Tom Yum Soup Recipe with step by step pictures. Vegetarian version of tom yum soup recipe made with vegetables, mushrooms and lime juice.
Tom Yum Soup Recipe
I have been skipping my lunch and having soups for lunch. This is one soup which i made today and enjoyed it to the core. I will soon share the cabbage soup, broccoli soup which i made. This is the first time i made this soup and loved it so much. Tom yum is nothing but an authentic Thai spicy and sour soup. There are so many variations of this soup all over the internet, this is my version and it is a veg recipe. Will soon share a non veg version of it.
How to Make Tom Yum Soup Recipe
- Grind the ingredients together for red curry paste till smooth and set aside.
- Heat 1 teaspoon of oil in a pan, add in the curry paste and saute till the raw smell leaves and oil separates from this..Set aside..
- Take water, lemon grass and lime leaves in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Now simmer this for 10 mins to infuse the lemon grass flavour. You can strain this if you want. Now add the stock back into the pan.
- Add in the sauted curry paste along with the oil and mix well.
- Add in mushrooms, tomatoes, spring onion white and mix well. Cook till mushroom is cooked.
- Now add in tofu, green chillies soy sauce, salt, sugar and mix well.
- Add in lemon juice, spring onion green and coriander leaves and mix well.
- Serve hot.
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Tom Yum Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- Water - 4 to 5 cups
- Lemon Grass - 4 short pieces i used dried ones
- Kaffir Lime Leaves - 2 cut into small pieces
- Thai Red Curry Paste - 1.5 tblspn to 2 tblspn
- Oil - 1 tsp
- Spring Onion White Part - from 2
- Spring Onion Green Part - from 2
- Coriander leaves a small handful chopped finely
- Mushrooms - 1 cup sliced
- Tofu - 1 cup cubed
- Soy Sauce - 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Sugar - 1 tsp
- Lemon Juice to taste
- Green Chilli - 1 sliced thinly
- Tomato - 1 small chopped
- For Thai Red curry paste:
- Onion- ½ sliced
- Shallots / Sambar onion - ½ cup
- Dry red chilli - 6
- Ginger - 3 cm piece
- Garlic - 10 cloves
- Coriander seeds - 1 tblspn
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam -1 tsp
- Coriander stems - ½ cup
- Kaffir lime skin / Narthangai - 3 peels
- Lemon Grass - 2 chopped i didn't add
- Salt -1 tsp
- Oil - 3 tblspn
- Water as required
Instructions
- Grind the ingredients together for red curry paste till smooth and set aside.
- Heat 1 teaspoon of oil in a pan, add in the curry paste and saute till the raw smell leaves and oil separates from this..Set aside..
- Take water, lemon grass and lime leaves in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Now simmer this for 10 mins to infuse the lemon grass flavour. You can strain this if you want. Now add the stock back into the pan.
- Add in the sauted curry paste along with the oil and mix well.
- Add in mushrooms, tomatoes, spring onion white and mix well. Cook till mushroom is cooked.
- Now add in tofu, green chillies soy sauce, salt, sugar and mix well.
- Add in lemon juice, spring onion green and coriander leaves and mix well.
- Serve hot.
Tom Yum Soup Recipe Step by Step Pictures
For those who cannot find Thai red curry paste, you can make this from scratch..Here are few pictures of my homemade curry paste from my old post
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| peel the skin of kaffir lime, we call it as narthangai in tamil |
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| Your ingredients for red curry paste |
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| Take it in a blender and make it to a smooth paste by adding water and oil |
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Take oil in a pan |
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| add in red curry paste |
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| mix well |
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| cook till oil separates from it |
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| Take water in a sauce pan |
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| add in lemon grass..i used dried ones...You can add kaffir lime leaves in this as well.. i didn't have any so i didn't add |
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| mix well...bring it to a boil, simmer for 10 to 15 mins.. |
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| Now the water is infused with lemon grass flavour..You can strain this stock, but i left it as it is.. |
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| add in the sauted curry paste |
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| mix well.. |
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| add in mushrooms |
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| add in tomatoes..i used cherry tomatoes |
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| spring onion white part |
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| add in green chillies |
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| season with salt and sugar |
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| cook this till mushroom is done |
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| now add in tofu cubes |
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| some soy sauce |
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| mix well |
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| take it off the heat and add in lemon juice |
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| spring onion green part and coriander leaves |
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| mix well |
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| Serve hot |
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| Taste spicy and delicious.. |
Anonymous
Hii
Love your blog...
Hope you and you family doing good..Everyday it is coming in news, the situation of chennai..so bit worried
Rajasree
Murugan
hi,
This is my favorite.
Thank u for sharing...
The Girl Next Door
Hi, can I use kaffir lime leaves in place of peel? How many can I add?
Aarthi
yes u can. Just add one.