Recipe - "Tom Yum Glass Noodles Soup"

 

Tom Yum glass noodles soup

 

 

Simple Tom Yum Noodle Soup

Tom Yum soup is spicy, sour, flavourful, refreshing and is perfect for the cold weather. The soup is easy to make using ready made paste.

Chicken, fish cake and prawns



Button mushrooms, tomatoes, fresh chillies, lemon grass and kaffir lime leaves

Tom Yum paste (Penta brand)



Ingredients

2 servings

 

200 gm chicken breast

2 tbsp of Penta tom yum paste

2 tomatoes

3 to 4 stalks of lemon grass (slightly pounded)

6 to 8 kaffir lime leaves

1 to 2 fresh finger length red chillies (seeds removed)

1 litre chicken stock

1 tbsp vegetable oil/shallots oil

 

Other ingredients

6 slices of fish cake

6 medium size prawns (cleaned, peeled, divined)

4 big button mushrooms

(You can also add squid, fish, fish balls and etc…)

 

1 tsp lime juice

1 tbsp of fish sauce

 

Bean thread noodles (glass noodles)

(Bring a pot, let it boil, add noodles. The noodles turn transparent when thoroughly cooked). Remove and place into a bowl.  Set it aside.
Note : Make soup first then cook the noodles.

Procedure

Cut chicken breast into small pieces. Season it with salt, pepper and ½ tsp of cornstarch. Marinade for about an hour.

Season fish cake and prawns with salt and pepper. Set it aside.

Heat up a pot. Add shallots oil. Cook chicken. Add tom yum paste, lemon grass and kaffir lime. Pour about 100 ml of chicken stock, let it simmer for 2 minutes.

Add the balance of chicken stock. When its boil, add tomatoes and all other ingredients except prawns. Let it simmer for 5 minutes, then add prawns and let it cook. Add lime juice and lastly fish sauce. Pour the soup into the noodles, if you like, garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot.