Hot and sour soup
Знадоби
1 litre chicken stock (I use home-made, or marigold bouillon)1 tsp Thai Red Curry Paste
1 tbslp Thai fish sauce (Nam Pla)
1/2 lemon or lime, juice only
2 lime leaves, finely sliced
5cm of lemon grass stalk, finely sliced
100g mushrooms (chestnut or canned straw mushrooms), sliced
1 spring onion, sliced
Optional
200g of peeled and deveined prawns or shredded chicken
Як готувати
Heat the stock in a saucepan and add the curry paste, fish sauce, lime leaves, lemon grass, lemon juice and chillies.Taste and add more curry paste if necessary.
Bring to the boil and simmer for a couple of minutes.
Add the mushrooms, the prawns or chicken and the spring onion and simmer for a further 2-3 minutes until the prawns are cooked or the chicken heated through.
Serve decorated with coriander leaves and a couple of birds eye chillies.
