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Sumptuous Thai dishes you can make at home! Thai cuisine creates a harmonious blend between spicy hot and comparatively bland ingredients from age-old Eastern and relatively new Western foods. Featuring both outstanding traditional recipes and cutting-edge crowd-pleasers such as Spicy Fried Rice Sticks, Salmon Toast, Chicken Satay, and Thai Crab Cakes, The Everything® Thai Cookbook guides you through preparing meals as good as you’d find in your favorite Thai restaurant. The Every...

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The Everything Thai Cookbook: From Pad Thai to Lemongrass Chicken Skewers--300 Tasty, Tempting Thai Dishes to You Can Make at Home (Everything Series)

Authors: Jennifer Malott Kotylo

Date: November 2002

ISBN: 1580627331

Publisher: Adams Media Corporation

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Tom Yum
Recipe from: The Everything Thai Cookbook
by Jennifer Malott Kotylo
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You can substitute chicken for the shrimp in this dish. Cut up 1 boneless, skinless chicken breast into bite-sized pieces, add the pieces during step 2, and poach for about 8 minutes before proceeding.

Servings: 4-6

4 to 5 cups water
3 shallots, finely chopped
2 stalks lemongrass, bruised and cut into l-inch-long segments
2 tablespoons fish sauce
2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
20 medium-sized shrimp, shelled but with tails left on
1 can straw mushrooms, drained
2 to 3 teaspoons sliced kaffir lime leaves or lime zest
3 tablespoons lime juice
2 to 3 Thai chili peppers, seeded and minced

Pour the water into a medium-sized soup pot. Add the shallots, lemon-grass, fish sauce, and ginger. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 3 minutes.
Add the shrimp and mushrooms, and cook until the shrimp turn pink. Stir in the lime zest, lime juice, and chili peppers.
Cover and remove from the heat. Let the soup steep for 5 to 10 minutes before serving.

Tom Yum Soup for Life:
A joint study by Thailand's Kasetsart University and Japan's Kyoto and Kinki Universities has found that the ingredients in Tom Yum soup are 100 times more effective in inhibiting cancerous tumor; growth than other foods. No wonder it's Thailand's bestselling soup!

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