Lazybone Home-cooked Tom Yum
11 Dec
At times I felt like eating something appetizing and sourish, but not too spicy. Therefore I have been thinking …..Hmm….It would be great uh if I could polish myself up with a presentable Tom Yam dish.
How about the Tom Yam soup base? It could be tedious if I were to prepare it from zero. Well, the lazybone here thought of trying the ready-made Tom Yam paste available in the market. What could be easier than just dumping everything into the pot then when you need not worry about the paste?!
There I went with my homecooked Tom Yum, by adding some extra ingredients to enhance the kicks!
I tried two brands of Tom Yum paste.
One is Peace brand Thai Tom-Yum Instant Sour Shrimp Paste. Another one is Thai Boy Thai Tom Yum Soup Paste. The former one is more sourish.
I did not add much spices except :
The kaffir lime leaves (daun limau purut) (available mostly in Malay sundry shops).
Firstly I have to make sure that I can get this, then only I will start to search for other ingredients. I added one stalk for the fragrance. I simply love its smell!
I added 4 to 5 stalks of lemongrass (serai), some curry flower (bunga kantan) (optional) and curry leaves (optional).
Raw ingredients in general. Most of the raw meat ingredients, I poached first and set aside, to avoid spoiling the taste of the soup.
Onions , tomatoes, lady fingers, oyster mushrooms, dried mushrooms and cabbages. The spices and vege ingredients – I dumped in firstly. [...]
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