Tom Yum Soup – World Foods Taste Team Challenge
This week I’ve been sampling more products from the World Foods range as a member of their Fusion Taste Team.
Challenge #3 was to try out a Tom Yum soup using the World Foods Thai Tom Yum Paste.
Tom Yum is a soup which has quite a distinctive orange colour and is quite fragrant, usually fairly spicy and a touch sour. The World Foods Tom Yum paste is with lemon grass, kaffir lime, galangal, lime juice, fish sauce and chilli.
This one was very quick and easy to make, I just added the Tom Yum sauce to a wok, added some water, brought it to the boil, threw in some prawns (to make a Tom Yum Kung) and used coriander to garnish. It is optional to add coconut milk and I did add a tiny bit towards the end just to soften down the spice a bit. My husband tried it and said “Wow, that’s got a kick to it, lovely” (translate: I love spicy food, why don’t you cook it more often?!” For me, it was really quite spicy so I added more coconut milk. It definitely had a very authentic Thai flavour and was easy to use, so a great store cupboard stand-by.
You could add chicken which makes it a Tom Yum Kai or fish for a Tom Yum Pla. You can add rice to the soup and straw mushrooms too. You can also use to paste to make a fried rice so as a basic paste I would say it is quite versatile.
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Hi there to every body, it
>Thanks Sally, though I'm sure you make your own!
Me too Nazima, had to steck 'em up!
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>lovely soup. I had fun trying to get the prawns to float for the photo!! x
>One of my favourite soups – love Thai spices.
>this looks superb