Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (tom kha gai). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Chicken in coconut soup is a comforting food. The flavours are creamy, sweet, salty and sour. Thai herbs such as galangal and lemongrass are fresh and. Tom kha gai is the coconut-based soup common in the central part of Thailand.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (tom kha gai) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai):
- Get 300 grams chicken
- Get 400 ml coconut milk
- Prepare 200 ml Chicken stock
- Get 1 rhizome of galangal (or 3 Tsp Galangal paste)
- Make ready 2 stalks lemon grass (cut to 3 fingers long pieces and bruise them)
- Take 2 shallots (bruise them)
- Take 3-4 Kaffir Lime leaves
- Get 2 teaspoon Tamarind paste
- Get 1 tablespoon Demerara sugar
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Take 2.5 tablespoon fish sauce
- Get 2.5 tablespoon Lime (Half large Lime)
- Prepare 4-5 bird eyes chillies (up to your taste)
- Get 4-5 dried chillies (you don't need to put this, if you don't have)
- Get Coriander for garnish
You can use chicjen breast if you prefer them to the chicken thigh meat. This helps to release the flavour into the soup. Using a large saucepan- combine the stock, lemongrass pieces, galangal, whole lime leaves and coriander. This classic chicken and coconut soup gets its rich and dynamic flavor from quintessential Thai ingredients: coconut milk, lemongrass, fresh ginger, lime juice, fish sauce, chile paste, basil, and cilantro.
Instructions to make Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai):
- Toast some dried chillies with a little oil in another pot that we will make the Tom Kha soup in. Take out the toasted dried chillies. Leave them on the side. We will use these dried chillies to garnish at the end.
- Boil chicken stock with galangal, lemon grass, shallots and a pinch of salt in to the pot. Once it’s boiling, put chicken. Then simmer with the medium heat. Don't stir them.
- Add 3/4 coconut milk and then bring it up to the boil.
- Stir them, then add tomatoes, mushroom, chopped chillies, the rest of coconut milk, sugar and tamarind paste. Stir them and bring it up to the boil.
- Add kaffir lime leaves, Turn off the heat and add fish sauce and lime juice. Mix them and taste it and add more salt, chillies or lime (up to your taste).
- Add back toasted dried chillies and garnish with coriander.
Using a large saucepan- combine the stock, lemongrass pieces, galangal, whole lime leaves and coriander. This classic chicken and coconut soup gets its rich and dynamic flavor from quintessential Thai ingredients: coconut milk, lemongrass, fresh ginger, lime juice, fish sauce, chile paste, basil, and cilantro. While warming and thoroughly comforting, this dish comes together incredibly quickly. Galangal (the 'kha' in tom kha kai), kaffir (or makrut) lime leaves, and lemongrass have come to define tom kha kai. Some people will tell you that you can But if you cannot find the fresh galangal and kaffir lime leaves, either locally or online, you can use tom kha paste, which comes in small glass jars.
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