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Recipe: Thai Chicken Soup (Tom Ka Gai)
WHB #219
February 02, 2010

Lemon grassAs I told you in the previous post, I harvested some lemon grass, and I used some for the famous thai chicken soup, Tom Ka Gai or Dom Yam Gai.

ArcobalenoIt's really quick to prepare, and... ah, I don't know if I'm able to describe how it makes you feel. It's special like this double rainbow (it's not a trick, there were really two rainbows in the sky), warm like a tender hug.
The spiciness of ginger and chili will makes you breathe well and the soft taste of coconut can't be forget soon.

I used a thai chili for this recipe, the Thai Dragon, but any red chili pepper is okay.
Serves two as a starter, one as single course.

Thai Chicken SoupThai Chicken Soup (Tom Ka Gai)

Ingredients
Serves two:
200g chicken breast
1 lemon grass stalk
1cm ginger
1 red chili pepper
100ml coconut cream
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp oil

Directions
Mince the lemon grass, cut the ginger and the chili into slices.
Put them in a pot with the oil and fry one minute. Pour 150ml of water and the coconut cream in the pot and bring to a boil.
Add the cubed chicken breast, the fish sauce and the lemon juice and cook five minutes.
Serve immediately.

This goes to Simona from Briciole who's hosting this week's edition of Weekend Herb Blogging.
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Comments
Author: Simona (URL)
02/05/2010

Beautiful photo of the double rainbow! And very nice soup, comforting. Thanks for participating.

Author: Joanne (URL)
09/02/2010

I love thai flavors! Definitely need to try this soup. It looks delicious.

Author: Graziana
09/02/2010

I finished my coconut cream and I can t wait to buy some more to cook this soup again and again...

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