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Thai Chicken Soup With Coconut Milk, "Tom Kha Gai"



Ingredients

16 fluid ounces soup broth (chicken stock)
4-5 kaffir lime leaves, shredded
2 inch piece lemon grass, bruised to release flavor
1 inch cube galangal sliced thinly.
4 tablespoons fish sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice
4 oz chicken breast cut into smallish bite sized pieces
5 fluid ounces coconut milk
small red Thai chile peppers, slightly crushed (to taste)
coriander (cilantro) leaves to garnish.

Note the number of red peppers is a personal choice. It can be as few as half a chilli per diner, to as many as 8-10 per diner, but the dish should retain a balance of flavors and not be overwhelmend by the chili peppers. We suggest about 8-12 chili peppers for this recipe.

Method

Heat the stock, add the lime leaves, lemon grass, galangal, fish sauce, and lime juice. Stir thoroughly, bring to a boil, and add the chicken and coconut milk. Bring back to the boil, lower the heat to keep it simmering and cook for about 2 minutes (until the chicken is cooked through).

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
304 Thai main dish recipes at recipezaar, sorted by highest rated

If you want to, you can even search them for main ingredient.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
meatballs
beef salad
chicken satay
pork tenderloin

What are you in the mood for?
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Missed your list of ingredients... Still, recipezaar should have something.
 

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Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
 
romanylass, what's your peanut sauce recipe?
 

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Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
 
Drizzle a few tsp peanut oil or sesame oil in acast iron skillet. Add 1 jalepeno, diced ( seed it if you're "sensitive") and crush in several cloves of garlic. Stir in 1/2 cup natural peanut butter ( NOT a sweetened one) 250 ml water or coconut milk, and 75 ml soy sauce or shoyu. Once all is blended and warmed it's ready to use, but I like to keep it on low for about 1/2 an hour

OK, kq, you've just dictated my afternoon activities for me.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
I loooove recipezaar. I get almost all my best recipes there, and it's so easy to use.
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
You know, there's a really convenient place to share all your recipes.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Hmmm. Maybe I should post my rhubarb pie recipe.
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
Mmmmm. I love Thai food! I'm gonna get me some Thai basil just cuz I love it so much! Mmmmm. . .

Oh hey, we have a coconut shredder in our new place. One of these days - when my computer is working again - I'll post a pic of it with some Fahim shredding action.
 

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Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
 
I love pictures of men cooking.
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
Oh hey, I don't want a picture. I want the real thing.

Unfortunately, Fahim won't. He won't even microwave a blasted thing. It's not that he's incapable - he isn't. He's just lazy.

And he works and I don't, so this is my role.
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
Oh crap.

There are days when I'm so unbelievably slow on the uptake.

This is further proof that today is one of those days.

On the other hand, I was accurate in the above statement. Fahim won't cook. But he will show me how to shred coconut. Yeah, I'm pathetic. Sheesh.
 

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Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
 
I just realized that no one else is posting. It occured to me that dinner might be the reason. Or there's some show on Tuesday nights that everyone watches but me. I guess it is almost time for Nova, so I could go into the kitchen and cook and watch Nova.
 

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