Thai Galangal Chicken Soup ( Tom Ka Gai)
photo by Dariusz .
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
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Soup or Stock Base
- 3 cups chicken stock, gluten-free if required for diet (750ml)
- 20 g fresh galangal, peeled and sliced thickly
- 2 sticks fresh lemongrass, cut into 5 cm pieces
- 4 kaffir lime leaves
- 2 teaspoons coriander roots, and stems (cilantro)
- 500 g chicken thigh fillets or 500 g chicken breast fillets, sliced thinly
- 200 g straw mushrooms, drained and rinsed under clean water
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 4 teaspoons lime juice
- 4 teaspoons fish sauce, gluten-free if required for diet
- 1 teaspoon grated palm sugar or 1 teaspoon brown sugar
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Ingredients to add just before serving
- 1⁄4 cup loosely packed fresh coriander leaves (Cilantro)
- 2 fresh small thai red chilies, seeded and sliced thinly
- 2 fresh kaffir lime leaves, shredded
- 1 stick fresh lemongrass, sliced thinly
directions
- Cut the lemongrass into 5 cm pieces and pound the pieces with the side of your kitchen knife to bruise them. This helps to release the flavour into the soup.
- Using a large saucepan- combine the stock, lemongrass pieces, galangal, whole lime leaves and coriander (cilantro) roots and stems mixture. Bring to the boil. Reduce the heat. Simmer covered for 5 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and allow to stand for 10 minutes.
- Strain the stock through muslin or a fine strainer into a large heatproof bowl. Discard the solids.
- Rinse your saucepan.
- Return your stock/soup base to the same saucepan.
- Add chicken and straw mushrooms. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 5 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through.
- Stir in the coconut milk, lime juice, fish sauce and the sugar. Cook, stirring, until only just heated through. Do not boil. Remove from heat.
- Add the remaining ingredients- coriander (cilantro) leaves, red chillies, kaffir lime leaves and the lemon grass slices.
- Serve hot.
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Reviews
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Absolutely delicious! This recipe of Tom Ka Gai is among the best I've had. I'm fortunate to have an Asian grocery store near the house and a kaffir lime tree in the back yard, so I didn't have to substitute any ingredients. I realized after I took the photo that I left off the red pepper, but added it while eating. It provided the perfect amount of heat. Made for Mike and the Appliance Killers ZWT9.
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Delicious Jubes, just delicious. My dh & I love thai soup and this treat did not disappoint. Wow, what flavor. Love the use of the galangal and coriander root and stems. I used a crush lemongrass paste, frozen kaffir lime leaves and substituted red pepper flakes for the red chilies, as I couldn't find any. The flavor of this soup is fantastic, so many beautiful seasonings. Thank you so much for sharing a recipe, that I will make again often. :)
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I love this soup!!! I love it when I go out for Thai food and this recipe is as good as any I have ordered. I reduced the quantities for two of us and didn't have straw mushrooms so subbed quartered button mushrooms. I also swapped out the chilis for chili oil (didn't have those either) and was thrilled with the result. Thanks so much for posting Jubes! Made for ZWT6 on behalf of the Looney Spoon Phoodies.
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Delicious Jubes, just delicious. My dh & I love thai soup and this treat did not disappoint. Wow, what flavor. Love the use of the galangal and coriander root and stems. I used a crush lemongrass paste, frozen kaffir lime leaves and substituted red pepper flakes for the red chilies, as I couldn't find any. The flavor of this soup is fantastic, so many beautiful seasonings. Thank you so much for sharing a recipe, that I will make again often. :)
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Jubes
Australia
Aussie Mum - gluten-free