This month at Cooking Around the World we’re heading to Thailand. My google-fu suggested I make Tom Yum Soup. I agreed.
Now . . . I live in a very Asian area. I very easily could have gotten all the ingredients I needed to make this authentic. But I just don’t have money to be spending on ingredients I don’t use frequently. So I subbed and I skipped and I made a soup with too many noodles (oops!) But you know, it doesn’t matter. It still tasted delicious.
If you want the authentic recipe go to the source. If you want mine . . . well, it’s below.
Faux Tom Yum Soup
(source)
Ingredients
1 package soba noodles
2 1/2 cups water
1 stalk lemongrass
1 tomato, chopped
12 shrimp, peeled and deveined
12 mushrooms, sliced
1 tbsp chili garlic sauce
3 tbsp lime juice
Directions
1. Cook the noodles to the package directions. Drain and set aside.
2. In a pot bring the water to a boil. Add the lemongrass, tomato, shrimp, mushrooms, and chili garlic sauce. Boil until the shrimp is cooked all the way through. Turn off the heat and add the lime juice. Stir together.
3. Pour the broth over the noodles. Toss the noodles into the sauce.
* serves 2
* Besides Cooking Around The World, this is shared with See Ya In The Gumbo
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Great! Thank you for joining us. It’s very good to get a version, where you don’t have to go around to much for fetching all the special ingredients. I have to admit, I just recognised recently, that I didn’t really manage to use up all those special ingredients I had gotten. So, next time, I think twice.
I’m not familiar with this soup, but I like shrimp and mushrooms. So much more practical to use what you already have! Thank you for linking up with See Ya in the Gumbo!