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    Tom Yum Soup Recipe

    Last Updated On: Apr 8, 2025 by Aarthi

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    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..

     
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    Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
     

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    • How to Make Tom Yum Soup Recipe
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    • Tom Yum Soup Recipe
    • Tom Yum Soup Recipe Step by Step Pictures

    How to Make Tom Yum Soup Recipe

    • Grind the ingredients together for red curry paste till smooth and set aside.
    • Heat 1 tsp 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

    Tom Yum Soup Recipe with step by step pictures. Vegetarian version of tom yum soup recipe made with vegetables, mushrooms and lime juice.
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 30 minutes minutes
    Servings: 4 servings

    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 tsp 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 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

    peel the skin of kaffir lime, we call it as narthangai in tamil
    Your ingredients for red curry paste
    Take it in a blender and make it to a 
     smooth paste by adding water and oil
    Take all your ingredients
    Take oil in a pan
    add in red curry paste
    mix well
    cook till oil separates from it
    Take water in a sauce pan
    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
    mix well...bring it to a boil, simmer for 10 to 15 mins..
    Now the water is infused with lemon grass flavour..You can strain this stock, but i left it as it is..
    add in the sauted curry paste
    mix well..
    add in mushrooms
    add in tomatoes..i used cherry tomatoes
    spring onion white part
    add in green chillies
    season with salt and sugar
    cook this till mushroom is done
    now add in tofu cubes
    some soy sauce
    mix well
    take it off the heat and add in lemon juice
    spring onion green part and coriander leaves
    mix well
    Serve hot
    Taste spicy and delicious..
     
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      Hi, can I use kaffir lime leaves in place of peel? How many can I add?

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        yes u can. Just add one.

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