Thai Chicken Coconut Soup

This light, fragrant, creamy tom kha gai - a classic Thai soup - is an absolute blast of hot, sweet and sour flavours. Serve steaming bowlfuls with little golden corn fritters ready to dunk in sweet chilli sauce.

The ingredient of Thai Chicken Coconut Soup

• 2 lemongrass stems white part only
• 100g small button mushrooms stems trimmed
• 2 chicken breast fillets about 180g each
• 1 2l massel chicken style liquid stock
• 4cm piece ginger peeled cut into matchsticks
• 1 long red chilli thinly sliced
• 2 teaspoons caster sugar
• 400ml coconut milk
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 2 tablespoons lime juice plus wedges to serve
• small handful mint leaves
• small handful thai basil leave see notes

The Instruction of thai chicken coconut soup

• bruise the lemongrass stems with the back of a knife and cut each one in half halve the mushrooms or slice if large cut the chicken breast fillets in half lengthways then thinly slice against the grain
• in a saucepan bring the chicken stock lemongrass ginger chilli and caster sugar to a gentle simmer over medium high heat add the chicken mushrooms and coconut milk
• simmer without boiling for 5 minutes stirring until chicken is cooked add fish sauce and lime juice u2013 the soup should taste hot sour lightly sweet and salty
• ladle the soup chicken and mushrooms into warm bowls then scatter with mint and basil leaves

Nutritions of Thai Chicken Coconut Soup

calories: 314 285 calories
calories: 18 grams fat
calories: 15 grams saturated fat
calories: 10 grams carbohydrates
calories: 9 grams sugar
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calories: 27 grams protein
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calories: 1771 89 milligrams sodium
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