Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, tom kha soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Tom Kha Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Tom Kha Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tom kha soup using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tom Kha Soup:

1. Take 6 cloves Garlic
2. Take Shallots
3. Make ready 5 Tbs Lime juice or 1 lime
4. Get Chilis
5. Get 3 chicken breasts or thighs cut into thin slices. Can sub shrimp
6. Make ready 4 cups quality chicken stock
7. Get 2 Tbs Coconut oil or vegetable oil
8. Take 3 Tbs Brown sugar or coconut aminos
9. Make ready Salt to season chicken
10. Make ready 4 cups full fat coconut milk
11. Make ready 3 Tbs Red curry paste
12. Get 2 Tbs Fish sauce
13. Get Low sodium soy sauce (add last and only if needed)
14. Make ready 2-3 Tbs Garlic red chili sauce or red pepper flakes
15. Prepare Mushrooms 2 8 oz packs
16. Make ready Ginger 4, one inch pieces peeled
17. Get 3 Lemon grass stalks, pound and cut in half
18. Make ready 1 bushel Cilantro
19. Prepare 2 bushels green onion

Instructions to make Tom Kha Soup:

1. Cut chicken into thin pieces about 1 inch in size. Season and set aside.
2. In a medium frying pan heat oil and cook shallots, garlic, tomatoes and chilis until shallots are soft and add to the pan below only once the chicken is done browning.
3. Over medium heat oil in a larger pot or skillet (keep in my you're going to be adding 8 cups of liquid to this pan). Add chicken and brown on either side for 1 minutes or so. You don't want to over cook the chicken at this time as it's going to continue to cook in the soup. Remove the chicken from the pan and set aside.
4. Add chicken stock, lemongrass, red curry paste, and ginger to the chicken pot above and let simmer for 40 minutes.
5. Then add the chicken back in and sliced mushrooms, garlic chili sauce, and coconutmilk to the pot. You can also add in other veggies at this time if you want to add more. Cook for about 5 minutes.
6. Add the lime juice, fish sauce, brown sugar and soy sauce if you choose to use soy sauce. Taste and adjust seasoning as needed.
7. Ladle into bowls and top with chopped green onions and cilantro.

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