Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai)
Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai)

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T hai Coconut Chicken Soup Recipe link to video if the video above does not load for you. Breaking apart and transliterating the Thai you get 'Tom' meaning cook by boiling (as in soup), 'Kha' which is the word for galangal and 'gai' which means chicken. To make tom kha gai, cook with correct herbs and spices.

Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (tom kha gai) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai):
  1. Take 300 grams chicken
  2. Prepare 400 ml coconut milk
  3. Make ready 200 ml Chicken stock
  4. Make ready 1 rhizome of galangal (or 3 Tsp Galangal paste)
  5. Make ready 2 stalks lemon grass (cut to 3 fingers long pieces and bruise them)
  6. Make ready 2 shallots (bruise them)
  7. Get 3-4 Kaffir Lime leaves
  8. Get 2 teaspoon Tamarind paste
  9. Get 1 tablespoon Demerara sugar
  10. Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
  11. Make ready 2.5 tablespoon fish sauce
  12. Take 2.5 tablespoon Lime (Half large Lime)
  13. Get 4-5 bird eyes chillies (up to your taste)
  14. Prepare 4-5 dried chillies (you don't need to put this, if you don't have)
  15. Take Coriander for garnish

Add the chicken, salt and simmer slowly over low heat. When the chicken is cooked through, pour the coconut cream into the soup, stir gently, and when the soup returns to a boil, turn off the heat. Add the fish sauce, lime juice, and chilies. Tom Kha Gai - Thai Chicken Coconut Soup is one of the most popular Thai dishes.

Steps to make Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai):
  1. Toast some dried chillies with a little oil in another pot that we will make the Tom Kha soup in. Take out the toasted dried chillies. Leave them on the side. We will use these dried chillies to garnish at the end.
  2. Boil chicken stock with galangal, lemon grass, shallots and a pinch of salt in to the pot. Once it’s boiling, put chicken. Then simmer with the medium heat. Don't stir them.
  3. Add 3/4 coconut milk and then bring it up to the boil.
  4. Stir them, then add tomatoes, mushroom, chopped chillies, the rest of coconut milk, sugar and tamarind paste. Stir them and bring it up to the boil.
  5. Add kaffir lime leaves, Turn off the heat and add fish sauce and lime juice. Mix them and taste it and add more salt, chillies or lime (up to your taste).
  6. Add back toasted dried chillies and garnish with coriander.

Galangal root, lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves are infused in a coconut milk broth, with chicken, mushrooms and hot chilies. The aromatic soup makes a delicious main course served alongside steamed rice. Authentic Tom Kha Gai - a simple delicious recipe for one of Thailand's most popular soups! Full of fragrant Thai ingredients like lemongrass, kefir lime, ginger and galanga root, this Thai Coconut Chicken Soup can be made on the stove top on in an Instant Pot. I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything.

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