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Chicken and Galangal Coconut Cream Soup doesn't take long
to cook. You can replace the chicken with any meat or seafood. Now you
can learn to cook this dish at home using the online videos. In
the 2 online videos you will be taught by Chef Chanrat Karatna, nickname
Air,
and
his staff not only how to cook Thai Fried noodles but about the ingredients.
In
the second video you will see how his
students do at his cooking school Air's Thai Culinary Kitchen.
Copy the recipe below then watch
the Thai
Chicken and Galangal Coconut Cream Soup video
and take
notes. |
Thai Chicken and Galangal Coconut Cream Soup
Tom Kha Gai
- ¾ cup chicken stock or plain water
- 200g chicken breast (skinned)
- 10g thinly sliced fresh young galangal
- ½ cup coconut cream
- ¾ cup coconut milk
- 6g kaffir lime leaves, stem removed and torn
- 10g red shallots. peeled
- 40g straw mushrooms sliced, substitute with chanterelles or oysters mushrooms torn
- 10 grams or 1 stalk of lemon grass bruised and sliced into 1 inch lengths
- 1 tbsp coriander or cilantro leaves
- 1 coriander root scraped
- 1 - 2 tbsp lime juice
- 1 - 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce
- 10g red bird’s eye chilies
In a sauce pan, combine stock or water with coconut cream and coconut milk. Boil over high heat. Add the galangal, lemongrass, red shallots, chilies, coriander root and mushrooms.
Add the chicken and simmer until tender. Add the kaffir lime leaves, fish sauce and lime juice and continue simmering until fragrant. Remove from heat and transfer to the serving bowl. Garnish with fresh coriander and serve.
The soup should be rich and creamy, salty, sour and spicy.
If you would like to learn how to cook Thai food from Chef Chanrat Karatna at
his Thai cooking school in Chiang Mai Thailand, contact us. |
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