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Thai cuisine includes some of the most diverse culinary flavors in the world – each meal must contain a wide variety of dishes that incorporate all the taste buds. Thai food not only includes tastes like spicy and sour and sweet but also combines a mixture of stir fried, steamed, boiled, deep fried and lots of soups.
Thai tom yum goong (ต้มยำกุ้ง) is one of the most popular and widely available soups in Thai cuisine. It’s a soup that’s spiced with chilies, flavored with shrimp or another meat, and made sour with lime juice. Each bite of Thai tom yum is like a burst of invigorating flavor.
In this HD video recipe today, we’ll be going over the ingredients and I’ll show you exactly how to make some of the best Thai soup ever! Making Thai soups is not extremely complicated, but you just have to remember that you have to cook your food to your exact taste – there’s no precise measuring when it comes to cooking Thai food – it’s really up to you and your tongue. Be sure to taste quite frequently when you cook this soup! It should be slightly salty, spicy to your taste and quite sour.
So here is my mother in law’s home cooked recipe for the ultimate Thai tom yum goong.
วิธีทำต้มยำกุ้ง
First here are the ingredients you’ll need:
1.5 liters of water
1 thumb size chunk of galangal
8 kaffir lime leaves
4 stalks of lemongrass
8 cloves of garlic
2 sweet white onions
3 red tomatoes
1/4 kilo of raw shrimp
red or green chillies
handful bunch of cilantro
2 – 3 handfuls of mushrooms
4 – 5 limes
2 tablespoons of Thai chili paste (prik pao)
1 teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoons of sugar
2 tablespoons of fish sauce
Like I mentioned above, Thai food is all about the way it tastes for yourself. This list of ingredients is just a guide and you should take it and adapt it to your own tastes. If you don’t think it’s salty enough, add more fish sauce or salt or if it’s not sour enough add more lime juice!
Thai soup should be eaten with a meal that includes a number of other Thai dishes as well as bowls of rice. Instead of scooping the soup into individual bowls for eaters, the Thai way to eat is to just have a single communal bowl of soup and all eaters dip their spoon into the soup to enjoy it together!
Please continue to watch this video for all the vital recipe information on the steps to make your delicious tom yum goong (ต้มยำกุ้ง)!
Thank you for watching and please leave a comment below to let me know how your soup was!
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I can not wait to try this. Thanks a million.
I’ve made this dish several times and it’s always a win! Thanks again!
I found it via google and fall in love with the voice alone before i recognized it's my fave Mark! Blessings to you and your family))
The best soup in sea food kind in pattaya walk streets
For a liter of tom yam soup i make a garlic Shallot paste with 1-2 Shalots and half of a Garlic head so ~6 cloves and add it to the soup
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Just made this with less spice though and it came out great! My mom loved it, thank you!
I’m glad you speak English.
This was a good recipe ! Just tried it and my family loved it. Just put the shrimps in later of the process and put the lime or lemon juice after you turn the fire off. I just put 1 fat lime and it was sour enough. Also put the salt just before you eat since it will taste more salty after it cools off. So taste and adjust as you need after it cools off a bit. Oh and you must try this with rice !! Just plain white rice will do. It goes so well with the Tom Yum Goong it’s a match made it heaven.
Where is the coconut milk????????? Duuuuuuhhhh
Wrong procedure what a dummy
Made this tonight was delish ???
Thank you. I’ll try to make it.
Thank you mark for share the recipe
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This is not good why you use lemon juice when flam on lemon juice always use in last step
Galangal is just ginger innit
Thank you Mark.. I cooked this and mine becomes too spicy luckily they like it.. Thanks Again..
Oh no I don't know how to convert into metric ?
What about the white fish fillet? What type of fish is that?
love tom yum soup
If I keep the lime leaves for long, is it gonna taste bad? Cuz mine got bitter. Or is it because I've used ginger instead of galangal? Please advise me.
i really enjoy your recipe
Mark! I cooked this and it was a complete hit! (The only thing I changed was adding the shrimp at the end.) I brought it for a potluck and even those who have never tried Tom Yum were over the moon. Thank you for an easy to follow and perfect recipe! It is now one of my to go recipes for my family and friends.