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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