Tom Yaam Goong (Spicy Prawn Soup Flavored With Lemon Grass)

This recipe is from a cooking class I took at a resort in Thailand (Le Royal Meridian Phuket Yacht Club). I hope you are fortunate enough to have an Asian food market in your area so you can find the ingredients as this soup is absolutely delicious!

• Ready In: 22 mins
• Serves: 10-15

Ingredients

• 4  liters  chicken stock
• 120  g lemongrass
• 100  g galangal
• 500  g  straw mushrooms
• 600  g tiger shrimp
• 200  ml lime juice
• 40  g sugar
• 200  ml fish sauce
• 60  g  chili in  oil
• 20  kaffir lime leaves
• 5  red chilies, sliced
• 100  ml  whipping cream or 100  ml heavy whipping cream
•  coriander leaves (cilantro)
•  chili oil

Directions

1. Bring chicken stock to a boil.
2. Add lemon grass, galangal, straw mushrooms.
3. Season to taste with lime juice, sugar, fish sauce and chili in oil.
4. Add kafir lime juice, red chili sliced and cream.
5. Add shrimp, cook approximately 30 seconds longer, until shrimp barely done.
6. Garnish with coriander leaves and a few drops of chili oil on top.