How to Make Tom Yum Soup Recipe
Tom Yum Soup is one of the easiest, quickest, most flavorful soups! It’s bold yet light, tart, salty and citrusy, bursting with layer upon layer of intoxicating flavor from the lemongrass, garlic, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, lime juice, and fish sauce along with tender juicy shrimp and mushrooms. This Tom Yum Soup recipe is naturally gluten free and can be made vegetarian and vegan as well. I’ve also included pantry friendly substitutions for the more exotic ingredients such as galangal and kaffir lime leaves that aren't authentic but they taste like it! Because everyone needs Tom Yum Soup in their life! v
Ingredients
Instructions
Prep lemongrass by chopping off the bottom and the spiky tops. Peel off the tough outer green layer to reveal the softer whitish/green part. Press the stalks with the side of your knife to bruise, then cut them into thirds.
Heat vegetable in a large stock pot over medium heat. Add red curry paste, lemongrass and onions and sauté for 2 minutes. Add garlic and sauté 30 seconds.
Add the rest of the soup ingredients through the pepper (up to the "add later" ingredients). Cover and bring to a boil, then lower heat to medium-low. Gently simmer, covered, for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes, strain the broth by transferring to a colander over a pot then return the broth to the soup pot.
Stir in lime juice, mushrooms, tomatoes and shrimp. Simmer 2-3 additional minutes or until shrimp is cooked through.
Taste and add additional lime juice for more sour/citrus, more chili sauce for more heat, more sugar for sweeter/less tangy, more fish sauce for saltier etc. Garnish individual servings with cilantro.
