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Tom Kai Gai Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • In a medium heavy saucepan saute the oil, garlic and onion until becoming transparent.
  • Stir in the lemongrass, curry paste, galangal (ginger) and lime leaves and continue stiring for 3-4 minutes..
  • Add the chicken stock and bring to a boil then reduce the heat to medium and cook for 15 minutes.
  • Add the mushrooms, then turn it off for 30 minutes to an hour to let the flavors meld a bit and allow the mushrooms to soak in the flavor.
  • Heat the soup back up, add the coconut milk, chicken, mushrooms, peppers, and scallions. Cook for about 5 minutes or just until the chicken is cooked. Add the fish sauce and lime juice.
  • You can either take out the flavor items that you won't eat (galangal, ginger, lime leaves, lemongrass), or leave it in to be take out by those enjoying the soup.
  • Sprinkle in some cilantro and serve! Enjoy.

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    " It was excellent "
    sunny ate it and said...
    I Love this soup!
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  • ejergens 16 years ago
    I absolutely LOVE this soup. My husband and I eat this out alot. But now, I got a recipe!! Awesome!
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    " It was excellent "
    mystic_river1 ate it and said...
    HELP!!!! Just made this again but this time for company..they loved it...but now I can't get them to leave!
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    " It was excellent "
    mystic_river1 ate it and said...
    Oh my!! That is excruciatingly delicious! Thank you for a brilliant recipe..love it!
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  • wmhaynes 16 years ago
    You can get dried lemon grass. There's a great website called ethnicgrocer.com where you can order things in the US. If you have a fancy grocery store like whole foods, or an asian grocery you'll find the galangal but otherwise, just use the ginger. You need to use the ginger root, not the shoots for the flavor. Feel free to modify it a bit, but I think this will bring back memories for you. :-) William
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  • linebb956 16 years ago
    questions, questions, questions... Do you think I can get dried lemon grass? Living here is sometimes like a third world country when it comes to grocerys! And the galangal what is that? I have ginger growing in a big pot on my porch, can you use the green shoots for cooking? When I buy ginger, if I don't use it right away I plant it... I even got pineapple growing from the tops of fresh pineapple.
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