Thai Cuisine Recipe - Tom Yam Goong

I love Thai cuisine. It is very spicey, complex yet simple. There is also a wide vaiety of dishes considered Thai. I love eating as well as cooking Thai food. I decided to share some Thai Cusines recipes with you. I hope you will read this and try making a few for yourself.

The first receipe I am going to share is also one of my favorites. The only problem you might have is finding all the correct ingredients in order to make it.

This dish is Prawn and Coconut Milk Soup - or - Tom Yam Goong in Thai.

Ingredients - What you need

• 2 1/2 cups thin coconut milk
• 4 slices galangal about .5 centimeters thick
• 2 stalks lemon grass, bruised and cut into two 4 CM pience
• 6-8 medium sized peeled raw prawns
• 2-6 straw mushrooms cut in half
• 2-7 small Thai chillies
• 2 kaffir lime leaves with stalk removed
• 1/2 cup thick coconut milk
• 1 tablespoon chilli paste
• 2 tablespoons lime or lemon juice
• 1 1/2 tablespoons fish sauce

Preparations:

1. turn burner on medium and place the thin coconut milk into wok. Add galangal and lemon grass. Bring to gentle boil, stir constantly.
2. Add prawns and cook until tender.
3. Add mushrooms then the think coconut cream, lime leaves, chillies and chilli paste. Cook another 4-5 minutes.
4. Turn off heat then add lime juice and fish sauce. Do not cook the fish sauce and lime juice in the soup or the flavor will change.
5. Serve hot

Eat hardily and enjoy til full. I hope you try it. The flavor is well worth the effort. Oh yeah it is usually eaten with white rice.

My name is Darwin and this is to your on stove success.