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Learning to cook Thai Spicy Seafood Soup is easy if you
know the proper way to add the ingredients. Now you can learn to cook this
dish at home using the online video. In
the online video 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 cooking Thai
Spicy Seafood Soup video
and take
notes. |
Thai Spicy Seafood Soup
Po Taek
- 2 cups of water or chicken stock
- 50g shrimp or prawns
- 50g Sea Bass, skinned and cleaned
- 50g squid and cut into 2cm pieces
- 50g mussels in their shell cleaned (optional)
- 50g crab in shell cleaned (optional)
- 5 kaffir leaves torn
- 3 this slices of fresh or dried galangal
- 1 stalk lemongrass cut into 1 – 2 inch pieces
- 2 ½ tbsp Thai fish sauce
- 2 ½ tbsp lime juice
- ¼ cup sweet basil leaves
- Pinch of salt
- 3 green and red birds eye chilies
- 1 dried red chili, fried slightly and cut into ½ inch pieces
Wash, peel and de-vein prawns or shrimp, remove the heads but keep the tails intact. Bring water or stock to boil in a sauce pan
over medium heat then add lemongrass, galangal and lime leaves. Cook until fragrant. Add all the seafood except the shrimp or
prawns (DO NOT STIR) and wait until they change color then add the shrimp or prawns. Cook a few more minutes then add the sweet
basil leaves, swirl gently and turn off heat.
In a serving bowl, (Do this while waiting for the sauce pan to boil) combine lime juice, chilies and fish sauce. Add the ingredients
from the sauce pan when done to the serving bowl. Mix bottom to top and top with the dried red chilies and sprig of sweet basil.
The soup should be spicy, sour and salty with aroma of sweet basil and dried red chilies.
If you would like to learn
how to cook Thai food from Thai Chef Chanrat Karatna at his Thai cooking school
in
Chiang Mai Thailand, contact us. |
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