Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (tom kha gai). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Find Gourmet Chicken Soup and Related Articles. 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. So Tom Kha Gai means Chicken galangal soup. Tom Kha Gai is seasoned primarily with lime juice and fish sauce.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (tom kha gai) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai):
- Prepare 300 grams chicken
- Prepare 400 ml coconut milk
- Take 200 ml Chicken stock
- Take 1 rhizome of galangal (or 3 Tsp Galangal paste)
- Take 2 stalks lemon grass (cut to 3 fingers long pieces and bruise them)
- Make ready 2 shallots (bruise them)
- Take 3-4 Kaffir Lime leaves
- Make ready 2 teaspoon Tamarind paste
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Demerara sugar
- Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Get 2.5 tablespoon fish sauce
- Prepare 2.5 tablespoon Lime (Half large Lime)
- Make ready 4-5 bird eyes chillies (up to your taste)
- Prepare 4-5 dried chillies (you don't need to put this, if you don't have)
- Prepare Coriander for garnish
The soup is found all over Thailand and is a classic among Thai soups. There are many varieties of the soup, some can be a bit spicy, but the versions I have had in Thailand have. 'Gai' means chicken. So a Tom kha gai soup, known for its creamy coconut is actually referred to as a boiled aromatic soup that contains galangal and chicken. There are other variations to tom kha soup.
Instructions to make Chicken in coconut soup with galangal and chillies (Tom Kha Gai):
- 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.
- 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.
- Add 3/4 coconut milk and then bring it up to the boil.
- 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.
- 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).
- Add back toasted dried chillies and garnish with coriander.
So a Tom kha gai soup, known for its creamy coconut is actually referred to as a boiled aromatic soup that contains galangal and chicken. There are other variations to tom kha soup. A tom kha goong for example would be made with prawns and the liquid would be water or prawn stock. Bring the coconut milk to a boil and add the galangal, lemon grass, shallot and kaffir lime leaves. Add the chicken, salt and simmer slowly over low heat.
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