parsley with a knife.
Take 500 g of chicken breast, peel and separate the meat from the bone.
Chicken cut into thin slices.
Pour 250 ml of coconut milk into the pan, add chopped galangal, lemongrass, and chili pepper, cut in half.
Bring the milk to a boil over low heat. Next, add chopped chicken and 300 g of broth. Cook the meat for 10 minutes and add the cherry tomatoes, onions and mushrooms. Mix everything.
Add to the soup 1 tbsp. l fish sauce, 1 tbsp. l rice vinegar, 1 tsp. sugar and ½ tsp salt.
Boil for another 5 minutes, cover and remove from heat. Serve Tom Kh soup hot. Enjoy your meal.

To make Tom Kh soup, you will need a set of special spices, which can be found in large supermarkets.
Soup broth can be cooked from bone and skin from chicken breast.
Rice vinegar can be replaced with lime juice or apple cider vinegar.
Serve the soup immediately after cooking to preserve the structure of tomatoes and the crunch of mushrooms. Before serving, you can remove galangal, lemongrass and chili from the soup.

In this step-by-step video recipe, you can see all the cooking processes of Thai Tom Kha soup.

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